Business Email Compromise Fraud Schemes Continue To Gain Traction
This is also another example of how banks facilitate crime, rather than Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies. Online fraud is becoming the most popular development of the 21st century so far. A Nigerian individual is facing US charges for this involvement in multiple scams. By impersonating vendors and company executives, the managed to scam hundreds of victims. All victims made large wire transfers to fraudulent accounts, resulting in a total loss of close to US$3.1bn. David Chukwuneke Adindu pleaded not guilty to these charges. However, prosecutors are still planning to charge him with wire fraud....
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After a joint investigation was conducted by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security, seven people were arrested. Fraud is an international business, albeit some countries seem more prone to criminal activity than others. Six Nigerians have been arrested and sentenced for their role in a US$40m fraud scheme. Although Bitcoin was not involved – from what we can tell – they used any other means at their disposal to defraud users all over the world. Among the scams run by this group are check fraud secret shopper schemes, and personal assistant work-from-home fraud....
A trader on Localbitcoins and Paxful has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a couple of bitcoin scams. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges that the trader knowingly sold bitcoin to victims of fraudulent schemes. Bitcoin Trader Facing Jail Time The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that a Boston man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in two bitcoin fraud schemes. Austin Nedved “pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy,” the DOJ detailed, adding that the 29-year-old is currently “in custody....
Certain organization such as MMM Global have been accepting bitcoin payments in what appears to be a rehashing of the pyramid scheme of the same name that was started back in the Soviet Union. Now, CEO Bobby Lee and the BTCC team issued a warning to its customers and potential bitcoin investors that BTCC is in no way affiliated with such schemes, and that investors must consider validating the entity promoting any bitcoin related investments to ensure its legitimacy. Over the past few months, customers of prominent bitcoin exchanges and investment firms like BTCC and San Francisco-based....
The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), US Government agency, has issued a warning about cryptocurrency's associations with Fraud and Ponzi schemes. They issued a statement warning that: They are more likely to be used by fraudsters to perpetrate fraudulent investment schemes. Dara Kerr, writing in CNET, reports that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an advisory on Wednesday that warned potential investors to be wary of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The advisory states that: "Both fraudsters and promoters of high-risk investment schemes may target Bitcoin....
El Salvador has become a hotbed for bitcoin adoption in recent months. As a result, it may come as a surprise that Bitcoin has failed to gain traction in the country, according to a recent survey. Despite this, several businesses are optimistic that BTC will gain traction in the long run. El Salvador became the […]