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Mustafa Gokiu Guilty of Running Illicit Crypto Business

Mustafa Gokiu – a man living in the town of Sunnyside, New York – was convicted in mid-October by a federal jury in Brooklyn...

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North Korea Crypto Mixer Tornado Cash Sanctioned By U.S.

North Korea and the United States are once again going at each other’s throats in the name of cryptocurrency activity. This time, it looks...

SEC Uncovers $300 Million Crypto Ponzi Scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged 11 individuals for their roles in an alleged crypto Ponzi scheme that may have taken...

Crypto Mixers Are Seeing Their Biggest Year in 2022

Mixers within the crypto community are experiencing huge booms in business despite the crypto space crashing like it never has before. Mixers Have Been Quite...

Arrests Made Relating to Three Crypto Fraud Cases

Several individuals have been arrested on charges relating to three separate instances of crypto fraud, one of which may have involved the largest non-fungible...

Open Sea NFT Executive Arrested for Financial Crimes

A former top executive with Open Sea – a leading distributor and designer of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) – has been arrested for crimes such...

CFTC Investigating $1.7 Billion Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against a company in South Africa and its head executive for allegedly running the...

Harmony Exchange Hacked, Loses More Than $100 Million

It’s happened again, folks. Another crypto exchange hack is in the books. This time, the victimized platform is a company called Harmony in California. Harmony...

Sudbury Woman Saved from Potential Crypto Scam

A woman happened to be in the right place at the right time, thus preventing her from becoming the latest victim of a crypto...

Miles McQueary Loses All His Money to Crypto Scam

A Lafayette man named Miles McQueary claims to have lost more than $9,000 in crypto to a digital scam site. He says the money...

Romance Scam Group Crypto Rom Has Gotten Much Bigger

Crypto Rom – an international digital currency scam ring – appears to have grown heavily over just the last year. The organization works by engaging in romance scams in which both iPhone and Android users are duped into thinking someone is interested in them after meeting on Tinder and other social media apps. From there,...

The post Romance Scam Group Crypto Rom Has Gotten Much Bigger appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins to Face Trial in U.S. for Crypto Ransomware Scheme

A Canadian government employee thought to be involved in a series of crypto-related ransomware attacks has been extradited to the United States to face judgement. Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins – who worked as an IT consultant for Public Works and Government Services in Canada – is believed to have carried out attacks that led to approximately $28...

The post Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins to Face Trial in U.S. for Crypto Ransomware Scheme appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

Sibling Pair Charged with Illegal Sales of Ormeus Coin

Early last week, authorities in the United States filed criminal and civil charges against a crypto executive and his sister for allegedly defrauding investors out of millions of dollars with the help of a little token called Ormeus Coin. Ormeus Coin – A Tool for Evil? John Barksdale and his sibling JonAtina are accused of...

The post Sibling Pair Charged with Illegal Sales of Ormeus Coin appeared first on Live Bitcoin News.

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