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A resident of California found himself guilty of the theft and money laundering for up to $ 1.5 million. He seemed to the victims the owner of a successful business and a bitcoin investor, the US Ministry of Justice said in a press release.

In the third quarter, the crypto industry lost $ 428 million from hacks and scam

For the third quarter of 2022, the total losses of the Web3 ecosystem from hacks and fraud amounted to $ 428.7 million, experts of the Bounty Platform Immunefi calculated.

MasterCard will introduce a tool for checking bitcoin fraud

MasterCard payment network will launch the Crypto Secure tool. It will allow banks to identify and suppress transactions with crypto -streaks subject to fraudulent practices, writes CNBC.

In the Brazils of the suspect in crypto -mesh, they obliged to reimburse $ 3.7 billion

The court in Rio de Janeiro demanded from the founder of Gas Consultoria Glaidson Akasio Dos Santos to make a deposit of 19 billion of Brazilian reaishes (~ $ 3.7 billion). Funds will be directed to SHIBA and John the payment of compensation to the victims of cryptocurrency fraud, writes O Globo.

In the United States, Igobit fraudulent scheme was sentenced to organizer

The court found the court guilty of organizing a cryptocurrency schematic scheme of a 50-year-old resident of Washington ASA Saint-Clera. This was reported by the Ministry of Justice.

The Netherlands arrested a suspect of fraud with an Electrum bitcoin

The Netherlands police arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicion of laundering funds stolen with the help of malicious updating of the Electrum cryptocurrent.

Australia recorded an increase in the number of bitcoin-cums

From January to July 2022, residents of Australia lost $ 167 million due to fraudulent schemes related to investments and cryptocurrencies.

A resident of the United States admitted to participate in the cryptocurrency pyramid for $ 100 million

The “main trader” of the cryptocurrency pyramid of Empiresx Joshua Nicholas found himself guilty of conspiracy to make fraud with securities in the amount of $ 100 million.

Fraudsters launched a fake distribution of bitcoins under the guise of Apple presentation

September 7, on the day of the IPhone 14 presentation, unknown people launched the broadcast of the old interview with CEO Apple Tim Cook in an attempt to kidnap cryptocurrencies.

In India, suspects were arrested in a fraudulent scheme with cryptocurrencies

Law enforcement agencies of the state of Maharastra (India) arrested suspects in organizing a fraudulent scheme with cryptocurrencies. About this writes Coindesk.

Ilona fraudulent Dipfack Mask was placed on the Youtube channel of the Government of South Korea

On Saturday, September 3, the unknown hacked the Youtube channel, owned by the South Korean government, renamed it in SpaceX Invest and uploaded fabricated videos with Ilon Mask, discussing cryptocurrencies.

In Ukraine, a fraudulent scheme with bitcoin investments was revealed

The National Police, together with the SBU, closed the branched network of call centers engaged in the assignment of funds of citizens of Ukraine and the EU countries under the guise of exchange trading cryptocurrencies, securities, gold and oil.

The US Congressman requested Bitcoin-Birzh to combat fraud

Member of the House of Representatives of the USA Raja Krishnamurti sent letters to a number of federal departments and cryptocurrency exchanges with a request to provide data on the fight against fraud.

Elliptic: Fraudsters stole NFT in the amount of more than $ 100 million for a year

For 12 months since July 2021, attackers stole NFT worth more than $ 100 million as a result of fraud, the analytical company Elliptic said in the report.

Sudorare NFT-Torge team disappeared from 519 ETH

The developers of the decentralized exchange of non -replaceable Sudorare tokens have implemented the Rug Pull scheme. They displayed assets, turned off the project website and deleted accounts in social networks.

Hackers used a diplay for fraud with listing on Binance

The group of hackers impersoned CCO Binance Patrick Hillmann in a series of video calls with representatives of cryptocurrency projects, which she promised to assist in the listing on the stock exchange for a reward.

