Tag: scam
Forex Trading Scam: Two Arrested Over Forex Trading Scam | Mumbai News
Mumbai: The unit 8 of the city crime branch has arrested two persons who were allegedly running a fake call centre in Vile Parle and cheating people b [...]
Third person pleads guilty in relation to Courtenay House Forex scam
David Sipina of Croydon NSW has pleaded guilty to two criminal charges relating to his role at the Courtenay House group of companies.
Mr [...]
U.S. Attorney’s Office Files Civil Forfeiture Action to Return $2.3M in Crypto Tied to 37 Scam Victims
The cryptocurrencies – which includes nearly 300,000 (USDC), 1.5 million (USDT), 102,000 (TRX), 3,000 (SOL), and 14,000 (ADA) – were seized from two B [...]
Ponzi scheme and forex trading scam: ED initiates attachment of assets worth Rs 37.5 cr of mastermind Vinod Khute | Mumbai News
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has initiated provisionally attaching overseas assets worth Rs 37.5 crore of Dubai-based businessman Vinod Khute, own [...]
Crypto Investment Scam Losses in U.S. Grew 53% to $3.94B in 2023: FBI
Investment fraud at large grew by 38% from $3.31 billion to $4.57 billion, according to the bureau's Internet Crime Report 2023, highlighting the prom [...]
Blast Ecosystem Sees First Apparent Scam as ‘RiskOnBlast’ Rug Pulls $1.3M Ether
But all of its social media accounts were scraped on Sunday. The team itself was anonymous. Onchain researcher @somaxbt said the apparent stolen funds [...]
Token Riding on Bitcoin Layer 2 Hype Faces Insider Trading Controversy
SatoshiVM has seemingly included most of the trendy buzzwords in defining its protocol. It claims to be a Bitcoin layer 2 protocol powered by zero-kno [...]
Australian Treasury to Question Regulator Over HyperVerse Crypto Scheme: Report
Australia's Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services Stephen Jones has said he would be asking the Australian Securities and Investment [...]
Alleged Crypto Investment Scam Worth $80M Sees Four People Charged With Money Laundering in U.S.
The four allegedly obtained the money through so-called pig-butchering and other fraudulent schemes.
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Hong Kong authorities say 145 victims and $18.9M lost in Hounax scam
Hong Kong authorities reported on Nov. 27 that 145 users were affected in a scam by the unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange Hounax, resulting in a loss [...]
Asked to get a banana, a BAYC owner narrowly avoids a fake Forbes scam
A Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) owner says he has managed to avoid a potentially “dreadful day” after being asked to retrieve a banana for a photo from [...]
Yearn.Finance token tumbles 43%, community speculates on exit scam
Yearn.Finance's governance token (YFI) plummeted over 43% in just five hours on Nov. 18 after rallying almost 170% early in the month, stirring fears [...]
Elon Musk AI project inspired memecoin ‘Grok’ falls 74% on creator scam claim
The price of a memecoin drawing its namesake from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence project “Grok” plummeted over 70% after blockchain sleuth ZachXB [...]
Chinese hackers use fake Skype app to target crypto users in new phishing scam
A new phishing scam has emerged in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto usersAs per a report by crypto security analytic firm SlowM [...]
Mandi police unearth ₹210-cr Forex scam; two arrested
After the multi-crore cryptocurrency scam rocked the state, the Mandi police have uncovered a Forex trading scam, estimated to be more than ₹210 cro [...]