2020-7-1 00:30 |
The National Police of Spain said vendors’ “purchase of virtual currency stands out.” They arrested 33 suspects across two parallel raids. origin »
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Lacking any central authority for either issuance or custody, Bitcoin has often been described as resistant to confiscation. Recent news out of Hong Kong highlights the importance of such qualities, particularly in an increasingly divided world.
2019-12-20 20:00 | |
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An engineering student in Illinois has put together a handy map to help pinpoint locations where police are tapped into Ring’s surveillance network. Ring, a company best known for smart doorbells and home security cameras, has a massive network of these cameras installed, some of which are being used for surveillance purposes by police in certain cities.
2019-8-10 03:27 | |
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An Australian citizen who ran an international crypto Ponzi scheme will face justice after police in India finally arrested him - but not before he defrauded victims out of $28 million. 'Hybrid crypto' with low risks and high returns India's Special Task Force (STF) arrested Sydney resident Harpreet Singh Sahni in a hotel near the […] The post $28 Million Crypto Ponzi Lands Morally Bankrupt Scammer in Jail appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-8 17:59 | |
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In an unfortunate mishap, Dutch police accidentally texted a link to an adult video to 1,900 witnesses of a house fire, which took place last month in the town of Nieuwleusen. In the text, police encouraged witnesses to come forward with information that could help them figure out what caused the fire, as a result of which a 22-year-old man lost his life.
2019-8-8 15:52 | |
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There are two kinds of people in the world: those who are happy to watch videos at 480P and those who will fight for every last pixel. If you’re in the latter camp, I have some good news for you: YouTube will now allow you to download videos for offline viewing in 1080p.
2019-8-4 06:34 | |
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For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. In April 2019, police in the UK introduced new consent forms asking sexual assault survivors for permission to access their personal information stored on their phones.
2019-7-23 15:01 | |
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Bitcoin’s tryst with regulatory authorities can be summarised as a game of cat and mouse. Created to subvert the financial system tethered to and controlled by sovereign powers, Bitcoin broke out as a rebellious tool that was soon shackled by undue regulations.
2019-7-12 22:30 | |
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Law enforcement agencies around the world have recently begun extricating themselves from expensive, ineffective predictive policing systems. The machine learning equivalent of psychic detectives, it turns out, simply doesn’t work.
2019-7-9 01:08 | |
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In a bid to enlighten high-ranking police personnel on the workings of blockchain technology and equip them with the critical skills required to carry out investigations concerning Bitcoin-linked crimes, India’s national police academy, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVPNPA), has introduced a new educational course, reports Hard Fork on July 7, 2019.
2019-7-9 23:00 | |
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Justin Sun and Tron had some strange news out this week regarding their potential entanglement with the Beijing police. However, on further review, it looks like the police are protecting the Tron building.
2019-7-9 22:05 | |
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Rumors have broken out on Twitter, and crypto Reddit after user Hayden Otto (@haydenotto_) tweeted a video showing the Tron HQ lobby full of at least nine law enforcement officers, and several angry bystanders.
2019-7-9 18:54 | |
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Rumors have broken out on Twitter, and crypto Reddit after user Hayden Otto (@haydenotto_) tweeted a video showing the Tron HQ lobby supposedly full of at least nine law enforcement officers, and several angry bystanders.
2019-7-8 18:54 | |
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In spite of repeated warnings by the country’s central bank, people in India continue to fall for cryptocurrency scams. In the latest, the anti-terrorist squad (ATS) of Rajasthan police has unearthed a Bitcoin scam worth INR 150 million ($2 million).
2019-6-27 12:55 | |
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By CCN Markets: A gang in India’s Madhya Pradesh state which scammed U. S. citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars through Bitcoin and other methods has been busted and its members arrested. The gang which ran its operations out of a call center is estimated to have made around $1.
2019-6-14 15:07 | |
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Welcome to CHEAP, our series about things that are good, but most of all, cheap. CHEAP! Everyone loves a little bit of on-the-go gaming. There’s little better than kicking back on a plane, train, or any other sort of transport, and losing yourself in a title.
