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Instagram celebrity Jebara Igbara has pled guilty to running a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme involving bitcoin. Jebara Igbara Guilty of Crypto Ponzi Scheme Igbara – who has amassed several million followers on social media – entered a guilty plea for his alleged crimes and could be sentenced to as many as ten full years in a federal prison. Often going by the name Jay Mazini, Igbara is 27 years of age and has built a reputation for being a generous person. His social pages often feature...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged 11 individuals for their roles in an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that may have taken as much as $300 million from investors. A Crypto Ponzi Scheme Has Been Shut Down The Ponzi scheme – which operated under the name Forsage – had been in operation for more than two years at the time the charges were filed. The founders – along with several individuals that had been hired as promoters – were then thoroughly...

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against a company in South Africa and its head executive for allegedly running the biggest crypto-based Ponzi scheme in recorded history. It is believed the firm may have run a commodity pool composed of nearly $2 billion in bitcoin, though the pool is slated to have been fraudulent. It is also believed that the company violated registration protocols. A CFTC Investigation Is Underway The enterprise –...

The cryptocurrency space has often been wrought with fraud, which has caused problems for both regulators and traders. In the state of Texas, a new crypto-based Ponzi scheme has come about that has ultimately caused the area’s securities commissioner to step in. There’s a New Crypto Ponzi Scheme in Texas Travis J. Iles has issued an emergency cease and desist order to stop what he is referring to as a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading program. Those allegedly guilty of...

Mirror Trading International (MTI) – a cryptocurrency investment company – has been accused by Anonymous ZA, a South African research group, of being a fraudulent firm and potentially looking to scam people out of their digital funds.MTI: We Will Be Pursuing Legal ActionMTI is now fighting back and claiming that the company’s alleged findings – which have all been compiled into a recent report – are not only false, but are designed specifically to slander the company and are not backed up by...

China has arrested more than 100 separate individuals who may have taken part in the Plus Token scam that resulted in more than $1 billion in stolen crypto funds.Plus Token Is One of the Biggest Ponzi SchemesInitially based in South Korea, Plus Token was designed to be a “high-yield” investment plan that allegedly offered massive funds for all who took part. As much as 18 percent yield was promised to investors from both South Korea and China granted that they were willing to store...

Perhaps one of the biggest – and scariest – mysteries to emerge from the cryptocurrency space over the past few years has been the rise and fall of Quadriga CX, a cryptocurrency exchange in Canada that now has an undoubtedly shady history behind it.Quadriga CX Will Probably Always Live in InfamyAt one point, Quadriga CX was one of the largest cryptocurrency trading platform in Canada, but now the company has been marred by controversy and a lot of angry people who cannot seemingly get their...

Law enforcement has taken three men into custody over what sources are calling the biggest crypto scam in history.The “Biggest” Scam Is in the BooksMatthew Brent Goettsche and Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks from Colorado along with Frank Abel from California have been arrested for initiating a cryptocurrency scam through a fake company called Bit Club Network that may have cheated investors out of $722 million in crypto funds. If the numbers are accurate, Bit Club outdoes the money stolen or lost in...

It seems like Ponzi schemes and fraud are a recurring event in the cryptocurrency space, and one exchange in South Korea known as Coin Up is the latest venture to allegedly try its hand at stealing people’s crypto.Coin Up: A Wolf In Sheep’s ClothingThe CEO of Coin Up, as well as several additional executives who worked with the company, have been found guilty in a Korean court of defrauding users out of nearly $385 million in digital currency funds. All those tried have been given sentences...