Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market for crypto scammers and money launderers that enabled $27B+ in transactions, shuts down after mass account bans
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee …
Trump pardons BitMEX founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, who previously pled guilty to federal criminal charges related to money laundering
Is Do Kwon Next? Associated Press : Trump pardons founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola, Trevor Milton Assad Jafri / CryptoSlate : Trump exonerates BitMEX co-founder in landmark anti-money laund...
Indian police arrest Aleksej Besciokov, the co-founder of Garantex, a Russian crypto exchange sanctioned by the EU and the US, at the request of US authorities
including terrorist [image] @secretservice : #ICYMI Our agency dealt a major blow to money launderers and cybercriminals, seizing website domains linked to Russian crypto exchange Garantex and freezin...
A UN report says Tether's token is one of the leading payment methods for money launderers and fraudsters, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast Asia
Digital currency at the heart of scams including fake romance frauds known as ‘pig butchering’, report says
Elliptic: the FTX hackers who stole $415M to $432M in crypto in November 2022 used Russia-linked money launderers in October 2023 after moving the funds in 2022
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A look at business email compromise scams involving US real estate, and the small Secret Service team that helped recover $244M+ in stolen BEC funds since 2019
For weeks, the Secret Service agent had been trying to identify the scammers moving millions of stolen dollars through banks around the New York tri-state area. Tweets: @amyokruk , @secretservice , @j...
Money launderers are using Chinese online shopping sites to funnel billions of dollars to offshore gambling accounts using fake transactions
Financial Times : Tweets: @briefnorris and @rshorsey Tweets: Michael Norris / @briefnorris : Sketchy $PDD: “Several gamblers said they had used $PDD to transfer money. Zhao Yongdong, who became addic...
Apple updates its 13" MacBook Pro with the Magic Keyboard, available to order today from $1,299; model with 10th-gen Intel CPUs and faster RAM starts at $1,799
read this before you buy Dieter Bohn / The Verge : The new 13" MacBook Pro marks the end of Apple's butterfly keyboards, which debuted in 2015 and remained unreliable despite numerous iterations Brian...