2019-6-8 15:00 | |
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Since Vancouver police described Bitcoin ATMs as ‘an ideal money-laundering vehicle’, the council are considering banning them. Problem solved, eh? Misinformation… Meet Knee-jerk Reaction So Vancouver Mayor, Kennedy Stewart, has suggested that the city council will consider banning Bitcoin ATMs in the city.
2019-6-6 16:00 | |
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The Brazilian police recently arrested criminals in connection with a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme worth more than $200 million. The gang defrauded about 55,000 Brazilians by promising enormous profits afterward, local news media outlets reported on May 21st.
2019-5-25 04:03 | |
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In New York, Bitcoin scammers are impersonating Social Security Administrators. A report by The Next Web reveals the New York Police Department (NYPD) sent out a warning to the public, alerting them to fraudsters who call and ask for payment in bank wire transfers, bitcoin (BTC), and prepaid gift cards.
2019-5-3 20:00 | |
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According to the New York Police Department, the number of people duped out of Bitcoin and other assets thanks to a telephone scam has soared in 2019. It estimates that a massive $2 million has been fraudulently obtained from residents of the city.
2019-5-3 02:00 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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By CCN: The cast of “Empire” is asking that their “brother” Jussie Smollett be welcomed back into the cast of the Fox drama next season. Smollett had recently been written out of the current season’s finale, but his fellow actors are begging Disney to bring him back.
2019-4-26 01:01 | |
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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 | |
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The political spectrum is usually divided into four main categories: libertarian left, authoritarian left, libertarian right and authoritarian right. Those on the left prefer a more controlled economy, while those on the right have a preference for free markets.
2019-4-16 22:26 | |
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Coinspeaker Corruption or Political Clash? What Have Led to Betraying Julian Assange?The images of Metropolitan police dragging Julian Assange out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London made citizens around the world furious.
2019-4-15 11:02 | |
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Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder and a very early bitcoin supporter, has just been arrested by London’s Met police. URGENT Julian Assange did not "walk out of the embassy". The.
2019-4-11 13:06 | |
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Police have reportedly used AI to spot a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme in South Korea that cheated investors out of $18.5 million.
2019-4-8 14:20 | |
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As part of their latest investigative efforts, Canadian law enforcement authorities have frozen the assets owned by the founders of blockchain services company Vanbex. These efforts are in line with the probes that have been carried out by the government agency since 2017— when the aforementioned firm was able to raise a whopping $22 million […]
2019-4-1 18:05 | |
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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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The hole-punch on the new Samsung Galaxy S10 lineup might not be as obnoxious as a notch. But, in case you wanted to hide it anyway, there’s now an app that collects creative wallpapers designed to camouflage the phone‘s camera cutout.
2019-3-21 14:52 | |
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Crime isn’t supposed to pay, but sometimes the wages of sin are paid in bitcoin. Last week, Japanese police reported that 2018 saw a tenfold increase of cryptocurrency money laundering.
2019-3-20 16:49 | |
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Yesterday, Toronto police issued a statement requesting public help to locate four men suspected of carrying out a string of Bitcoin scams across Canada. Late last year, the Calgary police service received information relating to numerous fraudulent transactions made at Bitcoin ATMs that specifically target one Canadian Bitcoin company.
2019-3-14 12:23 | |
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Sunday, a Ukranian blockchain CEO got kidnapped in Kiev. Gregory Kucherkov is the CEO of Cornerstone, an effort to fund real estate investment with a blockchain token. Conerstone is planning an ICO.
2019-3-14 20:45 | |
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According to reports by CBC, double-spend attacks have taken place against Bitcoin ATMs in four Canadian cities. The attacks carried out by four men, entail 112 transactions. Though the identities of the perpetrators are not currently known, the Calgary police are requesting the public’s help in identifying them. The attacks were carried out at a […]
2019-3-13 18:36 | |
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27-year-old Sam Karagiozis has been named as the individual arrested on March 7 following raids carried out by the Australian Transactions Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) and Australian Federal Police.
2019-3-13 06:58 | |
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A bill proposed by the Texas legislature will require that all receivers of cryptocurrency in regular transactions verify the identity of the cryptocurrency sender before accepting any payment.
