2020-7-28 04:51 |
A new indictment came down in the case involving three Canadians behind the alleged PlexCoin ICO scam which raised $8M in 2017.
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In a court filing submitted to the U. S District Court of Utah, the SEC is moving to freeze the assets of three participants in a cryptocurrency scam (Daniel F. Putnam, Jean Paul Ramirez Rico, Angel A.
2020-6-8 22:36 | |
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Three large amounts of XRP have been moved between anonymous wallets as Reddit discusses scammers who are using XRP to hunt for your seed phrase
2020-2-20 13:35 | |
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At first glance, the social discussion website Reddit appears to have joined the ranks crusade against Bitcoin. If you search the entire site for the word “scam”, one of the top three results is Bitcoin.
2020-1-8 00:00 | |
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Armchair theorists love postulating the reasons behind bitcoin’s latest price rise or sell-off. From China FUD to exchange hacks, anything and everything is fair game for blame. Plustoken is the latest bitcoin bear-maker that’s being credited with the last three months of downward price action.
2019-11-29 05:50 | |
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The trial of an American lawyer accused of laundering money for the notorious OneCoin pyramid scheme, began in New York yesterday. The lawyer is the first of three key players in the scam to face trial.
2019-11-6 19:39 | |
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Crypto developer Jimmy Song has tweeted that many ‘marketing experts” who enter the crypto space end up working for scam projects. Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Them Crypto author, Song, posted on Twitter yesterday three points.
2019-10-22 17:00 | |
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The PayFair project, an Ethereum-based startup that has been around for about three years, closed its site temporarily due to a compromised private key on its chief cold wallet. The funds were moved from the hacked wallet into a still unrevealed new cold storage.
2019-10-3 22:00 | |
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As the multi-billion dollar OneCoin cryptocurrency pyramid scheme continues to tumble, news of witnesses set to testify against the scam’s perpetrators are now coming to light. According to Finance Feeds, employees of the Bank of Ireland have been asked to testify in the case against Mark Scott, one of the alleged figureheads of the $3 billion-plus OneCoin scam.
2019-9-30 17:30 | |
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A cryptocurrency pyramid with the name of either Bitcoin Code or Bitcoin Profit is distributed on the Web with shameless impudence, evoking Dr. Goebbels’s tricks. British The Mirror has published an “exclusive interview” with Kate Winslet, the world-famous screen star.
2019-9-26 17:31 | |
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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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By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price has dropped by more than 16 percent within three days, slipping below $10,000, a level that has been regarded as a key psychological level by many investors. While some analysts have suggested that the sell-off of bitcoin from the operators of a scam in China may have fueled the […] The post Bitcoin Price Plunges to $9,610 in Violent 16% Pullback: What Caused the Collapse? appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-8-15 09:29 | |
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Australian police have charged five people in connection with a protracted cold call cryptocurrency investment scam that tricked more than 100 victims into losing $2. 7 million. The scam, which operated from Australia‘s Gold Coast, was busted as part of ‘Operation Quebec Walnut.
2019-8-8 14:21 | |
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After the arrest of Konstantin Ignatova, brother to the highly sought-after CEO of OneCoin, those who fell for the scam are already in court. One of them, believed to have lost more than $700,000 in the scam, has filed a lawsuit, suing the Ponzi scheme.
2019-7-11 17:43 | |
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Following Coinroom, Bitsane is the second crypto exchange that has pulled an exit scam in the past three months, leaving up to 246,000 users as victims of fraud. Image source: Facebook It Started With a ‘Technical Issue’ Bitsane victims reported to Forbes that users had problems withdrawing cryptocurrencies from the exchange in May.
2019-6-29 16:08 | |
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It’s the start of a new week and that means it’s time for Moonday Mornings, Hard Fork’s wrap-up of the top cryptocurrency and blockchain headlines from the weekend. 1. Local news in South Africa is reporting about a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.
2019-6-17 11:47 | |
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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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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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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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An self-styled cryptocurrency mining company from Luxembourg has fielded multiple scam accusations after it emerged its executives do not exist. Critics Say OnMiners Claims Too Good to Be True OnMiners, which purports to produce three mining rigs with vastly superior hash power to market competitors, used stock photos and likely fake names for its leadership on its website.
2019-3-20 14:00 | |
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Bitcoin Scammers From Pakistan Steal $250,000 From Chinese Businessmen And Receive Jail Sentence Three criminals from Pakistan have been sentenced to one year in prison each after participating in a Bitcoin (BTC) scam.
2019-3-12 22:34 | |
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A New York Man has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary transactions after peddling a false coin to investors, the Department of Justice revealed on February 27, 2019.
2019-3-2 20:00 | |
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On November 15, 2018, a hard fork happened on the Bitcoin Cash network, resulting to a split into two chains that gave rise to two separate cryptocurrencies – Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV (Satoshi Vision).
