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The US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) said that the $15.3 million that a Nigerian scammer stole from two Chicago-based firms might not be recovered because the funds were converted to Bitcoin.Alleged Nigerian Scammer Arrested, But He Apparently Doesn’t Reveal Bitcoin KeysNigerian media reported that Olalekan Jacob Ponle, nicknamed Woodberry, organized large-scale business email compromise (BEC) schemes. He targeted employees of two Chicago-based firms and manipulated them to conduct...

A 52-year-old Singaporean man has been found guilty of promoting the infamous OneCoin cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme more than three years ago.Man to Pay $72,000 As FineAccording to reports by local media The Straits Times, Fok Fook Seng, a middle-age Singaporean citizen, was convicted for engaging in marketing activities that link to OneCoin between January 2016 and June 2017.Fook Seng was charged in April 2019 for breaching the Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Selling (Prohibition) Act....

An SEC suit against allegedly fraudulent ICO was recently put on pause by US federal judge. Prosecutors have interfered because a parallel criminal investigation against the alleged scammers was also on the go.The Court Put On Hold A $30 Million Crypto Investment ScamA New Jersey Federal Judge has ordered the pause of SEC’s proceedings against Edith Pardo and Boaz Manor. Recently they were alleged by the Security and Exchange Commission to have raised “over $30 million” through the crypto...

Over $180 million worth of Ethereum has been moved from a previously dormant wallet belonging to the perpetrators of the PlusToken scam.PlusToken was a Ponzi scheme that operated mainly in Korea and China in 2018 and 2019. The scammers managed to siphon over $3 billion from naive investors before the project was shut down in June 2019.$180M Worth of Ethereum On the MoveThe movement of 789,534 ETH from the Plus Token scam wallet was announced on Wednesday, June 24, by cryptocurrency monitoring...

The perpetrators behind the alleged cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme PlusToken have transferred over 26 million EOS tokens from one of the wallets linked to the project to an unknown address.Historically, similar events have driven down the price of the moved asset, which brings the question if there will be any short-term consequences for EOS.PlusToken Withdraw 26M EOSThe Chinese project began a few years ago as a cryptocurrency wallet offering suspiciously high return rates to its users. To...

Robert Farkas, the co-founder of Centra Tech, is one of the lead defendants on a massive case, including securities and wire scam, and a fraudulent ICO, raising more than $25 million, according to the FBI.Farkas Plead Guilty, Co-Defendants Set On Another TrialAccording to the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the co-founder of crypto start-up Centra Tech Robert Farkas pled guilty in court on charges of conspiring and committing securities and wire...

The Jakarta Metro Police have arrested US national Russ Albert Medlin, considered to be the unofficial owner of the large cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme BitClub Network. The police acted after receiving a tip that Medlin has been involved in a child prostitution ring.BitClub Network Owner Arrested In IndonesiaThe Jakarta Metro Police’s Cyber Crimes Directorate captured Medlin in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, on Sunday, a report informed. On the day of the arrest, police officers intercepted and...

A recent report warns of a scam that clones a legitimate service offering private, encrypted, and self-destructive messages, to alter BTC addresses and ultimately steal funds from unsuspecting victims.Stealing BTC By Altering AddressesAccording to the report by KrebsonSecurity, a fraudulent website called Privnotes has been impersonating Privnote.com for about a year. Users are typically utilizing the legitimate service Privnote.com (without the “s”) because it offers encrypted messages that...

A recent cryptocurrency scam running live on YouTube managed to dupe nearly $150,000 in Bitcoin from victims. Interestingly, the scam impersonated Elon Musk’s SpaceX channel and broadcasted recorded videos of the recent successful launch of two astronauts to the International Space Station.SpaceX And BTC Giveaway ScamFraudsters are frequently attempting to dupe victims with a form of a cryptocurrency giveaway. Oftentimes, they use a widely-popular current event to connect with the fake...

Fraudulent projects within the cryptocurrency field are occurring rather often, and the latest one comes in the form of Bitgrin (XBG), according to a recent report. It reads that the project creator has minted 5 billion tokens while advertising that the total supply is capped at 21 million.Bitgrin’s Creator Scammed Investors?Bitgrin launched as a fork of Grin and advertised itself as a “magically private cryptocurrency.” Interestingly, it has similarities with Bitcoin as both are set to have...