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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.
The bottom line, according to the FTC: "Don't believe anyone who says you need to use a Bitcoin ATM to protect your money or fix a problem. Real businesses and government agencies will never do ...
The trading bot was the most controversial piece of the Bitconnect.co system. [ citation needed ] The liquidity of the BCC cryptocurrency funded users' ability to exchange their earnings for Bitcoin. On November 7, 2017, the government of the United Kingdom issued Bitconnect a notice with two months to prove its legitimacy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The price of bitcoin topped $100,000 again early Friday as a pumped up cryptocurrency industry expects early action by Donald Trump when he's sworn in as president next week. Once a skeptic who said a few years ago that bitcoin “ seems like a scam ,” Trump has embraced digital currencies with a convert’s zeal.
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.
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]
Scammers can use your email to target you directly. And, unfortunately, plenty of email phishing scams today are more sophisticated than the older varieties that would directly ask for your ...
Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans.