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A British High Court suspended the Pretoria Group International (PGI) Trading firm. PGI offered crypto services, health products, and blockchain education. PGI Shutdown While Holding Investors’ Funds Initially, two of PGI’s Directors delivered conflicting reports about its activities. However, the…
2022-10-29 12:00 | |
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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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Thailand was the first in Southeast Asia to implement digital-assets regulations in 2018. The move attracted investors to cryptocurrencies. After that, however, the crypto industry started facing setbacks as regulators tightened rules during trading irregularities and the collapse of a top exchange.
2022-9-29 15:29 | |
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Two individuals have been arrested on suspicion of duping 1,441 investors in a crypto scam, according to the Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai's Thane Police in the western state of Maharashtra.
2022-9-6 12:23 | |
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Javier Milei, a top candidate in the race to be Argentina’s next president, has been slammed with a lawsuit by disgruntled investors for reportedly publicizing a crypto Ponzi.
2022-8-24 21:13 | |
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Terra analyst and source of several whistleblower leaks, FatManTerra, has alleged that Mirror Protocol is a: “farce designed to enrich Do Kwon/VCs while manipulating governance and screwing over retail.
2022-5-26 04:30 | |
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A South African high court has declared an alleged bitcoin scam mastermind, Willie Breedt, bankrupt. The court decision follows an application by one disgruntled investor, Simon Dix, a News24 report states.
2020-7-8 08:25 | |
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An alleged crypto pyramid scheme stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors.
2020-7-1 23:49 | |
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The U.S. SEC freezes assets of several alleged crypto scams run by Hvizdzaks brothers.
2020-6-20 21:03 | |
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The SEC is trying to freeze the assets of a cryptocurrency mining and multilevel marketing scheme that it claimed bilked investors of $12 million.
2020-6-6 23:05 | |
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A federal court has frozen assets raised from investors in the Meta 1 Coin token sale.
2020-5-28 18:00 | |
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The CFTC alleged three individuals and affiliated entities defrauded crypto and binary options investors out of $20 million over 5 years.
2020-5-8 00:14 | |
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A cryptocurrency investment management company allegedly lured investors into a fraudulent fund, using the capital for personal gain, according to new complaint.
2020-4-29 00:26 | |
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The Nasdaq-listed Canaan is being attacked by angry investors who think that the company has exaggerated its financial health
2020-3-15 05:00 | |
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Ukraine has been asked to act following a report of an alleged cryptocurrency fraud operation duping naive investors from Sweden's capital.
2020-3-4 16:00 | |
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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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Former LedgerX CTO and co-founder Zach Dexter has been named as the company's CEO just hours after a director alleged the company's interim management was failing its investors and employees.
2020-1-11 01:01 | |
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The SEC claims Donald Blakstad bilked investors of $3.5 million. One scheme involved a non-existent crypto mining operation.
2020-1-9 21:11 | |
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Telegram, the Pavel Durov-led privacy-centric instant messaging app that is developing its blockchain network, Telegram Network (TON), and native altcoin dubbed Gram (GRAM), has released a new statement, making it clear to the entire public that its Gram token is not a security as alleged by the U.
2020-1-7 18:30 | |
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Authorities have arrested a 23-year old man over an alleged SIM swapping scheme targeting crypto execs and investors
2019-12-13 13:24 | |
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The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time to process an acquittal motion.
2019-12-11 22:30 | |
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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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You don’t mess with Bitcoin investors from Ladysmith or, maybe, well, you do, but your house gets torched. After several South Africans lost their money to a Bitcoin Ponzi scheme in the rural town of Ladysmith, they decided to torch the house of the alleged mastermind of the crime, Sphelele “Sgumza” Mbatha. According to reports, […]
2019-7-12 01:40 | |
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Before shutting down, Bitcoin Wallets' "manager" promised 100-percent returns on investors' money in just two weeks. Then they burned down his house.
2019-7-11 19:45 | |
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As the dreams of South Africans who put their money in Bitcoin Wallet hoping to double their money in 15 working days went up in smoke, so too did the property of the alleged operator of the cryptocurrency scam.
2019-7-11 12:29 | |
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On July 8 the office of the New York Attorney General submitted a report detailing Bitfinex and Tether’s alleged illegal trading and securities issuance in the state of New York. Have Tether and Bitfinex Colluded to Manipulate Bitcoin Price? A recently filed Memorandum of Law filed by the New York Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) alleges that Bitfinex and Tether knowingly issued USDT as loans to investors and operated as an unregistered securities operator in New Read More The post Tether Is In The Soup ‘Again’ For Blatant USDT Issuance appeared first on Bitcoinist.com.
2019-7-10 13:00 | |
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The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) of India has arrested four individuals in Surat; Dhiraj Patel, Vijay Prajapati, Ashiq Shaikh and Kamruddin Syed in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency ponzi scheme.
2019-7-7 19:06 | |
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In spite of repeated warnings by the country’s central bank, people in India continue to fall for cryptocurrency scams. In the latest, the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Rajasthan police has unearthed a Bitcoin scam worth INR 150 million ($2 million).
2019-6-27 12:55 | |
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In a press release issued on June 19, 2019, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) unsealed a complaint against a Swedish citizen named Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson and his company, Eastern Metal Securities (EMS), for orchestrating a multi-million dollar investment scam using bitcoin.
2019-6-21 21:00 | |
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By CCN: John de Mol, who is behind the reality television hit show “Big Brother,” blames Facebook for scammers using his likeness on fraudulent bitcoin-fueled ads that stole nearly $2 million from investors.
