Fraudsters Impersonate United Kingdom’s FCA in Bitcoin Email Scam

2019-7-24 09:00

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the top financial watchdog of the United Kingdom, has warned crypto enthusiasts of a scam email that has been impersonating it in a bid to lure unsuspecting investors into investing in a fake bitcoin (BTC) investment scheme, reports FT Adviser on July 22, 2019.

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U.K’s Financial Conduct Authority ‘involved’ in email scam involving Bitcoin

“With great power comes great responsibility” The cryptocurrency market needs to abide by that as well. And, Facebook learnt this the hard way after it was found that fake Facebook accounts, pages, and groups were claiming to sell the yet-to-be released cryptocurrency, Libra, at a discounted rate.

2019-7-24 03:30	Social
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Bitcoin Fraudsters Ape UK’s Financial Watchdog in Bold Crypto Scam

Bitcoin scammers are getting increasingly creative. In a bold move, the fraudsters have impersonated the UK watchdog Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), sending scam emails to encourage the recipients to buy Bitcoin from them.

2019-7-23 15:38	UK
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UK watchdog warns financial advisors of fake Bitcoin email campaign

Con artists will try anything to make their schemes appear legitimate to unwitting victims. In a recent email doing the rounds to financial advisors, scammers have been impersonating the UK‘s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) luring victims into a trap with Bitcoin.

2019-7-23 11:12	hard fork
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Fearful Banks Show Negative Bias Toward Crypto Investors

Banks are afraid of bitcoin and some of them are responding in a way that’s driving customers away. On July 18, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital Anthony Pompliano shared on Twitter an epic email from a disgruntled client that was sent to the CEO of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

2019-7-21 22:00
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Two Americans Fined $360,000 for Impersonating CFTC in Bitcoin Scam

Texas court has granted a motion against two American citizens that were soliciting Bitcoin impersonating the U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The criminals were using Facebook and email tactics to persuade citizens into sending them bitcoin, claiming they were investing those funds into financial products.

2019-7-12 21:00	United States
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Two Americans Fined $360,000 for Impersonating CFTF in Bitcoin Scam

2019-7-12 21:00	United States
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Here’s why Satoshi Nakamoto set Bitcoin’s supply limit to 21 million

Welcome to Hard Fork Basics, a collection of tips, tricks, guides, and info to keep you up to date in the cryptocurrency and blockchain world. When Satoshi Nakamoto built Bitcoin, design choices were made that effectively limits the number of Bitcoins that will ever exist to (roughly) 21 million.

2019-7-8 15:42
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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Way

Pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell has stepped away from the project, reassuring the privacy coin’s community that it is in “safe hands. ” The move has sparked inevitable Satoshi Nakamoto comparisons.

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Satoshi Comparisons Surface After Grin Founder Exits in Similar Circumstances

2019-6-29 01:05	Satoshi Nakamoto
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Bitcoin ransomers claim second victory as Florida town pays $500,000

A second town in Florida has paid over $500,000 in Bitcoin to hackers following a ransomware attack. Officials in Lake City paid the hackers after their computer systems were down for two weeks.

2019-6-27 17:13	hard fork
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Bitcoin Price ‘Could Fall to $6,500’ Before Next Bullish Spike: eToro Analyst

By CCN Markets: The price of bitcoin has broken through the $9,000 mark and seems well on its way to $10,000, but brokerage firm eToro believes that there’s a pullback in the cards before the cryptocurrency enjoys its next bullish run.

2019-6-18 20:00	etoro
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Bitcoin (BTC) Is the Email of Internet Money and Existing Monetary System Disruptor

Bitcoin Is More Than Just Money Andreas Antonopoulos, the author of The Internet of Money, is one of the most prolific Bitcoin Maximalists of this age. The technologist is well known for his eloquent interviews that leave many mind blown.

2019-6-13 21:27	Bitcoin Innovation
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How to Use a Physical Security Key to Safeguard Your Exchange Account

If you are keeping funds on a cryptocurrency platform such as a centralized exchange it is highly advisable you make sure your accounts are as safe as possible. Using a physical security key can greatly help with this as well as safeguarding other private services such as email and cloud storage.

