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The FBI’s initiative to counter crypto investment fraud has helped thousands of victims avoid losing millions of dollars since its launch, according to a Feb. 13 press release. Dubbed Operation Level Up, the program proactively identifies individuals in the midst of being scammed and intervenes before they lose their money.
2025-2-14 00:00 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has shut down a Russia-based website that hosted online shops engaged in the sale of illegal goods and services and accepted crypto payments. FBI Seizes DEER.
2020-3-27 19:00 | |
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Overstock CEO and noted crypto pumper Patrick Byrne has publicly claimed that he carried on a romantic relationship with convicted Russian spy Maria Butina. He further claims that the FBI asked him to work his way back into her bedroom, but he declined the order.
2019-7-31 21:18 | |
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After pivoting and switching names to Long Blockchain, the small company boosted its stock price by up to 500%, sparking concerns of manipulated trading.
2019-7-26 15:25 | |
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According to a search warrant issued by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Long Island Iced Tea, the company that famously rebranded to Long Blockchain during the height of the 2017 crypto bull market, is suspected of being an elaborate pump and dump scheme.
2019-7-26 02:00 | |
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The investigation moves beyond the borders of Canada, as US agencies take a hawkish stance to cryptocurrency activity.
2019-6-5 14:54 | |
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By CCN: The FBI officially expanded the QuadrigaCX case, in which the founder suspiciously died, and more than $100 million in cryptocurrency was lost, to the United States today. The agency took to Twitter to ask for US-based victims of the crime to come forward.
2019-6-5 09:33 | |
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The Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation Division, the U. S. Attorney General’s office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, and the FBI have all begun investigating the events of now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.
2019-6-4 18:45 | |
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U.S. officials claim attacks such as WannaCry and hacks of crypto exchanges were an attempt to circumvent sanctions by North Korea
2019-5-30 14:12 | |
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An Arizona Man and an Israeli woman have been charged in connection with providing “shadow banking services” to cryptocurrency exchanges — involving millions of dollars. The two individuals were charged by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a criminal investigation.
2019-5-2 14:00 | |
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U. S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York has charged two individuals for providing “shadow banking” services to crypto exchanges. According to a statement by Geoffrey S.
2019-5-2 23:54 | |
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Listen all y'all, it's a SaboTor.
2019-3-29 00:38 | |
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By CCN. com: The Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team announced 61 arrests today and the seizure of millions in cryptocurrency as a result of Operation SaboTor, an effort targeting international drug traffickers operating on the dark web.
2019-3-28 19:01 | |
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An ICO fraud case has concluded with a guilty plea. Jared Rice Sr. , the former CEO of decentralized bank startup AriseBank and creator of the AriseCoin, has pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $4.
2019-3-23 16:35 | |
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The OneCoin project was founded in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in 2014 and since then has been operating a multilevel cryptocurrency-based Ponzi scheme that generated $3. 7 billion in sales revenue and more than $2.
2019-3-22 20:00 | |
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1pool Ltd. , an international securities dealer, is facing fines of almost a million dollars after being discovered by an FBI agent to be running an illegal Bitcoin operation, the CTFC announced On March 11, 2019.
2019-3-13 22:00 | |
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On March 6th, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OneCoin ringleader Konstantin Ignatov at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The government alleges that he was one of several masterminds behind the multi-billion dollar crypto pyramid scheme.
2019-3-9 04:30 | |
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The story of QuadrigaCX from the beginning of their problems until now is a long and confusing road, filled with interesting twists and secrets. After the late CEO’s death in December 2018, the company scrambled to make the withdrawals of funds possible, freezing activity in the process.
2019-3-6 17:53 | |
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This week in crypto: FBI cracks down, Elon Musk spreads some Bitcoin positivity, and S Korea plays follow the leader. Read about it in our weekly roundup. The post This Week in Cryptocurrency: February 22, 2019 appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-2-22 20:44 | |
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The FBI is reaching out to those who invested in the now-worthless BCC token offered by the defunct crypto exchange BitConnect.
2019-2-23 13:00 | |
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In this edition of The Daily we cover a number of cryptocurrency-related business collaborations from around the world. These include Sirin Labs and Simplex, Middle East-focused crypto exchange Cbx, and Heliocor, IPC and ICE Data Services.
2019-2-21 14:01 | |
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Like most scams, it will be years before Bitconnect’s operators have felt the full weight of their actions. However, the US government wants victims to help bring the $2. 5 billion crypto Ponzi scheme to justice.
2019-2-21 02:05 | |
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The victims of the once popular lending platform that turned out to be the biggest crypto scam in history are encouraged to speak up by the FBI
2019-3-27 22:01 | |
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This is the third instalment of reporter Colin Harper's "Living on Bitcoin" experience in San Francisco. Find out what happened to him earlier on Day 1 and on Day 2.
2019-1-18 00:05 | |
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The European Banking Authority (EBA), a regulatory agency of the European Union, has published its assessment into the application of EU law to crypto assets. The agency, which is headquartered in London, recommends that the European Commission tables a response to the risks regulators associate with the field such as money laundering.
