Wu Shuo learned that according to Bitcoin News, Diosnel Alarcon, the head of Paraguay's National Police Cybercrime Department, stated that in 2023 and 2024, cryptocurrency scams and Ponzi schemes transferred over $4 billion in funds. Unscrupulous intermediaries created fake platforms as bait, first depositing a small amount of profit into the victim's account, and it was not until several months later that the victim realized they had been scammed.