What happened
Bitget launched the third edition of its Anti-Scam Month on Thursday, June 26, 2026, with the release of a co-authored report from blockchain security firm SlowMist titled 'The Evolution of Fraud in the Multi-Asset Era. ' Per BeInCrypto, which carried the announcement at 10:00 UTC, the campaign builds on two prior runs that focused largely on crypto-native scams: pig-butchering rings, phishing kits, fake support desks and address-poisoning attacks.
The 2026 framing is wider. Bitget is positioning fraud as a multi-asset problem that now touches tokenized real-world assets, equities, contracts for difference, self-custody wallets and a growing layer of AI-powered consumer tools. The exchange describes itself as the world's largest Universal Exchange, a label it has leaned into as it has added non-crypto instruments alongside spot and derivatives trading.
SlowMist, the Xiamen-based security firm behind the MistTrack analytics platform, is the technical partner. No new product, listing or enforcement action was disclosed in the launch.
Why it matters
The pitch matters because the surface area for retail fraud has genuinely expanded. Five years ago a scam targeting a crypto user usually meant a fake Telegram admin or a drainer link. In 2026, the same playbook gets stapled onto tokenized stock wrappers, CFD funnels run out of offshore brokers, AI-generated deepfake endorsements and wallet integrations that quietly approve token allowances.
A campaign from a top-five exchange that explicitly names that drift is editorial, not just marketing. It signals that the venues sitting closest to retail flow are seeing the same complaint mix that consumer-protection regulators in the EU, UK and Singapore have been flagging since late 2025. It is also a competitive move.