Conman Pulls off a €400,000 P2P Bitcoin Transaction in Italy
In an offline bitcoin trade gone wrong, two men who engaged in a peer-to-peer transaction to sell bitcoin have been duped by the buyer, a conman who swapped a whole lot of wastepaper purporting to be cash, for the cryptocurrency. According to multiple reports, two men from Belarus were the unfortunate victims of a scam which saw fake fiat cash swapped for bitcoin. The two Belarussian citizens agreed to swap 500 bitcoins for about €400,000 (approx. $430,000) with a single buyer, at a pub near the center of Como, a lakeside city in Italy. Having arrived in Como specifically for the trade,....
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Italy has made first step towards Bitcoin by implementing the same regulations as they do to cash. Italians just love cash. There are about 7 million people in Italy, who do not have the bank account and by that I mean that they had never had one. At the same time however, the number of population that downloaded bitcoin wallet places Italy 12th among other countries and this is only what can be traced. Although, on the general technological front Italy is far from the techy countries in EU. That probably is due to distrust to digital means of managing money and as we know, that kind of....
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Binance Now Licensed in Italy
Binance announced Friday that Binance Italy “has received regulatory approval” through registration as a Cryptocurrency Service Provider with the Organismo Agenti e Mediatori (OAM), as required by the Italian legislation on crypto....
Hong Kong police have arrested a man accused of stealing $191,085 from a cryptocurrency trader in what turned out to be a bogus transaction. No funds were recovered at the time of the suspect’s arrest and investigations are ongoing to determine if the man had accomplices.
No Funds Recovered
Hong Kong police recently arrested a 24-year-old conman accused of vanishing with a crypto trader’s $191,085 (HK$1.5 million). The con artist now faces a possible ten-year jail term if convicted, a report has said.
According to a South China Morning Post report that....
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