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In a move that many would say was a long time coming, the SEC has charged Tron founder Justin Sun, his companies, and a host of celebrities with multiple counts of fraud and breaches of securities laws. origin »
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is facing additional charges in the latest superseding indictment unsealed on February 23. The post SBF facing multiple fraud, conspiracy charges in unsealed superseded indictment appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2023-2-24 21:22 | |
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OneCoin founder Karl Sebastian Greenwood has been found guilty of multiple charges, according to a statement from the United States Department of Justice on December 16. The post OneCoin co-founder pleads guilty on fraud, money laundering charges appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-12-17 01:30 | |
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Web3 fraud detection start-ups combat malicious actors by merging multiple technologies that leverage machine learning and artificial intelligenc The post Top Web3 Fraud Detection Start-Ups to Watch appeared first on NFT News Today.
2022-12-14 20:26 | |
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Brazil’s Federal Police and the United States Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the help of multiple other enforcement agencies have busted a global crypto fraud ring, according to a press release issued by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on October 6.
2022-10-10 14:15 | |
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Last week, a columnist described Terraform Labs' co-founder Do Kwon as “the Elizabeth Holmes of Crypto.”
2022-5-19 16:35 | |
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A noted master scammer and serial con artist Peter Foster has been arrested for multiple money laundering charges, including the theft of $1. 73 million worth of bitcoins. Foster stole the said amount of bitcoins from a Hong Kong businessman named Konstantinos Stylianopoulos.
2020-8-26 00:24 | |
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Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer, prosecutors in Frankfurt revealed this week. The case is part of multiple investigations carried out across Germany, the hardest hit country in a notorious tax fraud scandal known as the Cum-ex Files.
2020-1-22 19:40 | |
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A Thai man who called himself the “cryptocurrency wizard” was arrested in Bangkok today, in relation to a 500 million baht cryptocurrency exchange fraud. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, 48-year old Mana Jumuang was part of a Thai-Vietnamese criminal group that duped thousands of people across multiple Asian countries.
2019-9-6 22:30 | |
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Centra Tech ICO Lawsuit Removes DJ Khaled And Floyd Mayweather As Defendants Centra Tech lawsuit dismisses multiple parties from being held responsible, including Floyd Mayweather, DJ Khaled, the CTO of Centra Tech, and the Director of PR for Centra Tech.
2019-5-18 20:47 | |
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Cloud with Me launched ICO for Cloud Token to fund new cloud computing platform. Multiple sources suggest that these efforts are a scam, and the website is defunct. The use of cloud technology is hardly a new concept.
2019-5-12 18:43 | |
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Fraud in the cryptocurrency industry is one of the sorest subjects, and the recent theft at the hands of two Nigerian nationals has not helped the case. TNW Hard Fork recently reported on these two fraudsters that have managed to complete multiple Bitcoin investments scams, taking $50,000 in Bitcoin from the hands of investors. Even […]
2019-4-26 17:06 | |
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Vanbex group, a consultancy involved with multiple blockchain projects, is allegedly facing an investigation into alleged token sale fraud.
2019-4-1 16:02 | |
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On March 9–10, 2019, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hosted a two-day event, the MIT Bitcoin Expo 2019. Put together by the student-organized MIT Bitcoin Club, the conference welcomed more than just Bitcoin voices from every corner of the industry.
2019-3-15 01:08 | |
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Following his arrest by authorities at LAX airport, Konstantin Ignatov, leader of the OneCoin ponzi scam, now faces charges. His sister, Ruja, who founded OneCoin, also faces multiple charges of fraud and money laundering — although currently remains at large.
2019-3-9 20:00 | |
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In the cryptocurrency world, there has never been a shortage of dodgy projects, Ponzi Schemes, and outright scams. Most of those projects are all in the past, yet new ones tend to pop up every now and then.
2019-3-1 12:12 | |
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Multiple news outlets are now reporting a pending extradition for CoinFlux CEO Vlad Nistor. According to the publications, Nistor has already been retained for the US government after his arrest in Cluj-Napoca on December 11th.
2018-12-13 05:38 | |
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The Let’s Talk Bitcoin Network hosts several podcasts for regular discussion topics in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, including the popular weekly show What Bitcoin Did.
