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French man who bought luxury car with BTC convicted in Morocco
The Moroccan trial court handed down an 18-month prison sentence on 21-year-old French citizen Thomas Clausi and a steep fine...
UK government bans cold calls for digital asset sales
On May 3, the U.K. government announced a blanket ban on cold calls selling financial products, including digital assets, which...
Phishing scam via Google search ads stole over $4M from users
The bad actors allegedly pay for Google ads to rank first on search results for several keywords that urge users...
Mirror Trading boss fined over $3B in US over unlawful crypto Ponzi scheme
South African national Steynberg was charged with the offense of operating a multi-level marketing scheme, which stole over 29,421 BTC...
Miami $4M ‘crypto’ refund scam leader pleads guilty to wire fraud
Esteban Cabrera Da Corte, the man behind the Miami-based syndicate operating a refund scheme, entered a guilty plea that would...
DOJ charges 5 over digital currency price manipulation using bots
If found guilty, Kane, Wolvaardt, and Hampton will face five years in prison for conspiracy to commit securities price manipulation...