2019-12-4 19:28 |
This exit scam purportedly cost investors $3 billion, and now could be dropping the crypto price market
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The third-largest Ponzi scam in history, Plus Token Wallet, could be responsible for the drop in price Bitcoin saw last week. According to one analyst, the massive liquidation from the Plus Token scam caused an abnormal effect on the market, leading to an increased sell pressure that forced miners to capitulate way ahead of schedule.
2019-11-27 15:58 | |
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The bitcoin price rally in the summer of 2019 may have been the work of PlusToken investors. The scam, highly influential in China, but largely invisible to Western traders and social media, benefited greatly from the hype and growing BTC prices.
2019-11-27 15:24 | |
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While the rest of the crypto market slowly bleeds away one cryptocurrency, dubbed Storeum, cites a 11310% weekly gain week. But is it a scam? The post This Cryptocurrency Is Up 11310% in a Week. Legit Scam or Just Legit? appeared first on CCN.com
2019-11-26 18:09 | |
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Ever since Bitcoin’s bottom at $3,100, the crypto market has been convinced that the first-ever crypto asset was building a foundation for its next bull run. But a powerful parabolic rally this year was unable to set a new all-time high, putting a new bull run in jeopardy.
2019-11-21 22:00 | |
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A businessman from Brooklyn went to jail for a year and a half for two scam ICOs. The time of gangster lawlessness on the crypto market has ended. Crypto criminals get what they deserve. We are talking about projects built on Ponzi scheme: RECoin and Diamond Reserve Club. The first project was announced as “First […]
2019-11-21 20:47 | |
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High-Performance Blockchain (HPB) with a market cap of $5 million recently announced a new decentralized governance system on its network, where the community members would have a larger say in the governance process.
2019-11-11 21:15 | |
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Bitfinex is a full-featured cryptocurrency exchange that is trusted by millions of traders all around the world. The company first entered the market in 2012, and has enjoyed steady expansion ever since.
2019-11-13 17:10 | |
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Last week, BTCManager reported that a new mining rig from BitHarp was set to revolutionize mining with an efficiency that is an order of magnitude above anything else in the market. It has come to our attention that this is indeed a fraudulent product offering with vastly deceiving specs and information, October 2, 2019.
2019-10-2 15:19 | |
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A new crypto scam has appeared. According to Cointelegraph, this new scam uses fake articles to advertise a non-existent platform and uses the names of several famous people such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates and Richard Branson.
2019-9-24 23:05 | |
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The transfer of Bitcoin to a well-known sextortion scam’s wallet resulted in a complaint being filed against the wallet address 1MPtCfynYQjJSCzzXC5t9JEsrsacPMF28H. This was 49th report filed.
2019-9-12 11:30 | |
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After stellar gains in 2019, Chainlink is sitting at 20th place on CMC with a market cap of $625 mln
2019-9-11 10:22 | |
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Going by the market price today, 10 million ETH is equal to about $2 billion USD. this is the much that PlusToken Ponzi scheme is alleged to have stolen from more than 800,000 people in ETH alone. The theft of the funds has remained a mystery even when it came to the public limelight, it […]
2019-8-25 23:07 | |
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The third largest Ponzi scam in history, Plus Token Wallet, allegedly scammed investors out of $3 billion in cryptocurrency. Over $2. 1 billion of this is in Bitcoin. As the perpetrators make their exit these coins could flood the market and tank prices.
2019-8-21 21:04 | |
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For the uninformed, cryptocurrency is synonymous with scam. For the rest of us, it is a thriving, dynamic market that boasts unprecedented growth and practically unlimited potential. The rate at which the market has grown over the past few years has not just attracted savvy investors.
2019-8-19 16:34 | |
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A recent report by The Tie. io highlighted over-hyped cryptocurrencies on Twitter, and the details are not surprising. Less popular cryptocurrencies with low trading volumes exhibited high “Hype-to-Activity” ratios on Twitter, a social media platform that has become a battleground for scam bots and FUD stompers of the cryptocurrency market.
2019-8-16 21:30 | |
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We present Orionix, a comission-free games and items exchange platform along with ORX token that covers operational costs by minting its own native currency. The project aims to facilitate communication, exchange and security between players.
2019-8-16 16:03 | |
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The fraudulent times over the ICO world have long gone, scam projects have sunk into oblivion, where only serious companies have survived on the market. However, Karatbars, a company that claims ownership of real gold mines in Guiana and Madagascar, at one time released tokens that are supposedly backed by the “gold standard.
