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Users of the WEX exchange have begun filing police reports after more than three months of being unable to withdraw major cryptocurrencies or fiat. origin »
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South Korean police raided the offices of Coinbit, one of the country’s major crypto exchanges. Insiders leaked that the exchange manipulated 99% of its trade volume and police also accused the management of fraud.
2020-8-27 09:30 | |
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Users of the WEX exchange have begun filing police reports after more than three months of being unable to withdraw major cryptocurrencies or fiat.
2018-10-23 04:07 | |
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A security officer belonging to the French Intelligence Agency – General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI) was arrested last week for selling state secrets on the Dark Web in exchange for bitcoin, reported Le Parisien on October 1, 2018.
2018-10-4 13:00 | |
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A new report from the Wall Street Journal found that $88. 6 million in illicit funds have been funneled through 46 documented cryptocurrency exchanges. $9 million of these funds is reported to have gone through Switzerland-based digital currency exchange ShapeShift.
2018-9-30 17:59 | |
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When Tokyo-based Mt. Gox got hacked to the tune of 650,000 bitcoin in 2014, Japan learned early on the tough lessons of cryptocurrency theft. Yet, to this day, despite the country’s ongoing efforts to educate investors and ramp up oversight of crypto exchanges, it still feels the sting of hackers.
2018-9-21 23:45 | |
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Hackers have swiped over $540 million (60 billion Yen) worth of cryptocurrency from Japanese netizens over the first six months of 2018. On September 20, Japan’s National Police Agency revealed the number of cryptocurrency-related reported incidents rose to 158 – triple the amount of incidents over the same period last year, local outlet The Asahi Shimbun reports.
2018-9-20 11:47 | |
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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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Star Xu, the founder of the world’s second largest crypto exchange OKEx and exchange service provider OKCoin, has been reportedly released from custody after being arrested by the Shanghai police on the evening of Sept.
2018-9-12 17:29 | |
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Today, September 12, 2018, OKCoin announced that the company will be offering token-to-token only trading in twenty states across the U. S. This announcement of its expansion in U.
2018-9-12 17:01 | |
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The founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx has been taken into custody by Shanghai police officials after allegedly being involved in a fraudulent scheme regarding the WFEE Coin, Sina Finance reported on September 11, 2018.
2018-9-12 17:00 | |
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The founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKEx was detained for questioning on September 10, 2018, by Shanghai police to investigate a case of suspected digital currency fraud related to WFee coin.
2018-9-12 23:42 | |
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The CEO of the world's second largest crypto exchange has been taken to the Shanghai Police department over alleged investment fraud.
2018-9-12 22:49 | |
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Shanghai Police Questioning Star Xu, Founder of World’s Second Largest Crypto Exchange Shanghai police have brought in Star Xu, who has been allegedly involved in a fraudulent scheme concerning WFEE coin, of which he is currently a shareholder.
2018-9-11 17:47 | |
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The founder of cryptocurrency exchange OKex has been taken into custody by Shanghai police officials. Star Xu is allegedly involved in a fraudulent scheme regarding WFEE Coin. As Xu is a shareholder in this potentially fraudulent company, he is put through a round of questioning to get to the bottom of these rumors.
2018-9-11 15:07 | |
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The country’s authorities have seized 22 Bitcoin exchange machines, located in nine Russian cities.
2018-9-4 14:56 | |
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Adding to the litany of cryptocurrency scams being brought to public attention recently, a man has just reported to Dutch authorities that he was given €180,000 in counterfeit cash in exchange for 26 Bitcoins ($154,693).
2018-9-1 18:33 | |
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Murkier details of the Bitconnect cryptocurrency scam have emerged as police have arrested the head of the defunct cryptocurrency exchange. [Note: This is a guest article submitted by Bhushan Akolkar] Bitconnect — A Pyramid Scheme of Scams Last Saturday, August 18, Indian authorities arrested Divyesh Darji, the Asian head of defunct cryptocurrency exchange, in a high-profile scam worth 880 billion Indian Rupees ($12.
2018-8-21 13:00 | |
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A new report from Bloomberg reveals that Bittrex along with 2 other major cryptocurrency exchanges have joined the Winklevoss twins’ Gemini exchange to form the Virtual Commodity Association.
2018-8-20 22:29 | |
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Nearly eight months after BitConnect pulled one of the most iconic exit scams in cryptocurrency history, the authorities across the globe are still catching up with the crooks behind the pyramid scheme.
2018-8-20 14:19 | |
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BitConnect India is now at the centre of an investigation as authorities believe that the whole concept was ‘probably’ a Ponzi scheme, a scam that saw round $3 billion in investments before the ‘exchange’ closed down in January 2018.
2018-8-20 14:00 | |
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Staff at three Thai banks and an investor in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) are among the people implicated in a mega bitcoin scandal, local media reported on August 16. According to the Thai police, several bank employees failed to report huge transfers to the country’s Anti-Money Laundering Office, a violation of the country’s […]
2018-8-18 16:00 | |
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After a police raid over allegations of fraud and insolvency, UpBit, South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchange demonstrated full financial competence after a final audit report. Dunamoo, UpBit’s parent company, cited a report proving the exchange has ample assets to match its balance sheets.
