Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 months ago
The Brazilian Federal Police carried out Operation Fantasos, with more than 50 officers executing 11 search and seizure warrants in various locations across Rio de Janeiro. The mastermind behind these activities was extradited from Switzerland to the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 10 months ago
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has ordered an Oregon resident and his entities to pay over $209 million in penalties for running Ponzi schemes disguised as crypto and carbon investment programs. This includes restitutio...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 11 months ago
Yang Bin, a 61-year-old Dutch national, was sentenced by a Singapore court to six years in prison and fined S$16,000 Singapore dollars for orchestrating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. Yang’s company, A&A Blockchain Innovation, falsely claim...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
United States Attorney Damian Williams and FBI Assistant Director James Smith announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Idin Dalpour with wire fraud concerning a multi-year crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of at least $43 million....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken legal action against 17 individuals allegedly involved in a Crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 40,000 victims and amassed $300 million.
As per the SEC’s press release, Houston-based...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 1 year ago
The authorities in the United States have busted the crypto Ponzi scheme called HyperFund that raised up to $1.89 billion from investors and brought civil and criminal charges against its Founder, Xue Lee (Sam Lee). The civil charges were brought by...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Marco Ochoa, ex-CEO of IcomTech, has been sentenced to five years in prison for wire fraud in a crypto Ponzi scheme, with a $914,000 forfeiture and two years of supervised release. (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Law authorities in the Indian state of Odisha successfully dismantled a crypto Ponzi scheme valued at $120 million (Rs 1000 crore). Reports unveiled that the state police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) arrested two key individuals at the core o...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
For any who’ve been around crypto long enough, you’re familiar with OneCoin and the “Crypto Queen” who ripped a lot of people off with her ponzi. Glad to see this scheme get dismantled, which reportedly was similar in operation to OneCoin’s pla...
by COINS NEWS - 2 years ago
Once cyberattacks are added to the mix, a total of $11.5 billion worth of crypto has been lost to bad actors last year. submitted by /u/diwalost [link] [comments]
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 2 years ago
According to a new report by TRM, more money was lost to cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes and scams throughout 2022 than to hacks and exploits. In the past year, crypto investors were scammed through various Ponzi schemes to the tune of at least $7.8 bil...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The founders and promoters of multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme Airbit Club have pleaded guilty to various criminal charges. Airbit Club victims were promised “guaranteed daily returns on any membership purchased,” the U.S....