2019-7-30 05:57 | |
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“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 | |
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Scammers are trying to steal users’ funds by promoting fake giveaways This is a similar strategy as the one used in 2017 by many scammers As the cryptocurrency market continues to expand, it seems that new scammers are trying to take advantage of the renewed interest in Bitcoin (BTC) and other virtual currencies. One of […]
2019-7-15 17:24 | |
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According to a Forbes article published on June 27, 2019, Irish cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane has suspiciously disappeared from the market leaving almost 246,000 users without their digital assets.
2019-6-29 19:00 | |
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An alleged moderator of AlphaBay, a dark web marketplace, has been indicted for facilitating sales on the site before law enforcement shut it down as a result of Operation Bayonet. According to court documents, the moderator received numerous payments in Bitcoin.
2019-6-25 11:24 | |
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American cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has had a rather interesting relationship with the market, balancing between being an actual exchange and having a flawed system for liquidity. However, it seems to have found itself in more trouble, but not with Peter Brandt, like it has in the past. Instead, it appears that malicious actors are using […]
2019-6-23 00:16 | |
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Users of the BiteBTC exchange are reporting missing funds and blocked accounts. The platform replied to emails from AMBCrypto to explain the issues they are facing. The cryptocurrency market goes in waves, but the majority of altcoins follow the trend that Bitcoin ends up taking.
2019-6-17 17:13 | |
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The cryptocurrency market saw the prices of most cryptocurrencies follow the piped piper, Bitcoin, as it broke the $9,200 resistance. However, few users of BiteBTC exchange could not enjoy this price hike as they were unable to use their accounts or even withdraw their cryptos from the exchange.
2019-6-16 17:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency is already a rather controversial industry, made only worse by the drama that surrounds it. Another story of money laundering has reached the market, coming directly from the Samoan Seventh Day Adventist Church in New Zealand.
2019-6-15 18:03 | |
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Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionize the African continent. Through Bitcoin, millions of unbanked Africans will have access to financial services. These and many more such statements exist across the internet.
2019-6-1 21:48 | |
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The recent cryptocurrency market surge has attracted a lot of attention. Not just because people are making good money, but also because criminals smell new opportunities to scam users. A new report by ESET confirms at least two fake cryptocurrency wallets were available for download on the Google Play Store.
2019-5-25 23:00 | |
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The purpose of this infographic is to visualize the size of large cryptocurrency hacks that have occurred in the past as if they all happened today. The hacks included in this infographic extend beyond exchanges, as there were other large entities that experienced cryptocurrency hacks, such as marketplaces like Silk Road 2.
2019-5-25 21:56 | |
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Криптовалютную биржу Cobinhood обвиняют в мошенничестве. В прошлом месяце дочерняя компания DEXON Foundation через токенсейл DXN привлекла $3 млн, но уже 20 мая биржа объявила о банкротстве. Classy exit scam from @COBINHOOD & @dexonfoundation (same company).
2019-5-21 15:25 | |
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By CCN: Google searches for bitcoin have climbed to a 13-month high, in tandem with its price spikes following the brutal 2018 crypto bear market. Google Trends tracks search interest for certain terms.
2019-5-20 17:45 | |
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This article was originally published by 8btc and written by Lylian Teng. The bitcoin price has broken $8,000 for the first time since July 2018, with most cryptocurrencies trading in the green.
2019-5-15 19:01 | |
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The French AMF released an annual report, revealing 14,000% more fraudulent crypto schemes since 2016. The AMF has issued over 150 public warnings regarding bad actors in the crypto industry since March 2018.
2019-5-8 02:45 | |
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A recent article published by U.Today, predicted a Bitcoin bull run could happen sometime soon especially because the coin still shot past $5,500 regardless of the story that recently shocked the market when it was revealed that Tether and Bitfinex through their parent company, iFinex, was involved in an $850 million scam. The article showed […]
2019-5-5 23:40 | |
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The dark web platform Wall Street Market, which underwent a complete crash weeks ago before finally being pulled by authorities, is now being tied to a Bitcoin or cryptocurrency exit scam. Wall Street Market, which.
2019-5-4 23:05 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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Following the demise of the Silk Road – the world’s first modern darknet market – a number of successors… The post Silk Road Successor Pulls $30M Exit Scam and Threatens Users To Pay Bitcoin appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-3 23:35 | |
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A recent police investigation that involved Bitcoin machines at the Tampines One Mall in Singapore, was able to save an individual from scammers. The fraudsters impersonated officials and scammed users in the market.
2019-4-29 23:12 | |
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Criminals buying and selling contraband on the Wall Street Market are hurting now that there is irrefutable evidence the platform's administrators absconded with over $14. 2 million in user funds.