2019-3-12 01:04 | |
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Authorities have sentenced three criminals for robbing a group of Chinese businessmen in Dubai. The crooks stole over $250,000 (Dh1 million) from four businessmen after luring them to an apartment in Al Rafaa, Dubai at the end of March, local news reports.
2019-3-11 18:14 | |
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A Florida woman notorious in the Palm Beach area for allegedly running a prostitution business out of a chain of massage parlors called Tokyo Day Spas has been connected to Robert Kraft and President Donald Trump.
2019-3-11 22:31 | |
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Two cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia have been suspended following raids of the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC). One man has been arrested.
2019-3-8 21:00 | |
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The Australian Federal Police arrested a 27-year bitcoin exchange operator for running a drug distribution ring. The investigation dates back to 2017 when the AFP had arrested two Victorian men for importing drugs to Australia.
2019-3-9 14:05 | |
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As QuadrigaCX’s legal counsel descends on the courtroom in Halifax, Nova Scotia, for another round of legal proceedings, the court monitor’s third report on QuadrigaCX’s finances — specifically its revelation that the exchange’s cold wallets are empty — lays out some hopeful avenues for fund recovery — and some frustrating dead ends.
2019-3-5 20:20 | |
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At its developer conference last year, Facebook promised that it would bring dark mode to Messenger; it looks like the company’s rolling out the feature at last. However, As Android Police first noted, instead of enabling it through the settings menu, you’ll have to rely on an easter egg to switch on dark mode – both on Android and iOS – and it involves sending an emoji.
2019-3-4 08:39 | |
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When Coinbase acquired Neutrino for an unspecified amount in February 2019, the news looked like business as usual: A cryptocurrency juggernaut had made another acquisition.
2019-3-1 17:19 | |
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Suspicious financial transactions filed by Japan-based cryptocurrency exchanges increased ten times over the previous year, according to the National Police Agency. The central enforcement body said Feb 28 that 7,096 out of the total 417,465 suspected money laundering cases mentioned the use of cryptocurrencies in 2018.
2019-2-28 16:41 | |
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According to local police and the Hindu, a Mumbai resident named Pritam Patil stands accused of scamming 12 people out of around $250,000 in a crypto scam. Patil and a partner pestered a local businessman and his partners for months to invest in KBC Coin.
2019-2-27 01:17 | |
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Indian government can set as many restrictions on cryptocurrency trading in the country as it wants, but it seems the local fraudsters and con artists can’t be deterred. Police in India‘s financial hub Mumbai has booked a local resident Pritam Patil for duping $250,000 out of 12 people in an alleged cryptocurrency scam.
2019-2-26 14:23 | |
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Thirty people in Bangkok filed complaints with Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division after they were allegedly scammed by cryptocurrency cloud mining company CryptoMining. Farm, the Bangkok Post reported.
2019-2-20 06:50 | |
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Thirty people in Bangkok filed complaints with Thailand’s Technology Crime Suppression Division after they were allegedly scammed by cryptocurrency cloud mining company CryptoMining. Farm, the Bangkok Post reported.
2019-2-22 15:02 | |
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A virtual bitcoin mining farm in Thailand has allegedly scammed users out of 42 million baht (approximately $1. 35 million), according to a report in the Bangkok Post. 30 victims have filed a complaint against the company, CryptoMining.
2019-2-19 13:41 | |
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With Bitcoin up 2. 7 percent over the past week, the cryptocurrency market closed in the green this weekend. But is the trend here to stay or are the bears coming to leave investors bleeding yet again? Let’s take a look at the news and find out.
2019-2-18 13:09 | |
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U.S. authorities have arrested and charged a Taiwanese national with operating darknet drug bazaar Incognito Market, which he allegedly used to facilitate over $100 million in crypto-denominated sales of illegal narcotics including fentanyl.
Uzbekistan's law enforcers were educated on blockchain analysis topics and methods for seizing crypto.
The charges are reminiscent of events that took place during the "Silk Road" saga.
The Irish High Court has ruled to confiscate $56 million in Bitcoin from an alleged drug dealer after deeming the proceeds criminal