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2023-3-26 20:38 |
Aiden Pleterski, a 23-year old “crypto prodigy, was abducted and tortured after reportedly scamming investors over $29m origin »
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Many so-called Sam Coins have staged a surprising recovery this month, despite the fact that FTX crypto exchange is still offline while it goes through bankruptcy proceedings and its former big boss – Sam Bankman Fried – is being tried for a variety of criminal charges, including allegedly scamming FTX clients and investors. As the […]
2023-1-26 15:28 | |
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The developer of Mutant Ape Planet has been arrested after allegedly scamming investors out of millions of dollars. The project, which is a knockoff of the original Mutant Ape Yacht Club, made many promises that went unfulfilled.
2023-1-7 02:32 | |
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PGI Global UK has been shut down after allegedly scamming would-be investors of around $709,000 between July 2020 and February 2021.
2022-10-28 14:06 | |
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Dogecoin co-creator Jackson Palmer has once again taken to the Internet to spew his disdain for the cryptocurrency industry. This time, he lashes out at Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. In an interview with Business Insider, the Adobe specialist stated that billionaire entrepreneur Cuban and other prominent investors have “drunk the Kool-Aid” regarding cryptocurrencies and […]
2022-9-10 18:24 | |
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Less gullible retail investors and falling asset prices have made scamming a less enticing endeavor, but the tsunami of new DeFi applications has hackers licking their lips.
2022-8-17 06:51 | |
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The U.S. markets regulator filed a cease-and-desist order in a district court against Rathnakishore Giri and his companies over allegations of scamming investors interested in digital assets.
2022-8-12 20:28 | |
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Ruja Ignatova has been added to the FBIs Ten Most Wanted List for allegedly scamming investors out of $4 billion through OneCoin. Wanted for $4 Billion Scam The hunt for...
2022-7-1 22:27 | |
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A South African man has been charged with fraud in the Maryland District Court for allegedly scamming $28 million from over 1,000 investors. Dennis Jali, a former resident of Maryland, targeted church-going African immigrants, promising them guaranteed returns on his supposed bitcoin (BTC) and foreign currency investment pool.
2020-9-5 06:45 | |
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Co-creator of crypto company Centra Tech Inc. intends to admit guilt to attracting investors to the ICO, including celebrities, and duping them of more than $25 mln
2020-7-14 16:02 | |
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A new court filing reveals that the self-proclaimed Michael Jordan of crypto trading has been charged with scamming over 100 investors out of $7. 5 million. The investors include former professional MLB players, raising the stakes and bringing additional public attention to the case.
2020-2-7 22:00 | |
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By CCN: Konstantin Ignatov, the CEO of the multi-billion-dollar “crypto” Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud. According to court documents, Ignatov entered the plea during a May 28 preliminary hearing via conference call.
2019-6-8 01:20 | |
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A man has been arrested in the Netherlands for allegedly scamming investors out of over $2.2 million in a fake bitcoin mining scheme.
2019-5-21 20:30 | |
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The AriseBank CEO, who faced up to 120 years in jail, entered a guilty plea for a count of securities fraud that implicates him for deceiving investors of AriseBank when he was at its helm. This according to a recent report from Dallas News.
2019-3-22 16:00 | |
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The CEO of AriseBank has pleaded guilty to scamming $4. 2 million from hundreds of investors. Jared Rice Sr. was initially looking at over 120 years behind bars for all the charges he faced. However, according to a report by Dallas News, he only faces 20 years for one count of securities fraud.
2019-3-22 01:48 | |
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US law-enforcement agencies nail a co-founder of the OneCoin platform, accusing him of scamming investors in different countries and giving false promises
2019-3-27 13:50 | |
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Police in Mumbai have busted a gang allegedly involved in a cryptocurrency scam that amassed an estimated 1 billion rupees (nearly $14 million). The gang targeted people by launching a cryptocurrency called Cashcoin and sold it to investors, promising to double their money.
2019-2-19 05:40 | |
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With Bitcoin up 2. 7 percent over the past week, the cryptocurrency market closed in the green this weekend. But is the trend here to stay or are the bears coming to leave investors bleeding yet again? Let’s take a look at the news and find out.
