Crimes | ForkLog - Part 135

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ForkLog 11 14.09.2020

US charges Argyle Coin founder with $25 million fraud

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida have charged a 51-year-old Washington resident with fraud. According to a Department of Justice press release, he created a pyramid scheme and launched a cryptocurrency asset allegedly backed by diamonds.

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ForkLog 10 14.09.2020

A Russian man lost more than 1.5 million rubles in an attempt to invest in cryptocurrencies

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karachay-Cherkessia has opened a criminal case into fraud related to offers to invest in cryptocurrencies. This was reported on the department's website.

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ForkLog 21 14.09.2020

DeFi platform bZx loses $8 million in another attack

The DeFi platform bZx has been hacked for the third time this year. This time an unknown attacker withdrew around $8 million.

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ForkLog 10 14.09.2020

SEC fines rapper T.I. for promoting fraudulent ICOs

Rapper Clifford Harris Jr., known by the stage name T.I., has agreed to settle SEC charges over promoting a fraudulent ICO.

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ForkLog 95 11.09.2020

Bitcoin wallet with 69,370 BTC listed for sale on hacker forum

A cryptocurrency wallet containing 69,370 BTC (about $690 million) appeared for sale on the popular hacker forum RaidForums. Hudson Rock's chief technology officer Alon Gal drew attention to it.

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ForkLog 18 11.09.2020

Singapore Bitcoin broker jailed for $267,000 theft; three-year sentence and 12 strokes of the cane

A Singapore court delivered a sentence in the case of the 29-year-old cryptocurrency broker Yaromela Ji Ming Li. Li was charged in connection with the theft of $267,000, according to The Strait Times.

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ForkLog 19 11.09.2020

Russian ‘troll factory’ employee charged with fraud involving cryptocurrency accounts

OFAC indicted Russian national Artem Lifshits in a conspiracy to steal Americans' personal data and to open fraudulent banking and cryptocurrency accounts, the agency said in a press release.

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ForkLog 12 10.09.2020

Organisers of DeFi project vanish with $20m of users’ funds

The DeFi liquidity-mining pool project Yfdexf.Finance carried out an exit scam after investors blocked $20m of assets in its protocol, according to ZyCrypto.

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ForkLog 13 10.09.2020

Ripple accuses YouTube of inaction against scammers

Ripple accuses YouTube of deliberate inaction and challenges the assertion that the video hosting service knew nothing about the scammers on the platform. CoinDesk reports this.

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ForkLog 20 10.09.2020

Eterbase: Hackers moved stolen cryptocurrency to Binance and Huobi

Slovak bitcoin exchange Eterbase reported the initial results of the hack investigation. According to the company, a large part of the funds was moved by the hackers to Binance, Huobi, and HitBTC.

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ForkLog 17 10.09.2020

AT&T suit over $200m payout to bitcoin investor Terpin dismissed

The Central District of California dismissed the suit by BitAngels founder Michael Terpin against telecoms giant AT&T seeking damages, writes CoinDesk.

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ForkLog 11 10.09.2020

Police to verify information about cryptocurrency scammer from Moscow-City

A pensioner from Moscow told the police that he had fallen victim to a scammer who rents an office in the Federation Tower on Presnenskaya Embankment. This was reported by the Moscow agency.

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