Bitcoin Extortionist Convicted in Romney Tax Return Fraud
A Tennessee man was recently found guilty on charges of extortion and wire fraud scheme in the attempted extortion of former Republican Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. The extortion scheme from 2012 saw the accused demand $1 million in bitcoin in exchange for purportedly stolen tax returns belonging to Romney. A faux-hacker who tried to snag a million-dollar ransom in bitcoin in exchange for 2012 Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tax records has been found guilty. In an announcement by the U.S. Department of Justice, Michael Mancil Brown, 37, was convicted of six counts of....
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A man from Tennessee has been indicted for attempting to extort $1 million in bitcoin by claiming that he had undeclared tax records of the former presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. Michael Mancil Brown (34) contacted the accounting firm used by Romney, PricewaterhouseCoopers, claiming that he had stolen computer documents containing up to twenty years' worth of tax returns that Romney had refused to put into the public domain for the sake of his election campaign. Mr. Romney's tax returns had been a source of controversy throughout the campaign. Candidates are not required to divulge....
Accepting Bitcoin for illicit transactions is never a good idea, and the alleged hacker of tax records belonging to Mitt Romney has found that out the hard way. Michael Mancil Brown was found guilty of fraud and extortion. Mitt Romney Tax Record Extortion Is Bad Karma. Back in 2012, the world was shocked to find out somebody had hacked then-US....
It appears that an extortionist is aiming to make life hard for certain bitcoin adopters. It has been reported that during the final stages of his battle with ALS, early bitcoin enthusiast Hal Finney spent a long and arduous 30 minutes shivering on his front lawn while a SWAT team cleared his home. It was the work of an alleged bitcoin extortionist, who after several failed attempts to extract $400,000 in bitcoin from Finney, finally used phone number spoofing technology to place a call to authorities from Finney's home number and make the following claim... That he had killed two people....
The Charity Commission in the United Kingdom has issued an alert toward all charities about an extortionist group demanding between £300 – £500 in bitcoin (approx. 1.03 to 1.72 BTC) or face cyberattacks, if the ransom isn’t paid up. In an alert issued toward UK-based charities today, the Charity Commission has revealed that a cyber-extortion group calling themselves the “RepKiller Team” are threatening businesses around the UK with their extortionist demands. The group is unlike other cyber-criminal extortionist groups who normally operate with distributed denial of service (DDoS)....
A Nigerian court has convicted and sentenced a man to one year in prison who is accused of duping an unsuspecting cryptocurrency investor. On its charge sheet, the prosecution said that the man had contravened Nigeria’s anti-fraud laws and hence should be punished accordingly. Fake Cryptocurrency Investment Scheme A court in Nigeria has convicted a man accused of using a bogus cryptocurrency platform to defraud $680 from an unsuspecting investor, a report has said. In its ruling, the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the man,....