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Mirror Trading International (MTI), declared a pyramid scheme by the South African High Court, was a cryptocurrency trading platform promising automated trading services with significant returns. [1] MTI was masterminded by Johann Steynberg, who claimed to use an artificial intelligence bot for its trading activities. [2]
Fraudsters are using ads featuring a fake Jeremy Clarkson endorsement as part of a Bitcoin scam. Watchdogs are warning social media users about the ads, which urge people to invest in cryptocurrency.
BBC Eye Investigations uncovered 152 brands used by the Milton group, including Solo Capitals, an ostensible cryptocurrency trading firm in Georgia, CoinEvo and EverFX. [ 1 ] EverFX were a leading sponsor of the Spanish football club Sevilla FC , and defrauded at least 170,000 people, many in Spain, until EverFX was banned by the UK's Financial ...
A major bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, was compromised by the 2016 Bitfinex hack, when nearly 120,000 bitcoins (around US$71 million) were stolen in 2016. [61] Bitfinex was forced to suspend its trading. The theft was the second-largest bitcoin heist ever, dwarfed only by the Mt. Gox theft in 2014.
Jon Montroll, the man behind BitFunder and WeExchange, was charged with fraud last February. He pleaded guilty last July, and will be sentenced in April. Montroll reportedly hid the theft of over ...
The 67-year-old Cussewago Township woman contacted state police Monday at 6:13 p.m. claiming she had been told by an unidentified person to purchase more than $22,000 worth of Bitcoin.
A pig butchering scam (in Chinese sha zhu pan [2] or shazhupan, [3] (Chinese: ĉçŞç), translated as killing pig game) [1] is a type of long-term scam and investment fraud in which the victim is gradually lured into making increasing contributions, usually in the form of cryptocurrency, to a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme.
A fraudulent bitcoin advertising scheme that attracted thousand of victims with unauthorized celebrity images has been traced back to Russia, according to The Guardian.