2019-1-10 01:20 | |
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U. S. federal law enforcement authorities are among the most active criminal agencies globally against cryptocurrency infractions. A new example of this is that FBI and Homeland Security agents have reportedly raided a technology campus over unauthorized cryptocurrency trading.
2019-1-8 01:45 | |
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The FBI has arrested the CEO of Dallas-based AriseBank on November 28, 2018, reports Dallas News. The arrest was made after allegations of company CEO, Jared Rice Sr. duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million.
2018-11-30 14:00 | |
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The FBI has arrested the CEO of cryptocurrency platform AriseBank after he was indicted over an alleged multi-million dollar scam.
2018-11-29 12:30 | |
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The public face of OneCoin, Sebastian Greenwood, has been arrested and extradited to the United States. Greenwood was captured by the Crime Suppression Division (CSD) in Thailand as reported by the Bangkok Post.
2018-11-24 21:48 | |
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Scams are nothing new in the crypto industry. From ICOs that received money and then vanished to trading sites that went down with investors’ funds, there is no shortage of people who’ve lost their hard-earned money in their pursuit of the Bitcoin millions.
2018-11-7 04:02 | |
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On October 22, 2018, The Chicago Sun Times revealed the findings of unsealed court documents which detailed an FBI investigation into a ring of suspected cryptojackers. The alleged ring is comprised of a group of online gamers who met while playing the popular video game Call of Duty.
2018-10-27 23:00 | |
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According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a group of “Call of Duty” players from Indiana are reported to have stolen $3. 3 million in cryptocurrency by coercing an Illinois computer expert into remotely hacking unsecured crypto wallets.
2018-10-24 17:28 | |
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A group of “Call of Duty” players from Indiana are accused of stealing more than $3 million in cryptocurrencies after coercing an Illinois man to aid them in remotely hacking unsecured crypto wallets on more than 100 cell phones.
2018-10-24 06:00 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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Marshall Islands-based 1Broker has been in a flurry as of late, as the crypto-focused investment services provider came under heavy fire from the top guns of the free world, American regulators and their closest compatriots.
2018-10-2 14:00 | |
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Uncle Sam is snooping on crypto investors, many of whom believe they’re transacting anonymously on the web. U. S. government spending on blockchain analytics has nearly tripled — $5.
2018-9-26 15:00 | |
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“Bitcoin is only used for money laundering and terrorist financing,” cynics of this nascent industry continually cry, as these wanton critics believe that blockchains, in all their the pseudonymous glory, are solely used for illicit acts.
2018-9-25 12:00 | |
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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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After the failure of BitConnect came to light in January this year, the U.S law enforcement seems to have a watchful eye on people associated with BitConnect. In a recent YouTube video released by Calen Powell, also known as Crypto Clover, [who refers to himself as a“crypto nomad”], he claims to have been restrained, threatened […]
2018-8-7 22:57 | |
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US Law enforcers seem to be bent on cracking down on BitConnect. In recent development, Crypto Clover, one of BitConnect’s top promoters claims to have been detained, threatened and interrogated by the FBI.
2018-8-6 09:51 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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Back in October 2017, the Donald Trump administration (the team heading the United States of America incase you didn’t know) made a number of anti-Bitcoin statements that suggested the President could go on to ban cryptocurrencies in the very near future.
2018-7-10 13:00 | |
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The first six months of 2018 have seen nearly three times as much crypto getting stolen than in all of 2017, a new report by CipherTrace has revealed. The FBI has also reported a six-fold increase in the number of crypto-related complaints from 2015 to 2017. Criminals have taken to cryptos in earnest as they […]
2018-7-8 21:00 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry is linked to several illegal activities, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently investigating 130 cases. Kyle Armstrong, a supervisory special agent, revealed info while speaking at a cryptocurrency conference titled “Crypto Evolved” in New York on Wednesday, June 27, reported Bloomberg.
2018-7-1 14:14 | |
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Kyle Armstrong, of the FBI’s Virtual Currency Initiative, says the Bureau has 130 cryptocurrency-related cases, and that dark web drug sales are a particular focus
2018-6-28 16:51 | |
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These cases “encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, kidnapping and ransomware attacks.” Also read: Yahoo! Japan Confirms Entrance Into the Crypto Space FBI’s 130 Crypto-Related Cases The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reportedly “has 130 cases tied to cryptocurrencies,” according to Supervisory Special Agent Kyle Armstrong. “There are thousands of cases in the
2018-6-28 12:09 | |
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently running 130 different cryptocurrency-related investigations, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kyle Armstrong told the Crypto Evolved conference in New York that the agency is investigating a variety of crimes, including human trafficking, drug transactions, kidnapping and ransomware, which have a cryptocurrency component, according to
2018-6-28 12:04 | |
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reportedly revealed that it is working on 130 cryptocurrency-related investigations, citing an increase in illegal activity facilitated by crypto payments. These cases “encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, kidnapping and ransomware attacks.
2018-6-28 10:10 | |
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is currently running 130 different cryptocurrency-related investigations, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Kyle Armstrong told the Crypto Evolved conference in New York that the agency is investigating a variety of crimes, including human trafficking, drug transactions, kidnapping and ransomware, which have a cryptocurrency component, according to
2018-6-28 08:32 | |
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