2019-6-6 22:30 | |
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India‘s authorities have uncovered more cryptocurrency scams connected to the alleged head of BitConnect Asia, Divyesh Darji, Times of India reports. Police claim Darji had also been marketing another dubious cryptocurrency-related investment, “Regal Coin,” by offering short-term returns of 5,000 percent on any investments made.
2019-6-4 10:43 | |
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By CCN: On Thursday, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil injunctive action against the operator of an alleged pyramid scheme that raised $26 million from investors. The defendant in the case is Daniel Pacheco, 45, a resident of San Clemente, California who has been charged by the SEC with selling unregistered securities as well as operating a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency pyramid scheme.
2019-5-28 09:16 | |
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By CCN: The U. S. SEC has secured a court order to stop an alleged diamond-backed Ponzi scheme estimated to be worth around $30 million. The securities regulator outlined how more than 300 investors were fleeced into handing over funds to Florida-based Argyle Coin LLC.
2019-5-22 22:30 | |
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Nestled in the exhibition room at this year’s Consensus conference, the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had a message for conference goers as they weaved in and out of booths representing various projects and startups in the space: “Be on the lookout for virtual currency fraud” and if you see it, let us know.
2019-5-17 19:00 | |
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Twenty-five investors filed a lawsuit over an alleged pump-and-dump scheme perpetrated by music producer Ryan Felton and rapper T. I. , co-owners of the blockchain-based funding and distribution network Flik.
2019-5-14 23:43 | |
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By CCN: After New York alleged that industry giant Bitfinex had potentially committed fraud with its handling of the Tether cryptocurrency, one might have expected Bitcoin traders to initiate a mad rush for the exit.
2019-5-7 23:00 | |
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Centra Tech’s founders seem to be in hot water. Sorhab Sharma, Robert Farkas, and Raymond Trapani were arrested in April 2018 for allegedly trying to defraud investors through a token sale. The Deputy U.
2019-5-3 20:16 | |
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In Nigeria, thousands of cryptocurrency investors and traders have reportedly lost access to millions of dollars. Paxful Incorporated, a major cryptocurrency services firm based in Estonia, is accused of large-scale fraud, reportedly suspending the accounts of Nigerian users.
2019-4-8 18:52 | |
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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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A man in the US has been barred from trading following his alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam that resulted in losses of approximately $1. 5 million in investors’ funds. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA) – a non-governmental organization that regulates member brokerage firms and exchange markets – looked into claims that Daniel Todd Levine, of Englewood (Colorado), offered investors a chance to buy discounted Bitcoin in return for significant returns on their investment.
2019-3-25 18:55 | |
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The alleged ringleaders of OneCoin, the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency-fuelled pyramid scheme, have finally been busted. On Friday, US authorities apprehended brother-and-sister duo Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova at Los Angeles International Airport over their role in the international blockchain-based scam, reports Bloomberg.
2019-3-11 14:42 | |
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The FBI wants to identify alleged victims of the Bitconnect alleged ponzi scheme via a questionnaire
2019-2-23 10:41 | |
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South Korean authorities recently alleged that top executives of cryptocurrency exchange company, Upbit, falsified the company’s trading volume. Company Inflates Trading Volume by $226 billion Three top Executives of Upbit, one of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, were recently accused of inflating the company’s trading volumes and manipulating the data system to attract investors, according to a report by The Korea Times.
2018-12-22 11:03 | |
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Everyone’s rushing to put out holiday gift guides, and Crypto Briefing is no exception. Market stabilization from holiday 2017’s alleged price manipulation has cryptocurrency investors stressing, but the industry is growing, no matter what the charts may tell you.
2018-12-9 19:13 | |
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The initial coin offering industry has seen its fair share of illicit projects. In most cases, investors are promised massive returns when they make a financial contribution. It now appears the Naked Technology ICO is also under a lot of scrutiny.
2018-12-5 16:05 | |
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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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Venom DAO has launched VIP-003 vote, allowing token holders to vote on a next-generation network upgrade featuring 150,000 TPS and advanced scaling.
M3 DAO partners with REI Network to deliver zero-fee Web3 onboarding, empowering 200,000 global members with frictionless access to decentralized apps.
The battle for control of Aave, the $52 billion decentralized lending giant, has escalated from a debate over interface economics into an open civil war regarding governance legitimacy. What began as a dispute over $10 million in annualized swap fees and brand ownership has, in the last 24 hours, mutated into a bitter procedural fight […] The post Aave insiders warn a “hostile” holiday vote could destroy the protocol’s dominance as prices crash appeared first on CryptoSlate.
The battle for control of Aave, the $52 billion decentralized lending giant, has escalated from a debate over interface economics into an open civil war regarding governance legitimacy. What began as a dispute over $10 million in annualized swap fees and brand ownership has, in the last 24 hours, mutated into a bitter procedural fight […] The post Aave prices are crashing as insiders warn a “hostile” holiday vote could destroy the protocol’s dominance appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Aave Labs and the Aave DAO battle over CoW Swap fee flows, with delegates pushing to move all Aave IP, brand and frontend assets under direct tokenholder control. A governance dispute has emerged within the Aave protocol ecosystem, pitting the…
Collably Network collaborating with 21DAO to recreate Web3 interactions with a task-based model providing value and rewards upon real contribution.
LDO surges 25% within a week to $0.85 and VanEck submits a Lido staked ETF application, which may be a turning point in the liquid staking pioneer.