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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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“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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The latest buzz on Twitter is the supposed police raid of the TRON offices in China. This was eventually found to be false, however, as the police were instead called to protect employees from the wrath of an angry mob.
2019-7-9 11:00 | |
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According to a July 5, 2019, report by The Times of India, State Crime Investigation Department (CID) has unearthed yet another cryptocurrency scam in Surat, India, which is estimated to have defrauded investors of more than $180,000.
2019-7-6 21:00 | |
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A final desperate effort to secure bail and at least somewhat lessen the role played by Konstantin Ignatov in the OneCoin Ponzi scheme has been denied. Konstantin, who stands accused of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was arrested on the 6th of March, 2019 at the Los Angeles International Airport for his role in the […]
2019-6-30 19:38 | |
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The operator of the CabbageTech cryptocurrency investment scheme has pleaded guilty to wire fraud
2019-6-24 19:30 | |
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The U. S department of Justice is looking to extradite Swedish citizen for money laundering, wire fraud and securities fraud through a crypto scam amounting to $11 million USD. The blockchain world has long been troubled by the scams, thefts and hacks prevalent on the users’ private keys.
2019-6-20 17:25 | |
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A Swedish citizen has been charged with securities, wire fraud, and money laundering in a scheme that saw him encourage victims to invest using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin In a complaint submitted on March 4, 2019, and unsealed yesterday, Roger Nils-Jonas Karlsson and his company, Eastern Metal Securities (EMS), were charged with engaging in a scheme that defrauded more than 3,500 victims of over $11 million.
2019-6-20 11:49 | |
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Special thanks to Jinglan Wang for review and feedback One question that often comes up is: how exactly is sharding different from sidechains or Plasma? All three architectures seem to involve a hub-and-spoke architecture with a central “main chain” that serves as the consensus backbone of the system, and a set of “child” chains containing actual user-level transactions.
2019-6-14 04:03 | |
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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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“The Eye of Sauron casts its gaze upon the Lightning Network. ”This is how Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun (aka, roasbeef) has heralded the coming of Watchtowers to the Lightning Network.
2019-6-3 17:43 | |
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On May 28th, Konstantin Ignatov attended the preliminary hearing after the Department of Justice (DOJ) had charged him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in March. Ignatov was charged for his role as the leader on the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
2019-6-1 21:30 | |
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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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By CCN: Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a suspect who allegedly operated a bitcoin mining investment scam, according to Dutch daily De Gelrderlander. The fraudulent scheme which was reportedly started in 2017 earned the man named Berry van Mourik at least €2 million ($2.
2019-5-22 14:11 | |
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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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An alleged bitcoin mining fraud scheme involving $110 million sees an arrest in the Netherlands
2019-5-21 14:48 | |
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An alleged bitcoin mining fraud scheme involving $110 million sees an arrest in the Netherlands
2019-5-21 14:48 | |
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Cloud Token, deemed a fraudulent securities investment scheme, has recently taken advantage of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC) protocol to lure in more investors. Let's dive into this unfolding story as this ‘Cloud Token' opportunity continues to catch the eye of the public even though it is a far cry from being Bitcoin. […]
2019-5-19 17:08 | |
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In the latest on the ongoing legal dispute between the New York Attorney General (NYAG), cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and stablecoin issuer Tether, the New York Supreme Court has modified an April 24, 2019, preliminary injunction and now Bitfinex is allowed to continue using the Tether reserves that were loaned to it to maintain its ordinary course of business, such as paying employees and consultants.
2019-5-18 22:14 | |
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OneCoin, whose leaders have been indicted on wire and securities fraud as well as money laundering, took umbrage with a recent report by the Central Bank of Samoa calling the crypto project a "hybrid ponzi-pyramid scheme."
2019-5-18 19:49 | |
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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: Berkshire Hathaway, the multinational corporation led by billionaire Warren Buffett, posted a $377 million first-quarter charge for investment losses related to a solar Ponzi scheme. Berkshire invested $340 million in Ponzi scheme Berkshire made the disturbing revelations in a regulatory filing during its annual shareholders meeting last weekend.
2019-5-9 18:16 | |
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