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A U.S. government contractor accused of stealing more than $46 million in crypto from the U.S. Marshals Service has been arrested in Saint Martin following a joint international law enforcement operation, according to the FBI. John Daghita captured in a…
Interviews
Stephanie Talamantez, former FBI Special Agent and now Senior Managing Director at Guidepost Solutions, shares her insights on the latest crypto fraud trends, how illicit funds are traced, compliance gaps and more.
Follow-up
On Oct. 14, 2025, the Department of Justice reported that it had forfeited 127,271 bitcoins from a Cambodia-based scam operation. Soon after, some of the crypto influencers claimed that the U.S. is now holding 325,000 or 327,000 BTC. Are these…
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FBI investigators say a disturbing new fraud tactic is spreading: con artists posing as attorneys are cold-contacting crypto scam victims, promising fund recovery before stealing even more. The scheme preys on desperation with alarming sophistication. In an alert issued August…
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FBI has finally dropped investigation into Kraken's Jesse Powell, over disputes with his non-profit.
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Investment scams involving crypto accounted for more than 50% of all reported crypto losses in 2024, according to the FBI’s latest report. Cybercrime involving cryptocurrencies hit record highs in 2024, with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center reporting $16.6 billion…
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CLS Global, a crypto market maker registered in the United Arab Emirates, has been hit with a $428,000 fine for wash trading of the FBI’s bait token NexFundAI. On April 2, a federal court in Boston sentenced CLS Global on…
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A federal jury has convicted Rowland Marcus Andrade, the founder and CEO of AML Bitcoin, of wire fraud and money laundering related to the fraudulent marketing and sale of the cryptocurrency. The verdict was reached after a five-week trial in…
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it helped save an estimated $285 million that victims would have lost to cryptocurrency scams. According to a report published on Feb. 13, the FBI pointed to an initiative dubbed “Operation Level Up”…
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FBI investigators charged a UAE-based crypto firm for generating fake volume with wash trading algorithms on Uniswap’s decentralized exchange.
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How did a crypto betting platform become a global controversy, drawing fire from Singapore and the FBI and outraged users? Polymarket’s mounting troubles Singapore shines as a leading hub for technology and innovation. Yet, when it comes to gambling, the…
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating crypto scammers who posed as romantic interests to defraud victims of nearly $5 million through dubious investment schemes. Federal prosecutors in North Carolina are looking to seize over $4.99 million recovered from unhosted…
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Polymarket was named the subject of a DOJ investigation over whether the predictions market allowed U.S. users on its platform.
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Federal agents seized a mobile device and other electronic gadgets owned by Polymarket Shayne Coplan after his Polygon-based correctly predicted Donald Trump's victory.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston have indicted Aleksei Andriunin, a 26-year-old Russian national and founder of Gotbit, on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit market manipulation. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the indictment alleges that Andriunin and his…
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Eric Council Jr., a 25-year-old from Athens, Alabama, was arrested in connection with the January 2024 hack of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account. Council’s hack resulted in the false pretense that the SEC had approved Bitcoin exchange-traded…
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