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Thousands of cryptocurrency over-the-counter merchants and their clients may have been affected as police in China freeze bank accounts over tainted crypto and fiat assets. origin »
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Over the weekend, hackers targeted the social media accounts of Visa and Hollywood actor Dean Norris to promote fraudulent crypto tokens. The incidents have raised concerns about the increasing use of compromised high-profile accounts to execute crypto scams.
2025-1-27 15:00 | |
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Bad actors keep ramping up crypto scams, with impersonation accounts surging to over 300 a day, according to blockchain analysts. Crypto scams on X are once again rising fast, with major accounts hijacked to promote fake tokens. Victims have already…
2024-12-10 14:31 | |
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Authorities requested information on some 200 other crypto accounts, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter.
2023-10-17 11:11 | |
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Separately managed accounts have seen explosive growth in TradFi, and there are benefits in crypto, too.
2023-9-6 18:45 | |
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Three crypto companies in Portugal have been left stunned at the decision of key banks to close their accounts. The post Crypto Winter Gets Chilly for Portuguese Exchanges as Local Banks Close Accounts appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-8-5 23:30 | |
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Israel’s Defense Ministry has seized 30 crypto accounts belonging to organizations affiliated with the al-Mutahadun exchange company. The crypto wallets associated with 12 exchange accounts have been linked to the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas.
2022-3-1 08:34 | |
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Crypto. com, the popular cryptocurrency exchange platform, halted all deposits and withdrawals on Monday, January 11, citing “unauthorized activity” on some accounts. It has, however, reinstated some accounts and withdrawal services, noting that the accounts are now safe.
2022-1-18 11:54 | |
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The US government is looking to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts that were used by North Korean hackers who reportedly stole millions of dollars of digital assets from two crypto exchanges. A civil forfeiture complaint is filed by the US Department of Justice.
2020-8-28 19:00 | |
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The crypto space in South Korea is among the most vibrant amongst today’s FinTech aggressive nations. This market accounts for nearly a fifth of the total crypto transactions globally despite the tough stance by authorities on cryptocurrency activities.
2019-12-4 18:17 | |
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Singapore based crypto exchange Huobi is set to freeze accounts controlled by US residents in an effort to crack down on those individuals violating the User Agreement, according to a post on their website.
2019-11-2 12:00 | |
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When BlockFi began offering interest-bearing accounts earlier this month, it seemed to have struck gold. Giving people a place to securely store their bitcoin or ether is paying off for the company and crypto holders.
2019-3-22 00:42 | |
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In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of Chile has ruled that state-owned Bancoestado was justified in closing the accounts of cryptocurrency exchange Orionx without explanation. The judges ruled that the bank acted in compliance with laws on money laundering and terrorist financing, a threat allegedly posed by censorship-resistant, decentralized cryptocurrencies.
2018-12-6 14:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex is now offering institutional accounts and we’ve covered the announcement in The Daily. Also, Okex is launching a new derivative product, while crypto derivatives exchange Erisx has raised $27.
2018-12-6 12:45 | |
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CryptoNinjas Crypto exchange Poloniex, acquired by Circle Internet Financial, Inc. at the beginning of this year, has announced that institutional accounts are now available. To commemorate the occasion, Poloniex customers will enjoy no fees on BTC/USDC trades during.
2018-12-5 09:47 | |
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On December 4, The Circle team announced that institutional accounts became available on Poloniex. “Institutions large and small can enjoy the benefits of our large curated selection of crypto asset trading pairs, dedicated support and robust API services”, – reads the announcement.
2018-12-5 09:33 | |
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One of the most popular virtual currency exchanges, Poloniex, announced that institutional accounts are now available on their platform. The main intention is to offer services to institutions of different sizes.
2018-12-5 03:02 | |
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Poloniex announced it was opening institutional trading accounts as of Tuesday.
2018-12-4 21:50 | |
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We are excited to announce that institutional accounts are now available on Poloniex! Institutions large and small can enjoy the benefits of our large curated selection of crypto asset trading pairs, dedicated support and robust API services.
2018-12-4 20:37 | |
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A regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchange is shutting down to relaunch as part of the Huobi family. The new exchange will support six cryptocurrencies and 11 trading pairs. Existing Bittrade customers need to open new accounts, complete KYC verification, and transfer their assets to the new platform.
2018-12-2 12:30 | |
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A regulated Japanese cryptocurrency exchange is shutting down to relaunch as part of the Huobi family. The new exchange will support six cryptocurrencies and 11 trading pairs. Existing Bittrade customers need to open new accounts, complete KYC verification, and transfer their assets to the new platform.
2018-12-2 12:30 | |
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The Union Bank of Nigeria sent out an email to its customers, warning them cryptocurrency activity will be monitored and that the bank might close accounts linked to such transactions.
2018-11-30 20:36 | |
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The FBI has arrested the CEO of Dallas-based AriseBank on November 28, 2018, reports Dallas News. The arrest was made after allegations of company CEO, Jared Rice Sr. duping hundreds of investors out of more than $4 million.
2018-11-30 14:00 | |
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Users Of Blockchain. com Report Issues With The Platform It seems that Blockchain. com is experiencing some issues with the Bitcoin wallet that it has created. According to some reports, there are three common issues with the wallet.
2018-11-30 23:29 | |
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Hackers have been becoming increasingly creative in their ways of duping unsuspecting investors, and one of their latest endeavors has been the hacking of Twitter. Verified Twitter accounts all over the website were the subject of Bitcoin sweepstakes posts, leading many newcomers to lose funds.
2018-11-29 04:47 | |
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CryptoNinjas LXDX, a digital asset exchange focusing on derivatives based on underlying cryptocurrency assets, announced that it has opened platform access ahead of launch next month. Traders are able to create accounts and begin regulatory Know.