2019-4-26 20:10 | |
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После того, как о закрытии в апреле сообщил самый популярный рынок дарквеба Dream Market, настал черёд ещё одного популярного маркетплейса, Wall Street Market (WSM), причём не обошлось без скандала.
2019-4-24 16:47 | |
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By CCN. com: Just one month after a coordinated global law enforcement operation executed a sweeping takedown of dark web drug dealers, rumors are swirling that a popular dark-net market has allegedly attempted a major exit scam.
2019-4-23 08:30 | |
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According to some reports, the darknet market (DNM) users that moved from Dream to the Wall Street marketplace have been exit scammed for over $30 million in virtual currencies held in escrow. Users And Vendors Complain About A Possible Exit Scam The largest darknet market on the deep web called Dream market shut down its […]
2019-4-21 18:34 | |
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During the first week of April, news.Bitcoin.com reported on a large swarm of darknet market (DNM) users flocking from Dream to the Wall Street marketplace. However, the migration hasn’t been as successful as it may have first seemed, with some vendors alleging that Wall Street has pulled an exit scam and ran off with $30 […] The post Darknet Users Allege Wall Street Market Exit Scammed, Possibly Snatching $30M appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-4-21 01:18 | |
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IP2PGO App is an escrow P2P marketplace where users can trade ERC20 tokens using local fiat currency. Launched in Oct 2018, it is now available as localised Apps in 11 countries with over 4800 users.
2019-4-20 03:33 | |
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Vestchain (VEST) just burst into the top hundred cryptocurrencies by market cap after 382% growth in the past twenty-four hours. However, a glance at the project’s Bitcointalk forum page reveals something fishy to be afoot, and there’s ample reason to believe that Vestchain might be a scam.
2019-4-8 14:45 | |
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Blockchain-based prediction market Augur is reeling from revelations that a bad actor has taken advantage of platform loopholes to create scam markets and profitably game the system
2019-4-2 23:00 | |
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Justin Sun, Founder and CEO of the 11th largest market cap coin TRON, has faced huge criticism for a botched competition, which saw the winner of a brand new Tesla car publicly announced and then swiftly revoked, leaving confusion for the winner, and many accusing Sun of running a scam.
2019-3-29 15:34 | |
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Gold and bitcoins worth of hundreds of thousands of euros are the spoils of an elaborate online fraud discovered by the postal police in Liguria, Italy. Bitcoin Scam Artist Impersonated Swiss Crypto Firm Local sources reported that the Italian authorities recently arrested a Genoa-based computer expert who entangled his victims by exploiting encrypted communication channels and false identities found on the darknet.
2019-3-22 20:16 | |
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Decentralized betting protocol Augur is dealing with a situation: fraudsters can illegitimately profit by gaming the system, and there’s not much its devs can do about it (for now). Augur co-founder Joey Krug recently addressed community concerns about scammers taking over the platform.
2019-3-21 21:56 | |
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Japanese regulators have reportedly approved draft amendments to the country's financial instruments and payment services laws, introducing stricter regulations for margin trading of digital assets.
2019-3-21 21:27 | |
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Federal prosecutors have charged five alleged members of “Scattered Spider,” a hacking group accused of targeting companies and individuals in a spree of cyberattacks. According to court documents unsealed Wednesday in California, the defendants allegedly stole sensitive data and at…
Federal prosecutors in Boston have indicted Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national and founder of Gotbit, on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation. According to the U.
AlixPartners and Chainalysis have teamed up to enhance cryptocurrency compliance and forensic investigation services, addressing growing fraud risks. AlixPartners, a financial advisory firm recognized for its work in high-profile restructurings, announced a collaboration with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis to strengthen…
This week, a major crypto fraud trial involving over €28 million ($30 million) in stolen funds opened in Nancy, France. The trial is expected to last a month. More than 20 defendants are implicated in a scheme targeting football clubs…
Zhimin Qian, also known as Yadi Zhang, has pleaded not guilty to laundering Bitcoin in a London court. According to Bloomberg, Qian, a Chinese national, was arrested in April and charged with two counts of money laundering. The UK’s Criminal…
Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Athens, Alabama, was arrested in connection with the January 2024 hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account. Council’s hack resulted in the false pretense that the SEC had approved Bitcoin exchange-traded…
Have crypto fraudsters infiltrated the local government in Asia? It seems the answer is yes as information linking a former Philippine mayor to a crypto scam group operating in Asia surfaced. This is an indicator of the growing concern about crypto scam rings in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, which might have gained a foothold […]