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ForkLog 23 29.06.2023

U.S. court orders crypto scammer to pay more than $50 million

The district court in New York ordered Ohio resident Michael Ackerman to pay more than $50 million for alleged fraud involving multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency investments.

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ForkLog 8 24.05.2023

FBI warns of new cryptocurrency fraud linked to overseas job scams

The FBI has warned of a new form of fraud involving overseas job vacancies in which scammers lure people into criminal schemes tied to investments in digital assets.

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ForkLog 17 22.05.2023

Employee of CoinDeal investment project charged with $45 million fraud.

A 57-year-old Brian Li from Las Vegas was charged in connection with the CoinDeal investment-fraud scheme, with losses exceeding $45 million.

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ForkLog 10 15.05.2023

American citizen sentenced to six years in prison for cryptocurrency extortion

The court sentenced former Ubiquiti employee Nicholas Sharp to six years in prison for extortion of digital assets worth $2 million.

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ForkLog 119 15.05.2023

Users lose more than $15 million on fake HitBTC site

Attackers stole more than $15 million in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT and other cryptocurrencies through a fake HitBTC exchange site, according to SlowMist.

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ForkLog 11 12.05.2023

Users flood Justin Sun’s wallet with meme tokens

Analysts at PeckShieldAlert recorded numerous transfers of meme tokens to the wallet of Tron founder Justin Sun.

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ForkLog 9 04.05.2023

Texas authorities accuse creator of Elon Musk AI Token of fraud

The Texas State Securities Board and several other agencies sent a notice of possible sanctions to Charlie Karagachanu and related entities regarding the promotion of TruthGPT Coin and Elon Musk AI Token.

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ForkLog 15 04.05.2023

WSB Coin plunges 90% on alleged dump by group curator

A WallStreetBets moderator-linked bot user zjz.eth converted part of the WSB Coin supply intended for the team into ETH in a Uniswap pool over several hours, triggering a price drop.

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ForkLog 7 04.05.2023

Court finds former OpenSea product director guilty of insider trading

Former OpenSea NFT marketplace product director Nathaniel Chastain has been found guilty of insider trading.

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ForkLog 15 28.04.2023

KuCoin Identified the User Behind Thousands of Meme-Tokens

KuCoin confirmed that the address allegedly responsible for launching thousands of fraudulent memecoins belongs to one of its users.

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ForkLog 10 28.04.2023

Court orders Mirror Trading organiser to pay $3.4 billion

A U.S. court in the Western District of Texas issued its ruling in the case of Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, founder and CEO of Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI).

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ForkLog 38 27.04.2023

Phishing ads for Lido, DefiLlama and Zapper led to theft of over $4 million

Unknown attackers launched phishing ads for cryptocurrency projects in Google search, through which $4.16 million was stolen.

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