by L Poole | May 17, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
A judge has frozen the assets of a Chatham-Kent investment company amid a proposed $5-million lawsuit alleging its actions cost investors millions. Among the allegations, not yet tested in court, is that Banknote Capital Inc., kept soliciting money from new investors...
by L Poole | Apr 6, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
Toronto police have recovered a ‘significant portion’ of what is alleged to be a $400,000 cryptocurrency scam. According to police, a Toronto man filed a complaint to report that he and his wife had been scammed out of $400,000 in a cryptocurrency investment scheme....
by L Poole | Mar 31, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured, From Investigation Counsel PC
Aiden Pleterski’s lawyer has not commented on latest allegations. An alleged kidnapping, duped investors and losses topping $40 million — those are some of the newest details emerging as authorities try to unravel what Canada’s self-proclaimed Crypto King did...
by L Poole | Feb 17, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
The SEC charged Terraform and its CEO Do Kwon with defrauding investors. Kwon and Terraform perpetrated a “multi-billion” dollar fraud against investors as part of marketing the TerraUSD and luna coins, which collapsed in May 2022. Kwon is a fugitive, and...
by L Poole | Feb 3, 2023 | Breaking Court Decisions, Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
The founder of a defunct cryptocurrency business was sentenced on Tuesday to more than eight years in prison for defrauding investors and customers out of millions of dollars by marketing a virtual currency called My Big Coin with lies and half-truths. Federal...
by L Poole | Feb 1, 2023 | Breaking News, Cryptocurrency, Featured
Awoman meets a man online. They flirt. Then, after a few weeks, they begin imagining a future together. Fast forward a few months and one of them has had their heart broken and been defrauded of their life savings. It sounds like a classic romance scam, but it isn’t....