2019-2-15 15:40 | |
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According to the latest court documents in the ongoing QuadrigaCX case, the exchange sent roughly $470,000 CAD (approximately $355, 000 USD) worth of bitcoin from a hot wallet to a cold-storage wallet on February 6, 2019.
2019-2-13 03:56 | |
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Investors say they were promised profits after three months of mining Filecoin.
2019-1-8 22:51 | |
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Cubits, a London-based digital asset trading platform, has been forced into administration after fraudsters reportedly stole €29 million (about $32. 5 million) from the exchange in February. The company claimed “it fell victim” to an elaborate scam orchestrated in collusion with three of its clients.
2018-12-14 21:00 | |
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Scammers using misleading advertisements for a fake crypto brokerage service have managed to swindle members of the Singaporean public out of around $78,000 in the span of three months.
2018-12-6 13:59 | |
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Singapore authorities recent report that residents have lost about $78,000 to fraudulent online platforms in three months. Online Cryptocurrency Scam Using Fake Personalities The Straits Times reports that Singapore residents have fallen victim to some online Bitcoin scams in a couple of months, losing up to $78,000 between September and November 2018.
2018-12-6 11:44 | |
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A businessman from Chandigarh, India, has lost approximately $1. 4 million in a fraud masked as a potentially profitable bitcoin investment, reported The Times of India on November 22, 2018. During the police investigation, four people in total were arrested, one potentially being the key figure in the fraud and the other three his accomplices.
2018-11-24 20:00 | |
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According to an analyst, Singaporean blockchain payment platform TenX is a scam and is not fulfilling promises made to investors and backers. Larry Cermak, the one levelling allegations, said he is “amazed there has not been a class action lawsuit yet”.
2018-11-19 22:40 | |
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Bitcoin is in the news, and we’ve all seen the stories about early investors who’ve made millions and driven away in new lambos. So it’s only natural that people who haven’t invested already are wondering if they should.
2018-9-21 19:18 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board issued three emergency cease and desist orders Tuesday, Sept. 18, to shut down a Russian cryptocurrency scam, charge DigitalBank and two principals for threatening immediate and irreparable harm to the public, and charge a forex and Bitcoin trader of guaranteeing false ROIs, respectively.
2018-9-19 13:00 | |
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U. S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut has announced Homero Joshua Garza (Josh Garza) has been sentenced to “21 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, the first six months of which [Mr.
2018-9-14 16:40 | |
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According to The Indian Express, Amit Bhardwaj, the Bitcoin scam mastermind, threw expensive parties and investor summits in Dubai and Macau only to deceive his investors of their funds. Bitcoin Scammer Tricks Investors by Throwing Lavish Parties Three of the 16 investors who lodged a complaint with the Chandigarh Police stated that they were cheated of almost Rs15 Crore (approximately...The post %%POSTLINK%% appeared first on %%BLOGLINK%%.
2018-8-30 07:00 | |
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As India still remains uncertain regarding its regulatory framework for digital currency operations, a number of high-profile fraud cases involving Bitcoin have come to light. Police authorities from the Indian State of Chandigarh recently arrested Amit Bharadwaj for his role in a multicrore Bitcoin scam, reports local publication The Indian Express.
2018-8-27 04:00 | |
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An investor in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) as well as employees in no less than three banks have been implicated in the $24 million Bitcoin scam involving actor Jiratpisit “Boom” Jaravijit.
2018-8-17 02:55 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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Crypto companies are among the most affected by audio and video deepfake frauds in 2024, with more than half reporting incidents in a recent survey. According to the survey conducted by forensic services firm Regula, 57% of crypto companies reported being victims of audio fraud, while 53% of the respondents fell for fake video scams.
Some service providers are facilitating transactions for fraud outfits and high-risk gambling sites, the report said.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has joined forces with federal and private organizations to combat the surge in crypto scams known as “pig butchering,” according to a Sept.
Stolen funds and ransomware amounted to over $2 billion in illicit crypto transactions in 2024, according to Chainalysis. Despite an overall 20% decline in illicit on-chain activity year-to-date, these two categories have seen significant growth.
Onchain Highlights DEFINITION: This metric shows the 30-day change in the regional price set during Asia working hours, i. e. , between 8 am and 8 pm China Standard Time (00:00-12:00 UTC). Bitcoin’s price performance in Asian markets has experienced substantial fluctuations in 2024, influenced by key macroeconomic and crypto-specific factors.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against NovaTech Ltd. , its founders, and several people who promoted the firm for orchestrating a fraudulent scheme that victimized over 200,000 investors worldwide.
It’s unclear at this time whether illicit activity has taken place, but a series of red flags has brought the token under scrutiny.