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Fraudulent online investment platform: five arrests of high-value targets

21/04/2023(0)
Eurojust and Europol have supported a new coordinated action against a fraudulent online investment platform, which has so far cost at least 33 000 victims an estimated EUR 89 ... Read More
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Alert! Criminals taking advantage of coronavirus anxiety to defraud victims online

18/03/2020(0)
INTERPOL is encouraging the public to exercise caution when buying medical supplies online during the current health crisis, with criminals capitalizing on the situation to run a range of ... Read More
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Firm and CEO to pay more than $2.5 Million for fraudulent Bitcoin ponzi scheme

19/10/2018(0)
A New York federal court has ordered New York corporation Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. (GBI) and its Chief Executive Officer Nicholas Gelfman of Brooklyn, New York, to pay in total ... Read More
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U.S. Regulatory Authority shuts Down $102 Million Ponzi Scheme

21/06/2018(0)
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed charges and obtained an asset freeze against the individuals and companies behind a $102 million Ponzi scheme that bilked investors throughout the ... Read More
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Defendants sentenced in FCA prosecution of £1.4 million investment scheme

21/12/2017(0)
Samrat Bhandari, Dr Muhammad Aleem Mirza, Michael Moore and Paul Moore, each of whom played a role in the operation of an investment scheme which led to investors losing ... Read More
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International fraudulent scheme controller fined for more than $2 million

11/10/2017(0)
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the Honorable Joan B. Gottschall of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Final Judgment and ... Read More
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More than 23,000 investors lost money in a Forex scam

30/03/2017(0)
Police in Malaysia finally took down the VenusFX forex scheme syndicate that swindled RM80mil from more than 23,000 victims. Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department director Comm Datuk Acryl Sani ... Read More
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Binary options – AMF updates its list of illegally operating platforms

30/11/2016(0)
Once again, the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) is sounding the alarm and alerting Québec consumers to the dangers of binary options. The AMF wishes to stress that ... Read More
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The founder of the Bitcoin Savings and Trust company gets 18 months in prison for Fraud

25/07/2016(0)
Trendon Shavers, the mastermind behind the disgraced Bitcoin Savings & Trust Ponzi scheme, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison on one count of securities fraud. In addition, ... Read More
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Fraudsters of a Gold investment scam have been sentenced to prison

26/05/2016(0)
Four American fraudsters who conned hundreds of British citizens out of millions of pounds through a bogus gold mining investment scheme have today been sentenced to prison in Tampa, ... Read More
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