Crimes | ForkLog - Part 107

ForkLog 10 02.04.2021

Arkhangelsk resident loses over 8 million rubles buying mining farms

Arkhangelsk police have opened a criminal case into fraud on a particularly large scale following a local resident's complaint after he was duped while trying to purchase mining farms.

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ForkLog 24 01.04.2021

Hidden-miner installer found in Call of Duty cheat code

Call of Duty developers have found that one of Warzone's popular cheats is malware and allows hackers to control victims' computers.

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ForkLog 19 01.04.2021

Crypto scammers fleece Kaliningrad resident of 1.3 million rubles

A Kaliningrad resident became a victim of criminals who promised her earnings from cryptocurrency, according to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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ForkLog 15 01.04.2021

DeepDotWeb darknet site operator pleads guilty to money laundering via Bitcoin

The administrator of the DeepDotWeb darknet news site, Tal Prihar, pleaded guilty to conspiring to launder money using cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 18 31.03.2021

Irish residents lose millions of euros on ‘Bitcoin investments’

Irish police are investigating a fraudulent scheme to attract investments in cryptocurrencies from wealthy individuals.

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ForkLog 25 31.03.2021

Fake Trezor app in the App Store swindled $1.6m from users

Users lost at least $1.6 million due to a fraudulent service masquerading as the Trezor hardware wallet app.

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ForkLog 7 31.03.2021

Ziggy ransomware operator to reimburse victims

The Ziggy creator has stated his readiness to compensate users harmed by his malware and who paid the ransom.

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ForkLog 11 31.03.2021

Novokuznetsk man loses 850,000 rubles in bid to profit from cryptocurrency

A 36-year-old resident of Novokuznetsk fell victim to cryptocurrency scammers and lost a total of about 850,000 rubles in an attempt to invest in cryptocurrency, according to the Interior Ministry.

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ForkLog 11 30.03.2021

Broker seeks $800,000 from intermediary after crypto seller vanishes

French national Alexander Raffin has filed suit against the cryptocurrency company Modern Assets Australia after an unsuccessful deal to buy digital assets.

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ForkLog 18 30.03.2021

Court shortens sentence for former Slovak Slovan hockey player Igor Musatov in bitcoin-fraud case

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of the former Slovak Slovan hockey player Igor Musatov, who was found guilty of large-scale bitcoin fraud, by three months.

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ForkLog 34 29.03.2021

Telegram channel impersonating a Bitcoin whale stole 0.6 BTC under UNI airdrop guise

A reader contacted ForkLog after paying more than $33,000 in cryptocurrency to the administrators of a Telegram channel selling signals allegedly from the Bitfinex Bitcoin trader Joe007.

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ForkLog 7 29.03.2021

In Hong Kong, Bitcoin ‘sellers’ stole nearly $500,000

In Hong Kong, criminals robbed two employees of a currency exchange company during a Bitcoin purchase worth 3.85 million Hong Kong dollars (about $495,000 at the time of writing).

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