Cryptocoins News / NewsBTC - 2 years ago
Ethereum is the second-largest cryptocurrency after Bitcoin. Although the majority of crypto transactions are legitimate, many are also fraudulent. Criminals take advantage of the anonymous and international nature of digital currencies. These crimes...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
British detectives have seized $22.25 million from operators of an international cryptocurrency scam. Among the items seized was a USB stick containing ethereum worth $9.5 million. The police are now attempting to contact the victims of this scam to...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
A Brazilian federal court ordered the sale of a bitcoin stash worth $1.1 million. The sale was conducted by the largest regulated exchange in the country, Mercado Bitcoin. The Federal Police seized the bitcoin sold from Tradergroup, a company that al...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Polish police have uncovered a secret crypto mining operation at their headquarters in Warsaw, local media reported. An IT specialist accused of minting digital coins on police computers has been dismissed and the case has been handed over to the Pro...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
Police in Malaysia are alleged to have destroyed over 1,000 mining machines at the end of last week
In a rather unusual incident, authorities in Malaysia have steamrolled millions of dollars worth of crypto mining equipment. A video clip doing the ro...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 2 years ago
Four men have been arrested in Aichi Prefecture for allegedly running a fraudulent crypto scheme that drew in 20,000 Japanese investors and raised 6 billion yen. Four...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Four alleged masterminds of the “Oz Project” have been arrested after duping investors across Japan for at least four years. According to investigators, the scheme raked in $55 million from about 20,000 investors, promising 2.5 times retu...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Britain’s Metropolitan Police have seized a staggering £180 million in cryptocurrency as part of a money laundering investigation. The announcement comes just weeks after Scotland Yard confiscated £114 million in crypto, breaking th...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
This is the second and the largest crypto seizure by the UK police in just three weeks, with the total amount of confiscated crypto now over $408 million.
UK police have announced another cryptocurrency seizure, this time larger than the last such co...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph β - 2 years ago
Miners used an empty warehouse of an electricity supply company to plug into the grid and mine crypto on a variety of devices, including gaming consoles. Ukrainian au...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
Claudio Oliveira has been accused of masterminding a fraudulent scheme in which over 20,000 customers allegedly lost 7,000 BTC.
Brazilian police have arrested Claudio Oliveira, also known as “Bitcoin King,” as the mastermind of a scheme t...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 2 years ago
The Metropolitan Police have not specified the types of cryptocurrencies seized during the operation.
Police in the UK have reportedly seized over £114 million ($158 million) worth of cryptocurr...