2024-1-30 19:31 |
A UK court is trialing a British-Chinese woman for laundering $6B in Bitcoin from a Chinese financial fraud. The post This China Bitcoin (BTC) Fraud Dwarfs Recent Crypto Crime Stats appeared first on BeInCrypto. origin »
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The four-day trial of Alexander Vinnik, 41, alleged to have used ransomware in a $157 million (135 million euros) bitcoin fraud that involved 200 victims, began in Paris on Monday. The Russian man who is wanted both in the US and Russia faces up to ten years in prison over charges of extortion, money laundering, […] The post BTC-e Exchange Operator’s Trail for Bitcoin Fraud Begins in Paris first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-10-21 21:01 | |
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Suspected of a BTC fraud, the alleged owner of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik will start his long-awaited trial in Paris today. The trial begins after Vinnik was arrested The post Trial of Alexander Vinnik, accused of Bitcoin fraud, begins in Paris today appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-19 18:30 | |
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Euro Pacific Bank, founded by gold bug and bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff, is reportedly under investigation by the tax authorities of five countries. The bank’s customers allegedly include several tax fraud masterminds and a Russian syndicate described by the FBI as the world’s worst cybercrime group.
2020-10-19 16:15 | |
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The CFTC continues its roll of crypto announcements this week in a recent fraud bust-up.
2020-10-4 00:28 | |
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Romania’s National Agency for the Management of Seized Assets (ANABI) announced today that it would begin auctioning off bitcoin and ether, that were confiscated as part of an undisclosed fraud caseThe post Romania to auction confiscated bitcoin and ether appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-3 22:57 | |
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The head of the Volantis escrow company faces up to 10 years in prison for defrauding customers.
2020-10-3 18:38 | |
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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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A California judge has dismissed the $200 million in damages claim against the telecom giant AT&T for alleged negligence and fraud. The judge still ruled the telecom company had to answer the lawsuit by Michael Terpin for enabling the theft of $24 million worth of his cryptocurrency after a company agent gave his sim card […] The post Judge Dismisses $200M Damages Claim in SIM-Swap Crypto Lawsuit Against AT&T appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-9-11 17:00 | |
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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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The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency raided Bitcoin exchange Bithumb to execute search and seizure orders based on fraud allegations.
2020-9-3 13:54 | |
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The aim is a comprehensive database of information gleaned from previous hacks and fraud used to proactively fight future ones. The platform supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRX and EOS blockchains.
2020-8-27 16:00 | |
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A noted master scammer and serial con artist Peter Foster has been arrested for multiple money laundering charges, including the theft of $1. 73 million worth of bitcoins. Foster stole the said amount of bitcoins from a Hong Kong businessman named Konstantinos Stylianopoulos.
2020-8-26 00:24 | |
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Met’s Proactive Money Laundering Team seized Bitcoin funds worth thousands of pounds from a woman in the UK after a search warrant revealed her involvement in fraud and money laundering. According to a report by the Metropolitan Police, the detectives had been investigating the suspect and established that she was managing large sums fraudulently obtained. […]
2020-8-16 15:20 | |
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Investors who put their funds in OneCoin in what later proved to be a Bitcoin scam have agreed to a settlement with scam co-mastermind Konstantin Ignatov
2020-8-8 18:46 | |
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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 DC Federal court just said that Bitcoin is money. Specifically, the ruling concluded that BTC is covered under the Washington, D. C, Money Transmitters Act. The reason Bitcoin was being discussed in the Federal courts was a fraud and money laundering case that involved Bitcoin.
2020-7-25 11:17 | |
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Two Nigerian scammers were held last week after hatching an elaborate fraud to steal “$435 million around the world” using illicit emails, luxury brand showoffs, and Bitcoin. The post Rolls-Royce, Gucci-flaunting scammers caught after FBI analyzes Bitcoin trail appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2020-7-15 00:16 | |
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Texas' securities watchdog ordered Mirror Trading International to cease operations, alleging the South African bitcoin and forex "investor club" is a multilevel marketing scam.
2020-7-9 22:46 | |
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Randall Joseph Smail faces up to 30 years in prison for lying to a bank about having $640,000 in bitcoin to get a loan.
2020-7-9 20:19 | |
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Bitcoin found itself competing with traditional safe-haven gold all over again as authorities in China uncovered a $2 billion fraud. Kingold, one of the mainland’s most significant gold processing firms, allegedly collateralized 83 tons of fake yellow metal bars to secure 20 billion yuan (~$2.
2020-6-30 11:12 | |
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Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist behind one of the biggest Washington lobbying scandals as portrayed in the feature film Casino Jack, has been charged in connection with AML bitcoin cryptocurrency. He faces returning to jail after previously serving three and a half years in prison.
2020-6-29 21:05 | |
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Abramoff and the founder of AML Bitcoin face charges for fraud in misrepresenting the token’s compliance, with the founder himself facing jail time for money laundering.
2020-6-26 23:23 | |
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Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder of AML Bitcoin, was indicted on wire fraud and money laundering charges related in part to an initial coin offering conducted in 2017 and 2018.
2020-6-26 20:44 | |
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Robust and effective compliance programs for virtual asset exchanges such as Bitcoin of America, which owns and operates a crypto exchange platform as well as a nationwide network of bitcoin ATM locations, isn’t simply a matter of operating a system for CIP, KYC, and AML procedures.
2020-6-20 16:30 | |
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A fraud victim who had his BTC taken from a hardware storage device and asked the scammers to send him some back, has left Crypto Twitter, according to Adam Back
2020-6-18 15:49 | |
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Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles insists that the 80,000 Bitcoin that Dr. Wright claims were stolen from the exchange, citing expert support.
