For 8 years (2012-2020), cybercriminals organized over 136 dif | Crypto Investment
For 8 years (2012-2020), cybercriminals organized over 136 different scams and stole more than $ 16 billion from investors. Some scammers have earned really colossal sums:
- "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" was launched in 2012 and lured from investors 146,000 BTC (≈ $ 5 billion at the current rate).
- "OneCoin" was founded in 2014 and, according to the US prosecutor's office, collected about $ 4 billion by deception.
- The organizers of the ArbiStar scheme, founded in 2017, stole almost $ 1 billion from 120 thousand clients.
- "PlusToken", an Asian-oriented pyramid, was launched in 2018. And already in July 2019, the organizers of the project disappeared with $ 3 billion of their clients' investments.
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