Tag: Frauds

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Monday that more than $3.36 billion worth of Bitcoin affiliated with the DarkNet marketplace Silk Road was seized by law enforcement last November. This seems to be the DOJ’s second-largest Bitcoin confiscation to date. The announcement from the US Attorney’s Office comes after James Zhong, the man who…

Binance, Circle, and some other prominent crypto firms have launched a crypto scam reporting platform. The tool “empowers anyone in the crypto economy to warn others about scams, hacks or other fraudulent activity as they encounter it.” Crypto firms have joined forces and launched a new, multi-chain scam reporting platform. TRM Labs, Binance.us, Circle, Solana…

Dubai Police has teamed up with cryptocurrency trading platform BitOasis to educate investors and traders about crypto fraud. The collaboration aimed to educate investors and traders more about the sector. As Arab News reported, Ola Doudin, CEO of Crypto exchange BitOasis said: “We have been working with key policymakers to help them build regulation that…

Don’t get the rug pulled out from under you, warns Oscar Gonzalez on CNET. Crypto pump-and-dump schemes are designed to take advantage of people while making some big money for scammers. They generally involve influencers who receive financial incentives for telling people to buy a certain digital coin in order to raise its value. Once…

SEC has brought three new charges in the $30 million ICO fraud case against Boaz Manor and Edith Pardo, 18 months after the first charges. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought charges against three additional defendants in its ongoing case against ex-con Boaz Manor and his business associate Edith Pardo for raising $30…