Lead researcher Dr Di Wang said that crypto users share many concerning personality traits, making it easier for them to exploit people.
The collector shared their story online following the devastating mistake.
A 12-year-old boy has built an NFT collection worth £3 million after learning to code when he was just five years old.
She lost hundreds of thousand of dollars in the scam
Erik Finman, who is now 22, says he was once told to work at McDonald's but instead invested in Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency company Coinbase spent millions on the 60-second Super Bowl slot, but they might have been victims of their own success
She was missing login details for her bitcoin wallet after the value had risen dramatically
Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife, Heather Morgan, allegedly laundered around 25,000 of the stolen Bitcoin over the past five years
Justin Bieber's latest ape NFT purchase has certainly raised a few eyebrows
The YouTuber didn't seem too concerned about losing such a large sum of money when he told his followers the story