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The Fallout From Onecoin’s Ponzi Scheme Continues to Impact Investors

25.1.2020
In late 2019, the remnants of multi-level Ponzi scheme Onecoin crumbled. However, Onecoin’s founder, dubbed the ‘crypto queen,’ Ruja Ignatova, remains on the run and law enforcement haven’t caught up with her yet. Moreover, police are investigating two churches in...

Cloud Token and the Rise of MLM Crypto Projects

29.12.2019
Chinese law enforcement recently busted 72 individuals connected to the Cloud Token (CTO) scam. The Ponzi was similar to the Plustoken fraud and CTO scammers made off with $500 million. According to regional press, the CTO scam artists are likely connected to the Plustoken swindlers. Moreover...

Chinese Police Seize Thousands of Miners, Arrest Dozens of Scammers

25.12.2019
In the last couple of days, Chinese media have reported on police forces in one province of the vast Asian country seizing close to 7,000 mining rigs using stolen electricity and in another province arresting 72 multi-level marketing scheme operators for alleged fraud. Also Read: Chinese Regulators...

$100M of Ethereum Tied to Plustoken Scam Sparks Wild Theories

21.12.2019
During the last two weeks as cryptocurrency prices slid below long term foundational support, speculators assumed Plustoken scammers may be behind the dump. Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis published a report which claimed Plustoken coin sales might be dragging BTC prices down. Moreover,...

Plustoken Cash-Outs Could Be Behind BTC Price Drop, Says Report

17.12.2019
On Monday, the blockchain surveillance company Chainalysis published an excerpt from the firm’s upcoming crime report that will publish in January. According to the Chainalysis research, the Ponzi scheme called Plustoken not only defrauded investors out of $3 billion but the scam “may...

Russia’s Hydra Darknet Marketplace Plans $146M Token Sale

14.12.2019
According to regional reports, the Russian darknet market Hydra is planning an initial coin offering (ICO) in order to expand the marketplace internationally. The sale is set to start on December 16 and Hydra administrators hope to raise $146 million from the token sale. Also read: Regulatory...

Quadrigacx Founder Dead or Alive? Request for Exhumation and Autopsy Filed

14.12.2019
It has been a year since the founder of now-defunct crypto exchange Quadrigacx supposedly died in India. However, some 76,000 victims are still out of millions of dollars. A court-appointed lawyer representing them has now requested an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy in Canada of the dead body...

Hackers Failed to Execute $400K Worth Bitcoin Scam in Texas

14.12.2019
A Texas-based couple was subjected to an unfavorable incident of extortion from a malicious hacker who demanded a whopping amount of $400k in Bitcoin holdings after sabotaging their Amazon Ring doorbell. Tania Amador, the 28-year-old woman who became the target of the hacker, used her intelligence...

Exit Scam Fears as Major Darknet Site ICO Promises 700% Growth in 6 Months

13.12.2019
Russia’s biggest darknet community, Hydra, has released a white paper as it prepares to issue an initial coin offering (ICO) that it says will see token growth skyrocket by 700% by June next year. Hydra’s white paper takes the form of an investment memorandum (link here, although the memo can only...

Is HEX a Scam or Just Something that Looks Really, Really Like a Scam?

12.12.2019
Richard Heart. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Richard Heart "Oh, it looks like a scam, I know that," says Richard Heart, the founder of the controversial new cryptocurrency HEX. Speaking to Tone Vays' Bitcoin Law Review podcast, he admits that, "if you don't look into it, it looks like every...

Fraudulent Group Involved in $722 Scam Got Arrested by the US Authorities

11.12.2019
On Tuesday, the Justice Department made an announcement regarding the arrest of three men involved in an alleged fraud that led to the embezzlement of a whopping amount of $722 million from the investors via fake bitcoin mining earnings. According to the latest reports, the prosecutors have...

Accused Onecoin Co-Conspirators Fight Criminal Charges in the US

10.12.2019
The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time...

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