2018-11-20 22:58 | |
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Binance has frozen multiple accounts associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Wex, citing money laundering concerns. The CEO of Binance went on Twitter recently to announce the freezing of multiple accounts owned by Wex, claiming that Binance will cooperate with law enforcement in any way possible should a criminal investigation result from alleged money laundering.
2018-11-1 01:47 | |
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Scammers conned $50,000 out of regular Australians using a blatantly obvious fake tax debt fraud. Multiple victims have been lured into paying off non-existent debt through Bitcoin ATMs. A Time-Tested Scam Scammers have managed to con upwards of $50,000 from Australian citizens, luring them in to pay off a non-existent debt in a classic fraud.
2018-10-6 08:00 | |
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In April 2018, former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sent off inquiries to more than a dozen cryptocurrencyexchanges to learn more about their internal operations.
2018-9-19 02:06 | |
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OKEx Founder Released From Police Questioning. Denies Fraud Charges Star Xu, the founder of OKEx, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, affirmed that the allegations that he was guilty of fraud were fake after the Chinese law enforcement summoned him to a police station for 24 hours this week. Multiple local media […]
2018-9-13 00:11 | |
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), a non-profit watchdog for public brokerage firms in the U. S. , has had its first run-in with the cryptocurrency industry.
2018-9-12 21:15 | |
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The CEO of Chinese cryptocurrency exchanges OKcoin and OKEx is in police custody over alleged fraud, local media report September 11. Xu’s Business Gets All-Clear As multiple sources on social media claim in addition to Sina News, Star Xu is currently assisting officers in Shanghai investigate fraudulent activity on the part of WFEE coin, of which he is a shareholder.
2018-9-11 16:00 | |
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A new way to trade bitcoin and digital currencies is now in the books. SparkSwap is the first crypto exchange to be built on the Lightning Network. It allows users to trade both bitcoin and altcoins in seconds without depositing assets with a third party.
2018-8-10 18:32 | |
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Volatility aside, fraud remains one of the most significant risks inherent in the nascent cryptocurrency market. From virtual coin trading to initial coin offerings (ICOs), there have been multiple reported cases of outright scams and fraudulent activities.
2018-8-5 20:45 | |
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Volatility aside, fraud remains one of the most significant risks inherent in the nascent cryptocurrency market. From virtual coin trading to initial coin offerings (ICOs), there have been multiple reported cases of outright scams and fraudulent activities.
2018-8-3 18:41 | |
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Jon Montroll, the founder of two US based cryptocurrency trading platforms has pled guilty to allegations of security fraud that has seen Montroll deceive both investors and the authorities on multiple counts, allowing him to manipulate investigations into hacks that had taken place within his platforms.
2018-7-26 16:00 | |
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FinanceFeeds’ revealed, on July 20, that the founder of the shutdown bitcoin stock exchange, BitFunder, Jon Montroll is trying to work on a “plea agreement” with the U. S Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), for both his and BitFunder’s multiple fraud and scam activities.
2018-7-20 21:08 | |
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As a rapidly growing business sector, e-commerce continues to open up new avenues for exploring, comparing and purchasing products worldwide. Spl. yt, a smart contract protocol, aims improve the e-commerce system for buyers and sellers by automating functions currently performed by “middlemen” marketplaces like Amazon, eBay and Alibaba.
2018-7-16 19:45 | |
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Gennaro D'Urso is the founder of Pharma Collective and Israel Mersky is the Director at Pharma Collective. Gennaro has a background in science and entrepreneurship, while Israel comes from the advertising industry and has experience in the pharmaceutical psychedelic space.
Jasper De Gooyer is the co-founder and CTO at SEDA, a multichain, permissionless protocol connecting real-world data to any network on-chain.
Bitget, top global cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is responding to trader demand and is to list SKALE (SKL). The SKALE Network is designed to enhance the scalability and efficiency of Ethereum-compatible applications.
VALR, Africa's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched perpetual futures trading, featuring the world's first Bitcoin and USDT perpetual futures paired against the South African Rand.
Controversial crypto exchange Binance has appointed Richard Teng as its new CEO. The appointment follows the resignation of former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao who pleaded guilty to charges levied against him by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao will reportedly step down as CEO of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange as part of a $4.3 billion settlement with the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
Since its 2009 inception, Bitcoin has heralded a shift from traditional to decentralized finance (DeFi), signaling the future of financial markets. Today, the crypto landscape extends beyond Bitcoin, with multiple projects contributing to a dynamic ecosystem of financial innovation.