Its been a while we wrote about current Crypto trades and scams! With a decentralized market, do you think we should even think about investing in Crypto? It may have made many millionaires but also signifcant number of people lost money in trade and investment scams, recovery etc.
So why actually trust it, should we want it as regulated or not? its a debatable topic. But latest emerging trends in scams and their names would come from the list of scammers actually trading via exchanges using fake names and ID’s. Its growing extremely popular and wonder how exchanges are verifying the id’s? we may need more stringent procedures like banks but then again its leading to regulation and compliance..isnt it?
The scammers are again active and below are some new and existing in the market for a while using typical honey trapping or targeting vulnerable people in UK/EU.
Scammers are sitting in China, Germany, Nigeria, Chad, Russia and States…
some companies and names are listed :
- Crypto Recovery experts (expertsrecovery@gmail.com)
2. Investdb (was investxe) – based out of China and Germany, Fake Investment management company
3. BMG advisory – uses Forex trading app:
4. Foint trade – Forex and Investments using Crypto trading
5. Recovery agents – recoveryagents247@gmail.com – Goes under the name of Roman Howard aka Obafemi.
6. Silk Global Holdings Top – silkglobaltop.com
A California resident has complained to DFPI about a crypto asset trading site, silkglobaltop.com. The victim met a man at a coffee shop who shared that he owned a successful gold trading company. The man said that if the victim was interested in making money, the man’s niece would follow up with more information. A few days later, the victim received a text from “Alissa.” Alissa told the victim they should wire money to a foreign bank called “Silk,” which operated a trading platform where they could trade crypto assets.
7. ren.digl.live
(Entity Impersonating Arkadiko Finance)
For US/west coast – visit https://dfpi.ca.gov/consumer-alerts-crypto-assets/?
For UK – https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/cryptocurrencyfraud
https://www.techopedia.com/10-most-common-cryptocurrency-scams