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  2. Here’s how one victim was swindled out of $58,000 in a ...

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    September 15, 2024 at 10:29 AM. Last fall, 68-year-old Debbie Fox (pictured) was scammed out of $58,000 by a man posing as a wealthy scientist and businessman with dual passports (Debbie Fox ...

  3. 2020 Twitter account hijacking - Wikipedia

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    On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1][2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets ...

  4. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    A pig butchering scam, a.k.a. "Sha Zhu Pan" [114] or Shazhupan, [115] (Chinese: 杀猪盘), translated as Killing Pig Plate, [113] 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. [116]

  5. They lost $17K in cryptocurrency scam. SLO County Sheriff’s ...

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    September 12, 2024 at 8:43 PM. The San Luis Obispo Sheriff’s Department was able to recover part of a $17,000 cryptocurrency scam in Los Osos following a two-year investigation, the agency ...

  6. Cryptocurrency ‘pig butchering’ scam wrecks Kansas bank ...

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    The former CEO of a small Kansas bank was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for looting the bank of $47 million — which he sent to cryptocurrency wallets controlled by scammers who had ...

  7. List of Ponzi schemes - Wikipedia

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    МММ was a Russian company that perpetrated one of the world's largest Ponzi schemes of all time. By different estimates from 5 to 40 million people lost up to $10 billion. The company started attracting money from private investors, promising annual returns of up to 1,000%.

  8. Jimmy Zhong - Wikipedia

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    November 9, 2021. James "Jimmy" Zhong is an American man who was convicted in 2022 for stealing over 51,680 bitcoin (then worth about $620,000; [2] value as of 2023 approximately $3.4 billion [3]) from the online black market Silk Road between 2012 and 2014. [4] Zhong, who was closely monitoring the early development of bitcoin, [5] had found ...

  9. How to spot a crypto scam - AOL

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    According to the latest available data from the FTC, more than 46,000 people in the U.S. reported losing an accumulative $1 billion to crypto scams between January 2021 and June 2022. In 2021 ...