2019-6-4 15:15
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Encrypted Email Service Dmail Expands Into The Middle East Crypto Market With New Bitcoin Tools

Encrypted Email Service Dmail, Expand Into The Middle East Crypto Market An encrypted email service Dmail, launched on beta on June I is hoping to make online privacy tools more accessible in the Middle East.

2019-6-3 22:26	Bitcoin Innovation
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Encrypted Email Service Launches on Blockstack With Bitcoin Features

An Egyptian web firm is building Dmail on Blockstack to bring bitcoin-friendly privacy tech to the Middle East.

2019-6-4 17:00
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Everyone’s Hodling Bitcoin: Only 1.3% of Transactions are Payments in 2019

By CCN: Research by Chainalysis finds that only 1. 3% of bitcoin transactions so far in 2019 came from merchants. The remaining 98. 7% of volume is all on the exchanges. That means almost no one is using bitcoin to buy things.

2019-6-2 18:18	Chainalysis
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North Korean Hackers Attack Upbit Users in South Korea

North Korean hackers have made a phishing attempt on users of the South Korean crypto exchange Upbit. News correspondents in Korea broke this development on May 29, 2019, detailing the ploy to steal Upbit users’ information.

2019-6-1 00:54	#scams
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This Gallery Is Selling Indigenous Australian Art for Bitcoin

Things you can buy with bitcoin: AT&T’s services, airfare, pretty much anything using gift cards through Bitrefill, pizza, drugs (duh) and now, Indigenous Australian art.

2019-5-29 23:15	Investing
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FOMO Frenzy Triggers Bitcoin Price to ‘Blast Through’ $10,000 This Week, Predicts Analyst

By CCN: Chief Market Analyst at ThinkMarkets, Naeem Aslam, has laid down an enticing marker in an email note to his subscribers to predict bitcoin price booming past the crucial $10,000 milestone.

2019-5-28 16:01	Bitcoin
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Bitcoin Ransomware Siege: Google Disables Baltimore’s Gmail During $100,000 Standoff

By CCN: The city of Baltimore has suffered a blow in its bid to keep operations running amidst a bitcoin ransom attack that has crippled critical services. Per The Baltimore Sun, city officials had created Gmail accounts in the wake of ransomware attackers demanding $100,000 in Bitcoin.

2019-5-24 14:28	Google
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Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Raises Millions in Share Offering

Major cryptocurrency exchange platform Kraken has announced that it will be offering shares of its company for as little as $1,000. This, according to an email distributed by the exchange on May 20, 2019.

2019-5-22 16:09	venture capital
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Dutch bank ABN AMRO ditches its Bitcoin wallet because it’s ‘too risky’

Dutch bank ABN AMRO has decided to cancel its plans for a custodial cryptocurrency wallet, called Wallie, claiming that digital assets are “just too risky. ” Back in January, the rumor mill spun into action after images surfaced on Twitter that appeared to suggest Dutch bank ABN AMRO was designing a cryptocurrency wallet.

2019-5-20 11:30	hard fork
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Smell Something Fishy? The CFTC Will Pay You to Report Crypto Scams

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	#scams
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Bitcoin scammers net nearly $1M by telling people they can see them masturbate

A new kind of scam has accrued almost $1 million in bitcoin from frightened porn viewers, says a new report — and they’re staining the good names of Shakespeare and Austen to do it. According to the report, from cybersecurity firm Area 1, this scam involves a threatening email, in which the victim is told videos or pictures of them watching pornography will be leaked to their contacts, along with whatever they were watching, unless they pay a ransom in Bitcoin.

2019-5-16 04:07	security
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Microsoft Is Building an ID Verification Platform on Bitcoin

Microsoft is leveraging blockchain technology to create a trustless digital identity scheme, but its not launching a token or building a private blockchain to do so.

