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ForkLog 9 12.05.2023

Users flood Justin Sun’s wallet with meme tokens

Analysts at PeckShieldAlert recorded numerous transfers of meme tokens to the wallet of Tron founder Justin Sun.

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ForkLog 8 04.05.2023

Texas authorities accuse creator of Elon Musk AI Token of fraud

The Texas State Securities Board and several other agencies sent a notice of possible sanctions to Charlie Karagachanu and related entities regarding the promotion of TruthGPT Coin and Elon Musk AI Token.

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ForkLog 12 04.05.2023

WSB Coin plunges 90% on alleged dump by group curator

A WallStreetBets moderator-linked bot user zjz.eth converted part of the WSB Coin supply intended for the team into ETH in a Uniswap pool over several hours, triggering a price drop.

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ForkLog 6 04.05.2023

Court finds former OpenSea product director guilty of insider trading

Former OpenSea NFT marketplace product director Nathaniel Chastain has been found guilty of insider trading.

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ForkLog 10 28.04.2023

KuCoin Identified the User Behind Thousands of Meme-Tokens

KuCoin confirmed that the address allegedly responsible for launching thousands of fraudulent memecoins belongs to one of its users.

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ForkLog 7 28.04.2023

Court orders Mirror Trading organiser to pay $3.4 billion

A U.S. court in the Western District of Texas issued its ruling in the case of Cornelius Johannes Steynberg, founder and CEO of Mirror Trading International Proprietary Limited (MTI).

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ForkLog 19 27.04.2023

Phishing ads for Lido, DefiLlama and Zapper led to theft of over $4 million

Unknown attackers launched phishing ads for cryptocurrency projects in Google search, through which $4.16 million was stolen.

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ForkLog 11 26.04.2023

Spanish police uncover $110 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme

Spanish authorities have uncovered an organisation responsible for a $110 million cryptocurrency fraud, according to the local publication Majorca Daily Bulletin.

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ForkLog 19 20.04.2023

Researcher: Soulja Boy earned at least $730,000 from NFT scams

The rapper Soulja Boy conducted 73 promotions and 16 drops on Twitter, many of which were scams. Among them: RapDoge, Orion, The Life Token, SaferMars and ParrotsDAO.

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ForkLog 18 20.04.2023

In Russia, the number of cryptocurrency-related court cases has risen

Russian courts in 2022 issued 1,758 rulings related to cryptocurrencies, up 14.83% from the previous year.

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ForkLog 10 17.04.2023

Australians lost $148m to crypto scammers in 2022

In 2022, Australians handed over about $148.4m to criminals in cryptocurrency-related scams. The ACCC reports this.

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ForkLog 15 12.04.2023

Former JPMorgan employee charged in cryptocurrency fraud case

On 10 April, New York authorities arrested former JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank broker Rashon Russell on suspicion of fraud involving digital assets.

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