2018-8-7 00:30 | |
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On July 10, 2018, news broke that cryptocurrency wallet and decentralized exchange Bancor was hit with a hack. A wallet the Bancor team used to update the protocol’s smart contracts was infiltrated, and the $23.
2018-8-3 19:24 | |
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Nasdaq Inc’s SMARTS trade surveillance technology is now employed by five cryptocurrency exchanges, according to reports. Last week it held a closed-door meeting to help improve the profile of cryptocurrencies in global markets.
2018-7-30 08:00 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has rejected the Winklevosses’ latest attempt to list a bitcoin ETF. After having a proposal rejected last year, the Gemini exchange founders had hoped to secure their Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust on BATS Global Market’s BZX stock exchange with this latest attempt.
2018-7-27 02:19 | |
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“We have nothing to hide,” says Tory Reiss, VP of corporate development at TrustToken. Like the market’s most popular stablecoin, Tether, TrustToken's TrueUSD is fiat-collateralized.
2018-7-26 18:55 | |
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In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief we cover a number of stories related to crime from around the cryptosphere: an exchange operator pleads guilty to securities fraud, a scammer is fined over $1.
2018-7-25 14:58 | |
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UK Police Seize 295 Bitcoins From Latvian Criminal Seregis Teresko A recent arrest in England was made by a local police force. It was the first in the country to search and seize a cryptocurrency exchange on the grounds of a criminal investigation.
2018-7-20 21:01 | |
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A British county police force has become the first in the country to seize and exchange bitcoins discovered during a criminal investigation. According to a report from the Financial Times yesterday, the Surrey police force obtained 295 bitcoins last October after arresting a Latvian man called Seregjs Teresko, who has since been convicted for money laundering and
2018-7-20 16:50 | |
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On July 11, 2018, the Chinese police apprehended over 540 people for organizing an online soccer gambling game which involved the exchange of bitcoins. The illegal betting places were conducted in south China’s Guangdong Province.
2018-7-15 14:30 | |
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Hackers have reportedly made away with cryptocurrencies worth $30 million from Bithumb, South Korea's leading exchange, according to reports from a blog update. The exchange states that due to the hack, deposits and withdrawals will be temporarily suspended until further notice.
2018-6-20 20:25 | |
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Cambodian authorities have now announced that domestic investors are required to obtain a license in order to allow them to buy, sell or trade cryptocurrencies. Without a license, these activities would now be considered illegal.
2018-6-20 13:00 | |
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Ukrainian authorities have arrested four individuals suspected of running fake cryptocurrency exchanges, the nation’s federal police force announced Saturday. The National Police of Ukraine claimed in a press release that the suspects were arrested for operating as many as six fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange platforms.
2018-6-19 00:52 | |
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The cybercrime combating unit of the Ukrainian police has uncovered a network of fraudulent crypto trading websites. Four people are suspected of offering the fake online exchange services. They have maintained at least six platforms luring cryptocurrency traders with deceptive messages.
2018-6-18 18:20 | |
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Установлена связь между 10 000 BTC, которые 29 августа пришли в движение впервые с 2013 года, и обанкротившейся криптовалютной биржей Mt. Gox. Об этом сообщает Telegram-канал GFiS. По имеющейся информации, в каждой из цепочек транзакций, связанных с обоими выводами, фигурирует один и тот же кошелек, который принял 134 000 BTC с Mt.
Many scams are happening in the crypto industry, especially BTC. If an investor is not careful, he’ll fall prey to cybercriminals posing as legit projects or platforms. Sometimes, some exchanges might run into hitches and cause massive losses to investors.
Бывший руководитель закрывшейся криптовалютной биржи WEX (ранее BTC-e) Дмитрий Васильев был задержан 25 мая в аэропорту Хорватии по запросу властей Казахстана в связи с хищением у инвестора $20 000. Уроженец Республики Беларусь Дмитрий Васильев, бывший генеральный директор уже нефункционирующей биржи WEX, был задержан в аэропорту имени Франьо Туджмана в Загребе.
Coinspeaker Jack Dorsey’s Square Now Boasts of Nearly 150% in 2020 Stock GainsAmid gains of other fintech companies, Square stock has now added nearly 150% in its year-to-date record, rising with other fintechs.
Судебное разбирательство по делу сооснователя ныне закрытой криптовалютной биржи BTC-e Александра Винника, который был экстрадирован из Греции во Францию, состоится 14 сентября. Об этом сообщает РИА Новости со ссылкой на адвоката Фредерик Бело.
Вчера, 23 апреля, стало известно о гибели Тимофея Мусатова, адвоката сооснователя ныне закрытой криптовалютной биржи BTC-e Александра Винника. Об этом на своей странице в Facebook сообщил бывший партнер Мусатова Денис Гольдберг.
According to recent reports, the Bank of Russia has started using a regulatory sandbox to test the performance of stablecoins. Russia Warming to Stablecoins Russia’s stance towards cryptocurrencies has always been questionable, with the country’s intentions and goals never being fully known to anyone.