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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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%.
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 ...
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 ...