A California court has ordered five individuals involved in IcomTech's "Ponzi scheme" to pay more than $5 million for fraud and embezzlement of stolen funds through a fake bitcoin trading scheme. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said in a statement on Dec. 11 that the default judgment order found David Carmona, Juan Arellano Parra, Moses Valdez, and David Brend liable for all violations of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as alleg...
Nigeria's proposed Investment and Securities Bill, which proposes prison sentences for Ponzi scheme operators, has been welcomed by cryptocurrency industry players who hope the move will help cleanse the sector of its reputation.
According to on-chain analyst @ErgoBTC, 7,000 ETH related to Ponzi scheme PlusToken were transferred to the exchange in the past 24 hours, worth $16 million, which may indicate an intention to sell these assets.