2020-6-17 20:47 | |
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Two Romanian individuals pled guilty to the charges, says US Department of Justice The... The post 15 defendants plead guilty to fraud and money laundering techniques that used Bitcoin appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-6-13 15:11 | |
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Craig Wright cannot catch a break. The 50-year-old computer scientist and self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator was caught red-faced on Monday after a tweet revealed hundreds of Bitcoin addresses – claimed to be owned by Wright – were signed off with a contrary message.
2020-5-27 15:00 | |
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Signed messages claiming Craig Wright is a fraud were sent from 145 Bitcoin addresses Wright listed were his in the Tulip Trust. The addresses seemed to have belonged to an early Bitcoin miner and have prompted a slew of accusations against Wright from some of the industry’s most influential figures. Early Bitcoin Miner Calls Craig...
2020-5-26 21:00 | |
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Not too long ago, news.Bitcoin.com reported on Craig Wright’s recently submitted bitcoin address list that contained at least three spent blocks. Following the court filing, on May 24 a pastezone dump of 144 addresses, some of which are also represented in Wright’s list, contained a verified message that notes “Craig Steven Wright is a liar […] The post Over a Hundred 10-Year-Old Bitcoin Addresses Signed: Message Calls ‘Craig Wright a Fraud’ appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-5-26 20:20 | |
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145 different Bitcoin addresses that are listed as a part of Craig Wright’s infamous Tulip Trust just signed a message declaring that Wright is a fraud and that he doesn’t... The post Decade Old Bitcoin Miner Proves Craig Wright Is a Fraud appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-5-26 19:11 | |
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Coinspeaker One of the First Bitcoin Miners Calls Craig Wright a FraudAn early Bitcoin (BTC) miner has signed a cryptographic message with 145 wallet addresses containing unspent UTXOs calling Craig Wright (CSW) a fraud and a liar.
2020-5-26 18:34 | |
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While most of the crypto industry already dismisses Craig Wright as disingenuous, there is now more evidence to prove that the Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) forerunner is being deliberately fraudulent.
2020-5-26 18:19 | |
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Bitcoin keys from coins Wright claims to own were used to sign a message calling him a "fraud."
2020-5-27 17:44 | |
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An early Bitcoin (BTC) miner has signed a cryptographic message with 145 wallet addresses containing unspent UTXOs calling Craig S. Wright (CSW) a fraud and a liar. According to Twitter user @Zectro1, CSW’s claim of being Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto seems to have suffered another blow with an early BTC miner signing a scathing message […] The post Early Bitcoin Miner Signs Message Calling Craig Wright a Liar and Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-5-26 16:05 | |
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Craig Wright’s claim to thousands of Bitcoin addresses is shaken once again as 145 addresses with BTC from 2009 signed a message saying he is a fraud.
2020-5-26 15:21 | |
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News broke today that banking giant JPMorgan would be extending banking services to two of the world’s most prominent crypto exchanges. This is significant news considering that the bank’s CEO previously called Bitcoin a “fraud.
2020-5-13 20:00 | |
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Scammers don't lose an opportunity to prey on new victims in the middle of the 'black swan' COVID-19 pandemic
2020-4-9 17:15 | |
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Manitoba’s securities regulator has issued a warning against crypto scams after an increasing number of locals have been victimized by virtual currency fraud
2020-3-26 08:38 | |
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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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Lightning-based fiat-bitcoin systems could popularize crypto payments, as long as fraud and bitcoin's non-reversibility don't get in the way.
2020-2-26 08:00 | |
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The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao has called out Purported Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, calling him a fraud. This is coming on the heels of Chinese cryptocurrency exchange FCoin pausing deposits and withdrawals after announcing a shortage of digital assets worth $130 million.
2020-2-25 21:59 | |
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Bitcoin SV (BSV) Founder Craig Wright recently said that everyone should remove their crypto-assets off of Binance as soon as possible due to another ‘Mt. Gox’ scenario brewing. The Binance CEO responded by calling him a fraud.
2020-2-25 16:52 | |
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Coinspeaker Tezos Price Gains 1000% in 2019 without PoW, ICO or FraudTezos price is too volatile compared to Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum and other explosive materials. However, Tezos really deserves your attention as it has gained 1000% in just one year.
2020-2-20 19:29 | |
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The 2020 U. S. Presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg addressed the subject of cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings (ICO) in his recently published Financial Reform Policy. Bloomberg wants more “regulatory oversight” when it comes to this promising technology, claiming he sees “plenty of hype, fraud and criminal activity.
2020-2-19 03:10 | |
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A Chinese multi-billion dollar scam known as PlusToken is moving their holdings of Bitcoin once again. In 2019, when the price of BTC dropped to the $6,000s, analysts attributed the fall to the dumping of funds by the fraud.
2020-2-11 14:50 | |
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Investigators take down fraudulent crypto and gold investment scheme
2020-2-1 19:11 | |
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Central bankers who initially discounted Bitcoin and other public crypto assets as fraud, Ponzi schemes or scams, have suddenly changed their stance. Banks Now Love Crypto, But Only if They Can Control It Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau is the latest monetary policymaker who has recently commented on cryptocurrency and advocated for the technology to be issued and controlled by central banks.
2020-1-27 19:30 | |
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Europol's report reveals that criminals are deterred from using cryptocurrencies for money laundering due to successful law enforcement seizures, with illicit crypto use representing less than 1% of overall transactions.
Authorities supported by Europol have taken down a major crypto launderer and seized 1,909 Bitcoin in a joint operation. The post Europol Seize Nearly $50M Worth of Bitcoin in Money Laundering Racket appeared first on BeInCrypto.