2022-5-7 21:44 |
A Florida man has been indicted in a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme origin »
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged 11 people tied to the alleged $300 million crypto Ponzi scheme Forsage with fraud on Monday.
2022-8-2 20:12 | |
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On Friday, the U.S. DOJ indicted the CEO of Mining Capital Coin (MCC) for allegedly scheming a $62 million global investment fraud. The post U.S. DOJ Indicts Mining Capital Coin CEO in $62 Million Investment Fraud Scheme appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-5-7 23:24 | |
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Asa Saint Clair was convicted of wire fraud for devising an investment scheme that swindled hundreds of thousands of dollars from more than 60 victims.
2022-3-18 19:03 | |
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A federal grand jury in San Diego charged the founder of a cryptocurrency startup Friday in a broad indictment that claims he cheated investors of more than $2. 4 billion in a Ponzi scam. Prosecutors say the fraud is the largest of its sort ever prosecuted criminally.
2022-2-28 15:33 | |
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Joseph O’Connor indicted on a raft of wire fraud, computer hacking, money laundering and identify theft counts.
2021-11-5 01:15 | |
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A Swedish man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the U. S. for an investment fraud scheme involving cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. He defrauded thousands of victims of more than $16 million.
2021-7-9 20:00 | |
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A social media influencer known for “cash giveaways” has failed to show the money in alleged Bitcoin wire fraud scheme.
2021-3-25 08:17 | |
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United States Department of Justice today sentenced Sohrab “Sam” Sharma, one of the founders of the ‘Centra Tech’ crypto project, to serve eight years for an “ICO fraud scheme.” AuthoritieThe post Centra Tech Inc co-founder sentenced to 8 years in prison for ICO fraud appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-3-6 01:30 | |
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The scheme allegedly included offering bitcoin at “half market price.”
2021-2-6 20:35 | |
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Two men have been accused of defrauding 3 women in a scam disguised as a bitcoin investment scheme. The pair allegedly swindled more than 150,000 Malaysian ringgits (almost $37,000) from their victims and now face a plethora of punishments under the country’s stiff penal code if convicted.
2021-2-4 14:15 | |
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United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a cryptocurrency trader for allegedly being involved in a ponzi scheme defrauding more than $5 million from over 170 investors. The accusThe post US SEC charges crypto trader 'Coin Signals' in $5 million fraud case appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-1-27 02:00 | |
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A petition has been submitted to the European Parliament, asking to implement a scheme to compensate crypto-related victims. The crimes mentioned in the petition 0421/2020 include fraud, piracy, and extortion.
2021-1-19 13:30 | |
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The U. S. has sentenced a cryptocurrency exchange owner to 10 years in prison. He “knowingly and intentionally engaged in business practices designed to both assist fraudsters in laundering the proceeds of their fraud and to shield himself from criminal liability,” the Department of Justice alleges.
2021-1-16 22:05 | |
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United States Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Southern District of New York (SDNY) extradited a member of an alleged AirBit Club ponzi scheme for “internationally coordinated fraud and money lauThe post US DoJ extradites alleged AirBit Club Ponzi operator from Panama appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-1 01:30 | |
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Ledger wallet owners have fell victim to a scheme that defrauded them out of 1,150,000 XRP. A community-run fraud awareness group xrplorer unveiled this news on November 2, noting that the scam leveraged a phishing email that instructed users to use a fake version of the Ledger website, which contained a homoglyph in the URL.
2020-11-7 22:58 | |
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Working in collaboration, U. S. and Brazilian authorities have reportedly seized $24 million in crypto linked to an internet fraud scheme. Referred to as “Operation Egypto,” the investigation was led by Brazilian authorities with American law enforcement aid.
2020-11-6 19:26 | |
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The CEO of Arbistar the Spanish investment company, Santiago Fuentes, has been arrested and arraigned on charges of fraud, belonging to a criminal organization and money laundering. Fuentes, who has been in hiding since September, was arrested at one of his properties in the south of Tenerife.
2020-10-24 22:15 | |
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A movie is being made about Onecoin’s cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme starring Oscar winner Kate Winslet. This Hollywood MGM movie is based on a true story told by a victim of the cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
2020-10-11 14:15 | |
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According to a press release published on Monday, Sep 28, a Bulgarian national has been found guilty in a U. S. court for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. The person in question, Rossen Iossifov, is the 53-year-old Bulgarian owner of cryptocurrency exchange ‘RG Coins.
2020-9-29 17:05 | |
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The owner of a Bulgarian crypto exchange has been convicted of providing money laundering services to a Eastern European cyber fraud syndicate.
2020-9-29 04:50 | |
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Imagine engaging in a trust dependent relationship with a well-known cryptocurrency investment company that has all the bells and whistles of a successful investment firm. They’ve got an impressive trading portfolio, and the promise of a substantial investment return through the use of a sophisticated cryptocurrency arbitration trading bot to ensure a higher payout.
2020-9-27 17:02 | |
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The chief executive of cyber fraud prevention company, NS8, has been arrested for humbugging $123 mln out of the company's investors
2020-9-18 14:26 | |
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U. S. Department of Justice charged five Chinese citizens for launching malware that led to the crypto-jacking of computers to mine cryptocurrency. However, the indictment did not mention which cryptocThe post U.
