The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office and the FBI have dismantled infrastructure allegedly used by an Eastern European ...
A multinational crypto scam network targeted investors twice, first through fake investment platforms and later through ...
The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 241 scam websites and 112 servers from a crypto fraud ring, recovering about $300,000 ...
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI shut down 241 crypto scam websites and seized 112 servers. Here is what investigators found.
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI disrupted a crypto fraud operation targeting Russian-speaking Americans, shutting down 241 ...
The FBI and Brooklyn prosecutors didn't just arrest a few people. They tore out the plumbing — 241 websites shut down, 112 servers seized, and an Eastern ...
President Donald Trump didn't see the value in bitcoin at first, but the latest earnings from a federal filing suggest he now sees it differently. In 2021, Trump said, "Bitcoin, it just seems like a ...
FinCEN found scam victims often move through a recognizable sequence, draining checking and savings, liquidating investments and retirement accounts, then tapping HELOCs, credit cards and personal ...
Robert Semanko told police he thought he couldn’t be scammed. Then last October the 31-year-old father of three from central Wisconsin got a call from a scammer posing as the Chippewa County Sheriff’s ...
Cryptocurrency scams have increased with the rapid growth of digital assets, costing investors billions each year. From fake giveaways and phishing schemes to elaborate romance and investment scams, ...
WASHINGTON — They pulled off one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history, duping a stranger out of bitcoin worth over $240 million. They tried to hide their digital fingerprints, carrying ...