Bitget Launches Anti-Scam Month as Multi-Asset Fraud Losses Hit $442B

Bitget has launched Anti-Scam Month 2026, its annual global security initiative running throughout June. Under the theme "More Assets, Stronger Shield: Stay Safe in the Multi-Asset Era," the campaign aims to educate users on emerging scams as the platform pushes toward a unified trading ecosystem covering tokenized assets, crypto, precious metals, and AI-related products. The "unified ecosystem" pitch is ambitious, but apparently the threat landscape called for it.

Interpol's recent global financial threat assessment reports that over $442 billion was siphoned from the global economy in 2025 alone. The agency attributes part of the surge to AI-driven scams and the rest to the rise of tokenized products in mainstream trading environments. The fallout spans crypto wallets, phishing systems, fake applications, AI-generated scams, and identity manipulation techniques — a buffet of attack vectors, none of them appetizing.

Bitget has observed Anti-Scam Month every June as part of efforts to protect users while the exchange expands access to crypto, tokenized stocks, commodities, forex, ETFs, and precious metals. Past campaigns rolled out tools like the Anti-Scam Hub, Smarter Eyes Challenge, and Antiphishing Codes. This year, Bitget says it aims to go deeper with a multi-part security article and video series covering SMS spoofing, fake applications, phishing systems, malicious smart contracts, and high-risk token schemes. The series will also pay special attention to rising fraud patterns in AI-driven systems and tokenized real-world assets — because, apparently, the scams needed an upgrade too.

In the campaign's final phase, Bitget will release anti-scam reports covering multi-asset trading and AI-related financial risks. The "Universal Exchange" won't author them alone — on-chain security agencies, real-world asset institutions, and AI industry partners are on the co-author list. X Spaces bringing together security researchers, ecosystem contributors, and community participants will also be hosted.

According to Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, the rationale behind the campaign is the i