A Coinbase scam stole roughly $15.94M from about 100 users before Ronald Spektor was sentenced in New York to 4 to 12 years in prison.
Coinbase joined London's Joint Disruption Week, helping block over $415,000 in losses as authorities targeted scam networks in Ghana and Nigeria.
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West Africa scam crackdown removes 3.7M accounts, flags $11M in crypto
An organized campaign against scam operations in West Africa has resulted in the arrest of 28 people in Ghana and Nigeria.
Ghanaian authorities arrested 19 people in Sasaabi, near Accra, and seized 303 electronic devices. Investigators identified ...
The scammers also ran a fake recovery service, contacting victims weeks later with promises to get their stolen crypto back.
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No arrests as Brooklyn DA claws back about $300,000 from crypto scam ring
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 241 scam websites and 112 servers from a crypto fraud ring, recovering about $300,000 ...
Pig butchering, address poisoning and AI deepfakes are just a few of the tricks scammers have up their sleeves.
Authorities around the world have been heavily targeting scam infrastructure this year, with joint actions involving the US, UAE, China, Austria and Albania. Crypto exchange Coinbase said it froze ...
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