
Ponzi Scheme
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11 July, 2022
Celsius: New lawsuit from ex-employee accuses digital assets lender of fraud
The suit accuses Celsius as a Ponzi scheme and states that the lender refused to honor its contractual obligation to...
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8 July, 2022
The CoinGeek Pulse Episode 94: Voyager files bankruptcy, DoJ goes after ‘crypto’ frauds, Meta shuts down Novi
Meta is shutting down its Novi wallet. The social media company is asking its users to withdraw their funds—either by...
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6 July, 2022
CFTC charges South African man in $1.7B fraud scheme involving BTC
The CFTC brought charges against Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, CEO of Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI), over operating an international...
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1 July, 2022
Three Arrows Capital liquidated—was it a Ponzi scheme?
News broke early this week that a British Virgin Islands court had ordered Singapore-based digital currency hedge fund Three Arrows...
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1 June, 2022
The net is closing in on OneCoin scammer Ruja Ignatova
German authorities are investigating OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova’s husband Bjorn Strehl with reports of raids in Frankfurt and several other...
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27 May, 2022
CFTC charges 2 men operating $44M digital currency Ponzi scheme
The commission has charged two U.S. residents and their company in connection with an alleged digital currency Ponzi scheme that...