
Brazil police, US authorities bust transnational crypto fraud ring led by ‘Bitcoin Sheikh’
Brazil's Federal Police busted the "Bitcoin Sheikh" for defrauding thousands of people worldwide and laundering $766 million illicit crypto funds.
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DeFi saw over $60 billion wiped out in 2022 but September saw a continued downtrend in recorded losses

The Nomad Bridge and Wintermute hacks account for 79.85% — $350 million — of all recorded losses.

Vitalik Buterin has described the bot menace as a "complete failure of blue checkmarks in their current form."

Lark continually claimed that he doesn’t get paid for his promotion of these projects despite being offered "truck loads of money daily to do so."

Aiden Pleterski and his cryptocurrency company AP Private Equity Limited allegedly cheated $35 million out of 140 investors while living in luxury.

The Better Business Bureau published a blog post that shows how crypto scams are carried out on TikTok and how to deal with them.



