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Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up A fraud victim in Winnipeg, Canada has lost more than $168,000 to a digital currency scam. The clincher? At the time of writing, much of the money has been gotten back, which is an odd outcome in situations like these. Canada Victim Gets a Lot of Money Returned Everyone knows that most of the time, once crypto...

An elderly man living in the East Lyme region of Connecticut has allegedly lost more than $60,000 in crypto to scammers at the time of writing. Police are now investigating to understand what happened. East Lyme Resident Loses a Lot of Cash and Crypto Michael Finkelstein – chief of the East Lyme Police Department – says crypto scams have become constant issues in his state, and that his department heads are receiving calls almost on a regular basis from people who...

Federal law enforcement agents have managed to take back as much as $24K from crypto scammers who had allegedly stolen the money from a resident of the Metro East area of Illinois. At the time of writing, no criminal evidence has been made public, and the agents have not made any arrests. Illinois Woman Is 75 Percent Victorious Crypto scams have become rather prominent in recent years, and with time, they just get bigger and bigger. Court records regarding the present...

Many former customers of Silicon Valley Bank have come close to falling victim to crypto scams. The cyberthieves seek to garner the victims’ bank account information, which includes their computer data. From there, they target their systems with malware as a means of mining crypto from their computers or stealing whatever digital assets they’ve put away. Silicon Valley Bank Customers Should Watch Out Silicon Valley Bank was one of three banks to be shut down in the past...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that a new way of tricking crypto fans and investors is making its way through illicit circles. The FBI Says the Latest Crypto Scam Targets Gamers The agency, in a statement, said many new pay-to-earn crypto platforms are ultimately stealing digital assets from those willing to try and invest or take part in company services. The way they do this is by offering fake rewards in both online and mobile games that users...

Residents of Egypt are angry after being taken advantage of and falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam last August known as Hogg Pool. Hogg Pool Was Probably Never Real A promotional video for the company said it was founded in the year 2019 in the state of Colorado, though regulators believe this is false information. It was touted as a presenter of crypto and blockchain technology investments. Plans through the company allowing customers to invest their cash and...

Three individuals – along with one business – have been charged with running a string of illegal cryptocurrency ATMs across the northern region of Ohio. The people arrested are 45-year-old Sonny Meraban, 75-year-old Reza Meraban, and 69-year-old William Suriano. Several Crypto ATMs Have Been Confiscated Two of the men were arrested in Chicago, while the other was arrested in Miami. Overall, the case was handled by 28 law enforcement agents who had garnered more than 50...

Patricia Ibarra is the most recent victim of a crypto scam. She feels bad about the situation, but even worse is that she got some of her own friends and family members involved in the scheme, which means she probably has guilt alongside the anger of being duped. Patricia Ibarra Was the Victim of a Crypto Scam The venture that stole money from Ibarra was called Crypto FX LLC. Based in Texas, the company promised anywhere between 15 and 20 percent returns to its...

Two 37-year-old Estonian citizens named Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin have been arrested after potentially defrauding hundreds of thousands of people in an alleged crypto scheme. The money lost at the time of writing is believed to exceed $575 million. Two Estonian Men Arrested for Crypto Fraud The scheme involved several false rental contracts, along with a fake bank and a crypto mining facility. The pair tricked customers into engaging in equipment rental contracts...

Avraham Eisenberg – a man from Puerto Rico – is set to face charges in a New York City courtroom after allegedly invoking a crypto fraud scheme that cost investors more than $110 million. Avraham Eisenberg Faces 40 Years in Jail The scam in question is known as Mango Markets, and it’s believed Eisenberg manipulated the prices of various assets and futures contracts to give customers and traders the idea that their portfolios were spiking. At the time of writing,...