2021-2-18 08:43 |
The New York Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against crypto investment platform Coinseed for allegedly defrauding investors and selling a token that remains unlisted three years later. origin »
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South Korea authorities recently sentenced top executives of V Global, a cryptocurrency exchange, for defrauding investors.
2023-1-2 13:29 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a suit against Chicago Crypto Capital (CCC) for allegedly defrauding investors of $1. 5 million by issuing unregistered BXY tokens during the 2018 ICO boom.
2022-9-15 12:00 | |
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A Serbian national has been extradited to the United States to face charges of defrauding investors out of more than $70 million through a cryptocurrency mining and binary options scam. Antonije Stojilkovic, 32, and six accomplices, who were all arrested between July and October 2020, faces up to 20 years in federal prison if convicted. […]
2021-2-9 09:30 | |
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged three individuals for allegedly defrauding hundreds of retail investors of over $11 million through their company Bitcoiin2Gen. SEC alleges that the inThe post SEC charges three in ICO fraud, once promoted by Steven Seagal appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-2-2 20:30 | |
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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 class-action lawsuit has been filed against a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining company. The suit cites a report claiming that the business is “completely fraudulent,” with nonexistent bitcoin mining operations.
2021-1-25 14:15 | |
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A number of masterminds from the Plustoken scam were sentenced to 11 years in prison for defrauding cryptocurrency investors. Last week, on November 19, a court ruling had shown the Chinese government said that it seized over $4 billion in crypto assets from the Plustoken scam.
2020-12-2 19:30 | |
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Coinspeaker NKLA Stock Tanks 25% as Nikola Faces Allegations of Fraud and Misleading InvestorsThe latest report from Hindenburg Research accusses Nikola for defrauding investors about the preparedness of its hydrogen-fuel technology.
2020-9-24 14:04 | |
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A new liquidity mining pool DeFi project, Yfdexf. Finance has exited the market after defrauding investors of $20 million in total funds locked in its protocol. Yfdexf conducted a two days major advertising campaign on different platforms, including Twitter and Telegram, with promised giveaways for retweets and hashtags.
2020-9-10 11:26 | |
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The New York man asked investors for loans for what he called a low-risk investment, but the DOJ said most of the money was sent to offshore gambling sites.
2020-7-16 12:27 | |
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The New York man asked investors for loans for what he called a low-risk investment, but the DOJ said most of the money was sent to offshore gambling sites.
2020-7-16 12:27 | |
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One of four men charged with defrauding investors of over $722 million through a long-running cryptomining scheme has pleaded guilty to charges against him.
2020-7-11 12:22 | |
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In a court filing submitted to the U. S District Court of Utah, the SEC is moving to freeze the assets of three participants in a cryptocurrency scam (Daniel F. Putnam, Jean Paul Ramirez Rico, Angel A.
2020-6-8 22:36 | |
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The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.
2020-4-25 18:37 | |
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Plaintiffs claim Wells Fargo Advisors did not check on the activities of a financial advisor accused of defrauding 150 investors.
2020-4-6 13:00 | |
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The SEC charged a former Texas pastor and his wife for allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors through an alkaline water-backed cryptocurrency TeshuaCoin.
2020-4-5 22:33 | |
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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 CFTC is charging Breonna Clark and Venture Capital Investments with defrauding investors by pretending to run a commodity pool invested in crypto and foreign currency contracts.
2020-2-15 00:59 | |
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Michael Ackerman and unnamed business partners allegedly defrauded investors of $33M in a crypto-trading scheme targeting doctors.
2020-2-12 23:59 | |
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Coinspeaker NYOAG Plainly Says It Will Blow Up Bitfinex for Defrauding InvestorsThe USDT "token distribution" may start changing in next days due to the bad news for Bitfinex and Tether.
2019-12-14 11:36 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Shopin and its founder Eran Eyal with fraud after a $42 million initial coin offering. The SEC announced Wednesday that Eyal had been charged with defrauding investors by selling unregistered securities in the form of Shopin Tokens.
2019-12-12 00:55 | |
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Bitfinex announced its intent to dismiss a Tether-related class action lawsuit, calling its allegations “ridiculous”. Filed on Oct. 6, the lawsuit alleges that Bitfinex and Tether operated a “sophisticated” scheme aimed at defrauding investors and manipulating the market.
2019-11-17 22:00 | |
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The CFTC has reissued previous advice to help the public evaluate the legitimacy of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investment opportunities. The warning comes in the wake of a takedown of a company suspected of defrauding $11 million from investors.
2019-10-19 08:46 | |
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has taken action against Circle Society, Corp and its founder, David Gilbert Saffron for defrauding people through a Ponzi scheme disguised as a bitcoin-powered $11 million binary options trading project.
2019-10-18 09:00 | |
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The SEC has obtained a final judgment against PlexCoin’s fraudulent ICO and its proprietors, finding the defendants in the case guilty for violating antifraud provisions of Federal security laws.
2019-10-3 13:00 | |
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Law enforcement agents in the Phillippines while acting on a tip from the Chinese Embassy, have arrested 273 Chinese nationals for allegedly defrauding over 1,000 investors in a cryptocurrency investment scam, reports Inquirer on September 16, 2019.
2019-9-17 09:00 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced pressing charges against Bitqyck Inc. and its founders for defrauding investors in securities offerings of two digital assets and operating an unregistered exchange.
2019-8-29 19:18 | |
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The U.S Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against Veritaseum founder, Reginald Middleton, for defrauding investors during the ICO launch of VERI tokens in April to May 2017. In a post released by research firm, Hindenburg Research, the commission will further charge two companies – New York registered, Veritaseum Inc. and Delaware registered, Veritaseum […]
2019-8-13 18:21 | |
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has indicted a Pennsylvanian man for allegedly defrauding $7 million from prospective Bitcoin investors through an effectively fake “escrow” service.