2019-5-13 18:34	blockchain
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Crazy Crowdfund Scammer Pitched a Backpack, Stole $800,000 to Buy Bitcoin

By CCN. com: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched legal action against a serial crowdfund scammer who used his ill-gotten gains to buy Bitcoin. Douglas Monahan promised consumers a ‘high-tech’ backpack known as the iBackPack, but failed to deliver the product after raising over $800,000.

2019-5-7 11:22
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Craig Wright Reportedly Faked Email Evidence in Kleiman Lawsuit

An early mining venture between Craig Wright and David Kleiman led to claims that Wright stole significant Bitcoin (BTC) funds.

2019-5-1 14:18	News
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Microsoft Outlook Security Breach Targeted Bitcoin Accounts

Earlier in April 2019, Microsoft Hotmail, MSN, and Outlook email accounts suffered a severe security breach. Now, a good number of the victims have revealed that their cryptocurrency wallets were hacked during the ugly incident, reports Motherboard on April 29, 2019.

2019-5-1 23:00	security
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Microsoft Under Fire After Hackers Access Outlook Emails to Steal Bitcoin

By CCN: Hackers infiltrated Microsoft Outlook email users’ accounts in order to steal crypto, including bitcoin. The scope of the cyber-theft is still as-yet undetermined, but it appears to be more expansive than first thought.

2019-4-30 19:45	#microsoft
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The Microsoft Outlook hackers are stealing victims’ Bitcoin

Earlier this month, hackers accessed the emails of numerous Microsoft Outlook users after snatching the credentials of one of the company’s customer support reps. But now it turns out the hackers were also able to steal users’ cryptocurrency.

2019-4-30 11:44	hard fork
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Report: Australians Lost Over $4 Million to Crypto Scams in 2018

The latest edition of “Targeting scams,” an annual report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) revealed that the country saw a 190 percent increase in cryptocurrency scams, with a total of $6.

2019-4-30 20:07	#scams
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New Cryptojacking Campaign Infects Asia Using More Profitable Tactics

Cryptojacking — the process of infecting computers with malware to mine cryptocurrency — has declined alongside prices during cryptowinter. But like any dextrous organism facing extinction, the virus and its propagators are adapting.

2019-4-27 22:07	Privacy & security
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Meghan Markle’s Friend Misha Nonoo Faces Bitcoin Hacking Scandal of Fashion Company via Email

Hackers tend to go after any account that they think they can get funding from, and no one appears to be off the table. Misha Nonoo, a designer and friend to Meghan Markle, became one of the latest victims, as her company’s email list was hacked, allowing the attackers to send out threats to any […]

2019-4-24 02:36	Cryptocurrency News
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Bitcoin hackers threaten to leak masturbation vids if victims don’t pay up

Bitcoin sextortion scams are so 2018, right? Well, there are some hackers out there that would beg to differ. It appears that residents of Norton, a small town in Kansas, US, are being targeted by scammers threatening to release sensitive material unless the victims pay a Bitcoin ransom.

2019-4-23 11:53	hard fork
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Bitcoin hacker targets Meghan Markle’s friend’s fashion company

Meghan Markle’s designer friend’s Misha Nonoo’s fashion company has been targeted by a Bitcoin hacker. Nonoo, who is rumoured to have introduced Markle to Prince Charles, said she was “mortified” after a hacker gained access to her eponymous label’s email list and began sending threatening messages.

2019-4-23 11:30	hard fork
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Unconfirmed: Mt. Gox Automatically Filing Creditors for Repayment

An unconfirmed email from Mt. Gox rehabilitators suggests all users who lost bitcoin will get compensation — even if they did not file a rehabilitation claim

2019-4-23 23:59	Cryptocurrencies
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Mt. Gox Is Automatically Filing Unregistered Creditors for Reimbursement

If you’re a creditor in Mt. Gox’s civil rehabilitation case, the defunct exchange may have automatically filed and approved a reimbursement claim for you — provided that your Mt.