2020-9-16 20:44 | |
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The officers of Chinese "white hat" firm Chengdu 404 allegedly hit computer networks around the world.
2020-9-17 19:12 | |
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Following the arrest of 109 accused members of the $6 billion Ponzi scheme called Plustoken, six alleged members of the team were prosecuted according to a court filing submitted on Monday. The prosecutors say the individuals are “suspected in organizing and leading criminal pyramid schemes.
2020-9-10 03:00 | |
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Former Bitsonar employee Yaroslav Shtadchenko has filed an FBI complaint accusing the crypto investment firm of operating like a pyramid scheme.
2020-9-7 20:00 | |
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A Bitclub Network Ponzi scheme promoter has admitted to charges of selling unregistered securities and to subscribing to a false tax return in connection with his role in the $722 million fraud scam.
2020-9-7 02:45 | |
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US CFTC regulator insists that the director of the "Control-Finance" crypto fraud scheme Benjamin Reynolds pay a fine of $429 mln
2020-8-21 18:13 | |
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U. S. authorities have charged the organizers of the cryptocurrency-based investment scheme AirBit Club with fraud and money laundering. According to an announcement by the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the defendants are being charged for, “their roles in an internationally coordinated fraud and money laundering ring involved in defrauding individuals through investments in AirBit Club.
2020-8-20 16:21 | |
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Two U. S. states have issued emergency cease and desist orders to South African firms and a South African national promoting a cryptocurrency debit card scheme. The companies claim that the card is like a traditional Mastercard but the states say the scheme is fraudulent.
2020-8-17 21:40 | |
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U.S. authorities are trying to return $6.5 million in bitcoin and tether to the victims of an alleged Ponzi scheme.
2020-8-3 12:00 | |
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A Romanian man admitted Thursday to conspiring to engage in wire fraud and selling unregistered securities linked to Bitclub Network, a cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme worth at least $722 million.
2020-7-11 16:15 | |
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“What happened at Quadriga was an old-fashioned fraud wrapped in modern technology,” said the Ontario Securities Commission in an investigation. The 10-month long investigation into the exchange by the country’s biggest securities regulator revealed that the collapse of the Canadian cryptocurrency trading platform QuadrigaCX was because of a Ponzi scheme operated by its founder Gerald […]
2020-6-12 17:20 | |
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The owner of Romanian crypto exchange CoinFlux has admitted to laundering money in a fraudulent scheme involving fake eBay ads and a car wash.
2020-6-13 15:53 | |
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Quadriga collapsed because of fraud committed by Gerald Cotten, who operated the exchange like a “Ponzi scheme,” according to Canadian authorities. Quadriga’s Collapse Quadriga collapsed in 2019 following the death... The post Quadriga Was a Ponzi Scheme, According to Canadian Authorities appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-6-12 06:47 | |
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Swedish government demands answers from Ukraine regarding a Kyiv-based alleged fraud scheme
2020-3-5 18:59 | |
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2019 was another banner year for crypto fraud that will continue to adversely impact prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum going forward as Ponzi scheme PlusToken unwinds. Although some of its perpetrators have already been jailed in China, active wallets suggest that the entire crime ring hasn’t been arrested.
2020-2-27 06:41 | |
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Gemcoin mastermind faces 10-year prison sentence over $147 million cryptocurrency scheme
2020-2-20 07:20 | |
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Steve Chen agreed to plead guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the $147 million Gemcoin scheme.
2020-2-20 00:26 | |
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The CFTC has charged a Colorado individual for allegedly defrauding investors out of more than $500K via a crypto trading scheme
2020-2-16 19:32 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against an Ohio-based businessman, Michael W. Ackerman on Tuesday who allegedly orchestrated a cryptocurrency scheme to defraud about 150 investors including many physicians.
2020-2-13 00:27 | |
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Investigators take down fraudulent crypto and gold investment scheme
2020-2-1 19:11 | |
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Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer, prosecutors in Frankfurt revealed this week. The case is part of multiple investigations carried out across Germany, the hardest hit country in a notorious tax fraud scandal known as the Cum-ex Files.
2020-1-22 19:40 | |
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In the last couple of days, Chinese media have reported on police forces in one province of the vast Asian country seizing close to 7,000 mining rigs using stolen electricity and in another province arresting 72 multi-level marketing scheme operators for alleged fraud.
2019-12-25 02:00 | |
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In the world of cryptocurrency, scams and fraud have become commonplace as new, unwitting retail investors enter the market and with huge expectations and limited sense of how to wade around the space.
2019-12-12 02:00 | |
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Matthew Goettsche, Jobadiah Weeks, and Joseph Abel have all been charged with fraud by US District Court prosecutors regarding their cryptocurrency company, BitClub Network. The three men allegedly used the company as a Ponzi scheme to defraud investors of $722 million.
2019-12-12 16:10 | |
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U.S. authorities have arrested three members of BitClub Network, alleging the mining pool is a long-running Ponzi scheme.
2019-12-11 23:27 | |
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Brazilian police have shut down a purported bitcoin investment scheme they allege stole 1.5 billion Brazilian reals.
2019-12-10 16:33 | |
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After years of fraud, OneCoin’s website finally goes dark
2019-12-3 19:41 | |
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