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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse suggested that the edgy FTX exchange was a fraudulent scheme. Garlinghouse dismisses FTX unregulated claim as “overstated” During a recent interview on CNBC International today, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, while speaking on the current trend in…
2022-11-17 06:00 | |
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Ruja Ignatova, who is notoriously known as the “Cryptoqueen,” has evaded capture for five years and authorities are still clueless as to the whereabouts of the woman behind the infamous OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
2022-10-19 11:40 | |
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India’s financial watchdog, Enforcement Directorate (ED), confiscated $1. 2 million in an investigation of a fraud scheme relying on an App-based token, HPZ. Per an official press release published on September 29, several apps offered users to buy the HPZ tokens to have higher returns.
2022-10-3 01:11 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) filed parallel charges against two organizations. They are Bermuda-based Arbitrade Ltd and Canada-baseThe post This latest pump-and-dump scheme left SEC, OSC to file fraud charges appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-10-1 18:30 | |
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The head-trader of crypto platform EmpiresX pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit a securities fraud. The charges on the alleged are in connected with a global ponzi scheme that defraudeThe post EmpiresX: What now as head trader pleads guilty to $100 million ponzi scheme appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-9-9 21:00 | |
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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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Per a press release from the U. S. Department Of Justice (DoJ), a former Coinbase employee has been arrested for his alleged participation in an inside trading scheme. The main suspect was identified as Ishan Wahi, former product manager at this company.
2022-7-22 19:53 | |
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This week US prosecutors announced that six people have been indicted in four fraudulent NFT and crypto schemes involving more than $130 million in losses to investors. Included in the indictments were a Ponzi scheme, an ICO, investment fraud and an NFT scam.
2022-7-9 11:26 | |
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KeyFi Inc, a DeFi staking software developing firm, has filed a lawsuit against embattled crypto lending company Celsius Network over allegations of fraud while also alleging that the firm operated in a Ponzi-like manner.
2022-7-8 18:52 | |
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If successful, the DOJ could theoretically use the case as a model to police market manipulation for other assets, regardless of whether they are considered securities. Regulators are watching.
2022-6-11 01:58 | |
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The US Department of Justice has filed charges against a former product manager at leading NFT marketplace OpenSea for wire fraud and money laundering in what the DoJ called the “first-ever digital asset insider trading scheme.
2022-6-3 00:50 | |
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Nathaniel Chastain, a former employee of OpenSea was arrested this morning on wire fraud and money laundering charges. The Department of Justice has charged Chastain with insider trading. The First...
2022-6-2 21:45 | |
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A New York man has been arrested and charged with fraud for his role in alleged crypto investing scheme “EminiFX.”
2022-5-13 00:44 | |
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A New York man has been arrested and charged with fraud for his role in alleged crypto investing scheme “EminiFX.”
2022-5-13 00:44 | |
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The United States Department of Justice has unsealed an indictment charging Luiz Capuci Jr. , the CEO of Mining Capital Coin (MCC), for orchestrating a $62 million global investment and fraud scheme.
2022-5-10 15:30 | |
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The US Department of Justice charged Mining Capital Coin’s senior executive officer with conspiracy to commit a $62 million crypto investment scam. According to the DOJ complaint, Luiz Capuci and unnamed co-conspirators deceived investors over the profit-generating potential of MCC mining packages and a native token called Capital Coin, which was backed by the “largest […]
2022-5-9 12:11 | |
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“Capuci operated a fraudulent investment scheme and did not use investors’ funds to mine new cryptocurrency, as promised, but instead diverted the funds to cryptocurrency wallets under his control,” the DOJ stated.
2022-5-10 07:09 | |
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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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A Florida man has been indicted in a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme
2022-5-7 21:44 | |
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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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