In brief
A Nigerian national allegedly posed as a Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee official using a lookalike email to steal $250K in Ethereum-based USDT.
AI and deepfake technology will “amplify the scale and…
Four North Korean nationals were charged in the state of Georgia with wire fraud and money laundering after posing as remote IT workers at US and Serbian blockchain companies and…
In brief
Four North Korean agents allegedly used stolen identities to land remote IT jobs at a U.S. crypto startup.
The group stole roughly $900,000 in two transactions and laundered crypto through…
A Kansas banker who looted millions from his small-town bank in 2023, which triggered its collapse, lost much of the money to overseas crypto scammers targeted in a record-breaking DOJ…
Officials with the US Department of Justice announced the seizure by the Secret Service of more than $225 million “linked to cryptocurrency investment scams.”In a Wednesday notice, the DOJ said it had…
Key Points:The U.S. DOJ seeks to seize over $225.3 million in cryptocurrency connected to fraud.Secret Service’s largest recorded cryptocurrency recovery operation.Increased DOJ efforts highlight enforcement in blockchain money laundering cases.
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In briefHere are 3 very concise bullet points:
• DOJ seized $7.74 million in crypto laundered by North Korean IT workers who used fake identities to get jobs at U.S. companies.
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The US Department of Justice has moved to seize $7.74 million in crypto allegedly earned by North Korean IT workers using fake identities and working at blockchain firms as remote…
Millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, allegedly
earned by North Korean IT workers using stolen U.S. identities, now sit frozen
as part of a sweeping U.S. forfeiture action aimed at dismantling a
sophisticated sanctions-evasion…
The federal judge overseeing Roman Storm's prosecution declined to order the Department of Justice to review its records for any materials it might have missed that would help the Tornado…