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“# Bitcoin.org goes offline after suffering scam attack ” Bitcoin.org, one of the first websites about Bitcoin (BTC), has been hacked by online scammers and down as of the time of writing. Cobra, Bitcoin.org’s anonymous curator, announced on Sept. 23 that Bitcoin.org was compromised, with hackers managing to put up a scam notice on the site….
“# Aussie crypto fund manager sentenced to 7 years for stealing $54M from investors ” Stefan He Qin, the founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after U.S. authorities found that he cheated investors out of $54 million, A Sept. 15 statement from the U.S. Department…
“# Ohio man pleads guilty to fraud over $30M crypto scam promising 15% monthly ” The man behind a multi-million dollar cryptocurrency scam has pleaded guilty to fraud this week according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Ohio man Michael Ackerman could face up to 20 years inside following the guilty plea for defrauding investors…
“# Taiwan police arrest 14 suspects for scamming over 100 crypto investors ” Taiwan’s police administration has reportedly arrested 14 people for running a $5.41-million (150 million New Taiwan dollars) investment scam over the past year, involving more than 100 cryptocurrency investors. CIB investigator Kuo Yu-chih said that the scam was led by a local…
“# US SEC releases fresh investor alert against crypto investment scams ” The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a new alert about investment scams related to digital assets and cryptocurrency. The announcement shared by the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy and Division of Enforcement’s Retail Strategy Task Force highlighted the…
“# Kaspersky ranks cryptojackers among top malware threats in Africa ” Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has detected more than 1,500 fraudulent entities targeting potential crypto investors and miners just in the first half of 2021. Kaspersky’s research shows that 0.60% of users from South African countries have already been targeted by malicious crypto miners. The…
“# Eastern European victims sent $815M to Ponzis and scams in the past year ” Recent research has revealed that Eastern Europe remains a very high source of cybercrime activity — both from victims to scams, and from users to darknet markets — in the cryptocurrency sector. Cryptocurrency addresses based in the Eastern European region…
“# Bitconnect promoter pleads guilty over Ponzi scheme, as platform faces new SEC charges ” Former director and promoter of the notorious Bitconnect Ponzi scheme, Glenn Arcaro, has pled guilty to fraud charges related to his role in the now-defunct crypto exchange and lending platform He has been ordered to pay back $24 million to…
“# NFT whale ‘Pranksy’ pranked by fake Banksy for 97.7 ETH ” Nonfungible token collector Pransky was duped out of 97.67 Ether, worth $341,500, after the website of popular artist Banksy was hijacked to promote a fake NFT auction. However, almost all of the money has since been refunded. On Aug. 31, Pransky spotted a…
“# Australians lost over $25 million to bogus crypto investments: Report ” Investment scams in Australia cost investors more than 70 million Australian dollars ($50.5 million) in the first six months of 2021, with crypto scams contributing to more than 50% of the losses, according to Scamwatch data. As reported by the Australian Competition and…