2019-4-23 22:44	Privacy & security
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Bitcoin SV’s Craig Wright withdraws email evidence submitted to court as he could not verify date of email exchange

Craig Wright, the self-proclaimed Satoshi Nakamoto, has been in the limelight for the past few days. Apart from the news surrounding a lawsuit over a defamation case, Wright also made headlines due to the news pertaining to the Dave Kleiman case.

2019-4-19 15:50	News
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Mueller Report: Russia Used Bitcoin to Fund DNC Hacks

An intelligence branch of the Russian government used bitcoin to fund its cyberwarfare efforts to interfere with the 2016 U. S. presidential election, the Mueller Report claims.

2019-4-19 23:21	Law & justice
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Craig Wright Threatens Libel Suit In Letter to Bitcoiner, Demands Apology

Craig S. Wright has officially taken the first steps in a legal action against a member of the Bitcoin community, according to a letter shared with Bitcoin Magazine.

2019-4-12 21:55	#scams
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Fake CIA Sextortionists Demand Bitcoin Under Threat Of Prosecution

Phishing scams are the bane of a good day. What better way to wake up than reading an email saying your credit card has been stolen? How about an email asking for bitcoin to keep you out of jail? Don’t you love phishing scams? There’s a new, particularly nasty crypto-related scam floating around, and it very well may ruin your life, quite literally, if you don’t pay attention.

2019-4-8 11:10
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Bitrefill Adds Thor Turbo to Speed Lightning Connections

The crypto payment platform Bitrefill has announced an upgrade to its Thor service. The upgrade is dubbed “Thor Turbo,” and its expected to speed up the process of connecting to Bitrefill's Lightning node, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine.

2019-4-5 19:15	Payments
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Paxful Introduces AI-Powered, Biometric Verification to Improve KYC and AML

The peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced today, April 2, 2019, that it’s introducing AI-powered identity verification to help improve know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) procedures on the platform.

2019-4-3 21:13	Regulation
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Zebpay Integrates Bitcoin Lightning Payments on Its Mobile App

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Zebpay now supports Lightning payments. The exchange announced the news via a blog post, where it claims to be the "first major exchange" to enable Lightning payments for its users.

2019-3-29 20:13	Payments
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CME Chairman Admits Bitcoin’s Finite Amount is a Problem

CME Group chairman Terry Duffy recently revealed the biggest reason why regulators have been dragging their feet on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies: finite supply. *Only* 21 Million Bitcoin is a Problem Imagine the post office proclaiming in 90s that the problem with email is that the postman doesn’t deliver it to your door.

2019-3-29 23:00
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Bitcoin Accepted as Payment Option by Major US Electronics Company

Avnet has become the latest major enterprise to begin accepting payment in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency. On March 19, 2019, the company announced that it will allow customers to pay for goods and services using bitcoin and bitcoin cash.

2019-3-20 19:08	Adoption
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Blackmailers are posing as CIA agents to steal your Bitcoin

A cryptocurrency fan has issued a warning: scammers are posing as the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to fool you into giving up $10,000 worth of Bitcoin, so take notice. A Reddit post titled “CIA got me fam” displayed proof of a new bogus email campaign designed to trick potential victims into thinking they are subject of an international criminal investigation.

2019-3-19 18:24	hard fork
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Lazyfox Bitcoin Cash Built Question and Answer Tasking Platform Launches

What Is Lazyfox? Developed by Tobias B, LazyFox is a new tasking platform powered by Bitcoin Cash that aims at creating a community of people helping others through rewarding users for completing bounties, answering questions, and participating in surveys.

2019-3-18 13:30	News
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Chinese Government Officials Targeted With Ransomware, North Korea Suspected

A statement issued by the People’s Government of Yiling District, Yichang has revealed that Chinese officials have been the target of a ransomware email attack in recent days. Also Read: Late Quadrigacx CEO Used Personal Funds to Fulfill Withdrawals Chinese Government Officials Face Ransomware Attack A statement issued by a Chinese provincial government website has […] The post Chinese Government Officials Targeted With Ransomware, North Korea Suspected appeared first on Bitcoin News.

2019-3-15 03:15
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