2018-11-27 22:07 | |
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A twenty-one-year-old New Yorker has stolen cryptocurrency worth a million dollars from a Silicon Valley executive by exploiting a tactic known as “SIM swapping” to take over phone number accounts by duping wireless carriers.
2018-11-22 14:00 | |
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That special time of year is coming up — the time when individuals trade in their unwanted or unusable gift cards for bitcoin. And with the price of bitcoin dropping, peer-to-peer (P2P) bitcoin marketplace Paxful is making it possible to use these gift cards to “buy the dip.
2018-11-22 19:12 | |
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When the towers in New York fell, I became obsessed with economics. I wanted to follow the money to understand what happened on that dreadful day. During that time of inquiry, I found myself very interested in Austrian economic theory.
2018-11-21 19:26 | |
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CryptoNinjas Zeus Protocol, a 2nd layer network for Ethereum and CINDX, an investment platform that allows individuals to combine several crypto exchange accounts into one trading terminal have announced a strategic partnership.
2018-11-20 18:36 | |
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US-based crypto startup BitVault, Inc. , doing business as Gem, has announced the launch of its consumer crypto portfolio app that lets users track all their crypto accounts in one single app. The app, initially announced in April, syncs with all major platforms and provides key metrics of how users’ investments are doing.
2018-11-18 17:12 | |
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Tips In XRP Now Possible For Non Crypto People Through TipBot Paper Accounts TipBot, a crypto micro payment system recently launched a paper based account for its users to tip their favorite restaurant, bar or any establishment with Ripple’s XRP.
2018-11-17 23:35 | |
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Twitter has been a hotbed for fraudulent activity in the last few weeks. Scammers have been getting into verified accounts, posting as some kind of giveaway for Bitcoin. Those hackers seem to be careful to not get caught, leaving different Bitcoin awards available with each one. Google and Target were some of the most recent […]
2018-11-15 23:20 | |
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In what is becoming an emerging trend, Twitter accounts of popular brands are being hacked in an attempt to scam unsuspecting users out of their cryptocurrencies. Target and Google are two high profile targets that have seen their accounts taken over by hackers who, in turn, have used them to scam followers by advertising fraudulent crypto giveaways.
2018-11-15 23:40 | |
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The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
2018-11-15 22:14 | |
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Bitcoin giveaway scammers claim another victim After we saw several verified Twitter accounts fall victim to the infamous cryptocurrency giveaway scammers a couple of weeks ago, another account suffered the same faith today.
2018-11-14 13:40 | |
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An anonymous thief who goes by the name ‘John Doe’ has crypto exchange giant Bitmain worked up. Earlier this year, a hacker got brief command of Bitmain’s account on another crypto exchange Binance.
2018-11-14 05:39 | |
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Target Twitter Account Hacked To Promote Bitcoin (BTC) Scam On Tuesday morning, reports arose that crypto-centric Twitter hackers scored their biggest win yet — hijacking Target’s official account, which sports a casual 1.
2018-11-14 04:25 | |
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International cybersecurity solutions provider Group-IB has come up with a scoring model to grade crypto exchanges based on their level of security. The scoring model was created by Group-IB in conjunction with Swiss-based Cryptolns (which is operated by Swiss insurance broker APIS AS), and the grading is intrinsic to CryptoIns’ new cryptocurrency exchange insurance, which will allow exchange users to cover up to 15 BTC worth of digital assets held in their exchange accounts.
2018-11-13 00:43 | |
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In the latter half of 2018, few developments have occupied crypto investors’ headspaces like the industry’s indefatigable pursuit of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF).
2018-11-9 20:03 | |
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“Elon Musk” Strikes Again, Bitcoin Scam Ensues After Twitter reportedly restricted (and banned) many of the accounts sharing the likeness of Tesla & SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, one of the social media platform’s foremost stars, reports have arisen that claim that the world-renowned entrepreneur has been impersonated yet again, this time in a context pertaining […] The post “Elon Musk” Crypto Scam May Have Snagged Dozens Of Bitcoin (BTC) appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-11-7 07:48 | |
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Scammers plaguing a popular social media platform have successfully stolen over $150,000 in cryptocurrency. They used the verified accounts of two prominent British businesses by posing as Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk.
2018-11-7 02:00 | |
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For anyone familiar with cryptocurrency, or for regular Twitter users, it’s widely known that crypto scammers have begun to create fake celebrity Twitter accounts to dupe careless victims into giving away their crypto holdings.
2018-11-7 00:35 | |
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Have you ever seen Elon Musk trying to give you crypto? This very popular scam is unfortunately happening once more. Many verified accounts were hacked to impersonate the founder of Tesla and SpaceX.
2018-11-6 03:48 | |
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A number of verified Twitter accounts were hacked to look like Elon Musk's as part of an effort to defraud owners of bitcoin.
2018-11-6 22:37 | |
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.
2018-11-5 22:04 | |
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The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.
2018-11-7 22:04 | |
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Ethershift. co is an ERC20 crypto currency exchange that provides the near instant conversion of 70+ crypto assets. Ethershift has no accounts and let’s customers trade without collecting any personal information.
2018-11-5 21:30 | |
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A band of 11 individuals is in custody of recent hacks into emails, cryptocurrency wallets and user accounts of Bitcoin holders. The Turkish nationals are accused of masterminding the digital currency heist after law enforcement received complaints from victims who lost their cryptocurrencies to the gang.
2018-11-5 23:53 | |
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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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Over-the-counter desk balances are widely considered a proxy for institutional activity.
The $5 million round, led by Octopus Ventures, adds to a $2 million seed round raised in September of last year.
Circle will focus on its stablecoin business next year, following the sale of its OTC desk to Kraken and the departure of its chief financial and legal officers.