2019-2-18 13:09 | |
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Older generations have been through a substantial rollercoaster with the financial industry in their lifetime. However, as the evolving world changes with the presence of cryptocurrency, the territory seems new and unfamiliar, leading scam artists to take advantage of these investors that are new to cryptocurrency. As The Block reports, this is exactly the case […]
2019-2-11 04:09 | |
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On January 7, 2019, The South China Morning Post reported that several residents had been duped of over HK$3 million (~$382,000) in a crypto mining scheme by entrepreneur Wong Ching-kit. Backstory: Face of a Mining Operation Wong Ching-kit, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, has been accused of running a scam by several Hong Kong residents who accuse him of making away with just under.
2019-1-9 12:00 | |
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Jared Rice Sr. , CEO of the Dallas-based bank AriseBank, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday, November 28, 2018, and charged with six counts of securities fraud and wire fraud.
2018-11-30 23:03 | |
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The company is using the name and the address of the FCA-registered private equity firm GMT Communications Partners in what the regulator considers an attempt at scamming investors.
2018-11-16 20:58 | |
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Even though the cryptocurrency industry continues to grow and expand, some key problems persist. Oyster has been an interesting example in this regard, as this exit scamming project is still going through a hefty price increase.
2018-11-1 11:20 | |
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Less than two months from today, NASDAQ and Bakkt are slated to launch their cryptocurrency trading tools to institutional investors. At the same time, major projects continue to exit scam and defraud their communities.
2018-10-31 06:32 | |
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Mounting pump and dump schemes, scamming cryptocurrency investors with phony embezzlements, false claims, and misleading allegations, all are among a list of actions Ezekiel Osborne is suspected to have carried out.
2018-10-30 20:29 | |
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Jordan Belfort’s story of stockbroking and scamming investors is one of the most popular tales from Wall Street. Known as the “Wolf of Wall Street,” his story was depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio in a movie by the same name.
2018-8-28 20:48 | |
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Jordan Belfort, a former Wall Street scammer now an author has pounced on bitcoin saying those investing in it have been brainwashed. In an interview with CNBC, Belfort who had spent 22 months in jail for scamming customers said bitcoin still thrives only because more investors have been “brainwashed” to invest in it, stressing that […] The post Wolf Of Wall Street Claims Bitcoin Is Vanishing Soon, How Possible? appeared first on ZyCrypto.
2018-8-28 17:48 | |
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The ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort has recently spoken out against Bitcoin as the product that is going to slaughter its innocent investors. Belfort is best known as the penny-stock broker who did time for scamming investors.
2018-8-28 13:30 | |
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Notorious penny stock broker and convicted scammer, Jordan Belfort, has a warning for Bitcoin investors, claiming that his experience scamming innocent people gives him a greater ability to spot scams.
2018-8-28 21:00 | |
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Wall Street Legend Jordan Belfort Calls Bitcoin a Trap Jordan Belfort really is the stuff of legends. The multi-millionaire first hit international news when he was imprisoned on several charges involving the scamming of investors.
2018-8-27 20:55 | |
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South Korean police have raided the offices of Shinil Group, which is suspected of scamming investors with the launch of an ICO backed by gold reportedly coming from a sunken Russian battleship.
2018-8-9 16:51 | |
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Fair Oaks Crypto is using the name and address of FCA-registered asset manager Fair Oaks Capital in what the FCA considers an attempt at scamming UK investors.
2018-8-8 13:34 | |
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Amit Bhardwaj, the Ponzi scheme kingpin accused of scamming thousands by promising outlandish returns on investments in Bitcoins, has offered to pay back investors their initial investments in Indian rupees even as one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Zebpay, has been roped in to help with the investigation. What Was Bharadwaj's Ponzi Scheme? Over […]
2018-7-20 13:06 | |
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Scammers are working overtime to take advantage of the still-hot ICO market creating counterfeit token sale websites that are scamming unwary investors. We talked about this briefly in our scam report, but since then, counterfeit token sale sites have become a growing threat to the integrity of the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
2018-7-9 16:00 | |
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