In Israel, the scheme of laundering of millions of euros through cryptocurrencies was revealed

The Israeli Tax Administration and Police arrested three suspects in organizing an international fraudulent scheme for laundering millions of euros using cryptocurrencies.

The owner of hedge funds was accused of Bitcoin Mennance by $ 12 million

The OGIO County Court came a lawsuit from CFTC against a local resident accused of organizing a financial pyramid with a damage to more than $ 12 million in cash and bitcoin.

The Dragoma gaming project on Polygon has become a victim of the Rug Pull scheme

DRAGOMA WEB3 GARS developers on the basis of the Polygon network implemented the Rug Pull fraud scheme, PeckShield experts said. The price of the DMA token fell by 99.9%.

Aurora Labs manager revealed a crypto-legged scheme with OTC

The head of the Aurora Labs products department Matt Henderson spoke about "Exciting and sophisticated" scheme of fraud with cryptocurrency OTC soda, the victim of which he almost became.

Google and Apple demanded to report on measures to combat fraudulent crypto applications

The Chairman of the US banking committee of the US Senate Sherrod Brown turned to Alphabet and Apple with an appeal to provide information about the methods of preventing cryptocurrency fraud in applications located in their stores.

A fraudulent investment scheme in mining was exposed in Kyiv

Kyiv law enforcement officers identified four attackers who allegedly appropriated the money of victims under the guise of investment in mining farm.

For the second quarter, crypto projects lost more than $ 670 million from hacks

In the second quarter of 2022, the total losses of crypto projects from hacks and fraud amounted to $ 670,698,280, Immunefi Bounty Platforms said.

Hackers hacked the British Army accounts on Twitter and YouTube to promote cryptoquam

Unknown hackled British Army accounts on Twitter and YouTube and used them to promote fraud associated with cryptocurrencies. The country’s Ministry of Defense was confirmed by hacking.

CFTC has accused Mirror Trading of Bitcoin Mennits of $ 1.7 billion

U.S. URSE -FIRE TRAING (CFTC) accused the South African company Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI) and its head of Cornelius Johannes Steinberg in fraud using cryptocurrencies, as well as violations in registration of registration.

The FBI included the founder of Onecoin in the ten most wanted criminals

The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) included the founder of the Onecoin pyramid Rudzhu Ignatov in the list of ten most wanted criminals. This was stated in the office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.

FBI: Fraudsters use dipfaces on online research

The Center for Crime complaints on the Internet (IC3) under the FBI warned of the growing number of cases of using stolen personal information and diphs when employing for remote work in an IT sector.

Media: Huobi accused the ex-employee of illegal trade

Huobi Bitcoin Torge filed a civil lawsuit against former senior manager Chen Boliang, reports Financial Times (FT).

Related to Qanon Telegram channels lured millions of dollars through the promotion of fraudulent tokens

Over the past year, authoritative supporters of the theory of conspiracy the theory of Qanon were convinced by thousands of followers to invest in fraudulent tokens. This is evidenced by the investigation by Logically.

Elliptic spoke about using Dogecoin scammers and criminals

Elliptic experts have discovered a transaction related to the illegal activity of millions of dollars with Dogecoin meme. The analytical company reported FORKLOG about this.

Telegram denied a leak of more than 137 GB of messages from cryptocurrency chats

Twitter user said that he was able to access 137.21 GB of Telegram Users Messages. Representatives of the messenger did not confirm the leak.

FTC: The victims of fraudsters lost more than $ 1 billion in cryptocurrencies

From January 2021 to March 2022, consumers lost more than $ 1 billion as a result of fraud associated with digital assets. This is stated in the report of the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

Thai residents were detained in Thailand for organizing a cryptocurrency fraudulent scheme

Thai police detained six residents of Taiwan in Bangkok. According to investigators, they deceived more than 500 people through a fraudulent scheme of investment in cryptocurrency.

Media: ex-head of the WEX Dmitry Vasiliev was detained in Croatia

Former owner of the cryptocurrency exchange of WEX Dmitry Vasiliev was detained while trying to enter Croatia.

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