2019-7-26 15:23 | |
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U.S. prosecutors have charged the head of a bitcoin escrow company with defrauding investors for $7 million.
2019-7-26 23:45 | |
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The operator of BitFunder and WeExchange will serve 14 months in prison after defrauding investors and misrepresenting a hack.
2019-7-13 21:59 | |
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Less than a year ago, Homero Joshua Garza was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to pay restitution of over $9 million by the U.
2019-6-26 01:30 | |
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The US Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has accused a British Bitcoin and crypto asset trading platform of defrauding investors. The company in question promised to trade various crypto assets trade on behalf of investors.
2019-6-19 02:00 | |
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Crypto Pyramid Creator With Over 300 Fraud Cases Nabbed By Russian Police The Russian Police has arrested the creator of a crypto pyramid scheme. Accused of defrauding investors through his scam scheme, the pyramid creator the country’s ministry of internal affairs reports that he has over 300 fraud cases leveled against him. The scammer who […]
2019-5-29 22:02 | |
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Tether has been the center of rumors and speculation for a long time; however, the rumors and speculations reached a peak when NYAG, Letitia James, filed a lawsuit against Bitfinex and Tether for defrauding investors by covering up losses.
2019-5-21 20:53 | |
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Estonia-based crypto firm Paxful Inc. has been accused of defrauding Nigerian investors out of millions of dollars worth of crypto through arbitrary account closures
2019-4-8 12:38 | |
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The operator of New York-based company CabaggeTech has been accused of defrauding investors out of more than $200,000 in cash and cryptocurrency, according to a nine-count indictment unsealed in federal court in New York, on Tuesday.
2019-3-27 14:40 | |
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The owner of a firm called CabbageTech has been arrested and charged with duping investors out of over $200,000 in cryptocurrency and cash.
2019-3-27 12:20 | |
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AriseBank CEO Jared Rice, who faced 120 years in prison for defrauding investors of $4 million in a cryptocurrency scam, has pleaded guilty. The cryptopreneur plead guilty yesterday morning after standing in front of judges in Texas, local outlet Dallas News reports.
2019-3-21 17:54 | |
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On March 8, the Department of Justice and the U. S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced that officials have indicted two of the top leaders of the notorious Onecoin project.
2019-3-9 14:25 | |
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Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
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These may be the first exchange operators to be imprisoned for wash trading.
2019-1-22 22:24 | |
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In Taipei, a group of Bitcoin con artists have been charged with running an elaborate cryptocurrency scam that defrauded local and foreign investors out of millions of dollars. Authorities formally charged a 47-year-old man surnamed Lin, along with six accomplices, with violating Taiwan‘s Banking and Multi-Level Marketing Supervision acts with a fake Bitcoin investment scam, reports FocusTaiwan.
2019-1-18 16:03 | |
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Silver Miller, a United States-based securities law firm committed to investment fraud and consumer class action cases, has joined forces with Levi Korsinsky to file a class action lawsuit against Nano (NANO) and the controversial BitGrail cryptocurrency exchange for allegedly defrauding investors according to a press release on January 7, 2018.
2019-1-9 17:00 | |
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Silver Miller, a US-based cryptocurrency Investor law firm has filed a lawsuit against Jeremy Spence for allegedly organizing a Ponzi scheme disguised as an investment hedge fund claiming to be managing $5 million worth of investors assets, reports Finance Magnates on December 27, 2018.
2018-12-28 03:00 | |
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Last year, crypto KYC and AML requirements came bursting onto the scene with thunderous applause and approbation. Many traders felt like the ICO sector was rife with scammers and con artists. In this sense, they believed there would be redemption through government.
2018-12-24 03:30 | |
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39-year-old Maksim Zaslavskiy, the owner of REcoin and DRC World, plead guilty before a New York federal judge.
2018-11-17 22:07 | |
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A Brooklyn-based businessman turned cryptocurrency huckster faces up to five years in prison for orchestrating two monstrously phony initial coin offerings (ICOs) last year. Maksim Zaslavskiy, a former institutional developer and “businessman,” plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud before a New York district court yesterday, reports FinanceFeeds.
2018-11-16 14:18 | |
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The CFTC is cracking down on fraud in the cryptosphere.
2018-11-14 03:06 | |
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Last week, CoinDesk received documents in response to a New York state Freedom of Information Law request about the details of Tether’s reserves. These documents were released two years after our original filing in 2021 and only after a full-blown legal fight with Tether, which CoinDesk won in February.
Brooklyn-based crypto trading platform Coin Cafe is paying back $4.3 million to defrauded investors, according to a Thursday statement from the New York Attorney General’s office, which accused the company of misleading customers about “exorbitant and undisclosed” fees.
New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James has proposed a new state bill to regulate the cryptocurrency industry further, as she believes the space is enduring “rampant fraud and dysfunction”. This new set of crypto regulations would impose independent public audits of crypto exchanges, ensuring that New York residents do not lose their cryptocurrency investments to deceptive business practices.
The bill follows legal suits pursued by Letitia James in connection to crypto companies like Celsius, CoinEx and Nexo.
New York Attorney General (NYAG) Letitia James, claimed in court that ethereum (ETH) is security and exchanges should register it before offering it for trading.
New York Attorney General sues CoinEx as the US regulators continue their strict stance against Web3 firm. The post US Crypto Clampdown Continues as New York Attorney General Sues CoinEx appeared first on BeInCrypto.
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