The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency asset freeze against Virgil Capital LLC for allegedly defrauding investors under the guise of digital currency investing.
Austin Nedved operated his business from 2017 to 2019, aiding romance and lottery scammers to defraud unsuspecting victims, federal authorities said.
Karl Sebastian Greenwood faces charges of money laundering and securities fraud, in connection with his alleged role in the cryptocurrency scam.
A lawyer representing plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against an alleged billion-dollar digital currency scam is calling for forceful action against the perpetrators.
A prolific BTC scam operating in Australia has been traced to fraudsters in Russia, following an investigation by The Guardian Australia.
Belgian authorities have warned against the rise of cryptocurrency frauds on Tinder, which have seen victims lose out financially in their pursuit for love.
A Chinese court also fined the PlusToken operators up to $900,000 for their roles in the $2.25 billion Ponzi scheme.
Beware! There is a scammer that has created a fraudulent MetaMask website and is using it to defraud unsuspecting individuals.
Gutenberg Dos Santos will now stand trial in a New York court together with four others who were arrested in the United States.
It appears the BCH crowd have skipped the middle man of duping unsuspecting buyers into thinking they are Bitcoin and are now asking for money directly—this time under the guise of a website.
Court documents from the Jiangsu Yancheng Intermediate People's Court revealed that Chinese police had seized over $4.2 billion in digital currencies at today’s prices.
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has said the government would work to develop digital currency markets in a “civilized direction.”
