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U.S. authorities have restrained more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency as overseas scam networks expand beyond Southeast Asia. New charges describe an alleged Madagascar dating scam that lured Americans into…
A Rochester man’s fraud scheme moved unauthorized credit-card payments through bank accounts before funding bitcoin purchases and transfers to co-conspirators. Timothy Wadsworth received a prison sentence after processing hundreds of…
A Chinese national faces a U.S. money laundering charge after extradition from the Netherlands in an alleged cryptocurrency scam involving more than $36.9 million. Investigators identified 174 American victims whose…
A crypto-only dark web marketplace has brought its co-founder decades in federal prison and an agreement to surrender digital assets and real estate. The case involved drug trafficking, concealed payments,…
The U.S. government’s cryptocurrency shuffle isn’t over. Following two days of bitcoin transfers totaling $770 million, federal wallets moved another 12,267.02 BTC worth approximately $1.01 billion on Thursday. The latest…
Fraudulent texts posing as Coinbase allegedly led to the theft of 33.7 bitcoin from two wallets held within one account. The bitcoin was worth approximately $900,000 at the time of…
The largest stablecoin issuer would have been using the firm as a bridge to be able to hold bank accounts in the U.S. and settle payments to “hundreds of individuals…
Iris Rabaya Au received an 18-month federal prison sentence after pleading guilty to concealing more than $2.6 million she obtained through her former boyfriend’s criminal activities. The money moved through…
U.S. prosecutors are seeking forfeiture of roughly $61 million in cryptocurrency allegedly generated through sanctioned Iranian oil sales. The assets are tied to a wider network accused of moving more…
Two Robinhood engineers allegedly turned one of the company’s most sensitive pieces of information, which cryptocurrencies were about to get listed, into a personal trading signal on Hyperliquid. Federal prosecutors…