All stories in Conspiracy (criminal)
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Victims lose $4.4B to cryptocurrency crime in first 9 months of 2019
It's been a bumper year so far for cryptocurrency criminals who have stolen over $4 billion worth of digital coins over the ...
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SIM swappers arrested after allegedly trying to steal over $550K in cryptocurrency
Authorities have arrested two men and charged them with plotting to steal half a million dollars worth of cryptocurrency ...
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Alleged EtherDelta hacker in federal court over $1.4M cryptocurrency plot
If convicted on all charges, the alleged EtherDelta hacker faces up to 40 years in prison, and at least $2.8 million in fines. ...
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Dad and daughter to serve time over mail-order cryptocurrency drug ring
A father and daughter have received a combined prison sentence of eight years after selling drugs in exchange for cryptocurrency ...
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NiceHash co-founder reportedly arrested over alleged stolen millions (again)
The co-founder of NiceHash, the well-known cryptocurrency hash power broker, has reportedly been arrested in Germany.
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Russia seizes 2,500 Bitmain cryptocurrency miners for dodging $1.2M in import fees
Authorities seized a trove of over 2,000 illegally imported Bitmain ASIC cryptocurrency miners from a Russian mining operation ...
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Engineer nabbed smuggling US military-grade chips to China faces 219 years in prison
The electrical engineer is facing up to 219 years in federal prison after being found guilty of trying to smuggle military-grade ...
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FBI charges NiceHash founder over dangerous dark web malware (again)
The FBI is hunting the founder of NiceHash over his role in distributing dangerous malware via dark web hacker forum Darkode. ...
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SIM-swappers face hundreds of years in prison for $2.4M cryptocurrency theft
An Irish man is facing upwards of 100 years in a US prison after allegedly stealing over $2 million worth of cryptocurrency ...
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The feds still haven't found the Nigerian scammers that stole $50K in Bitcoin
Two Nigerian nationals face charges of attempting to defraud US residents through numerous Bitcoin investment scams. The ...
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Fuck Aladdin, CRYPTO is the only live action film we want to see
This is the movie of the Bitcoin life you wish were leading. Seriously, this has everything. Even Kurt Russell in a farmer's ...
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Researchers found a psychological link between conspiracy theories and creationism
According to studies and researchers, teleological thinking also links to beliefs in conspiracy theories and creationism. ...
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$3M worth of cryptocurrency seized from Bulgarian criminals
Three individuals in Bulgaria have been arrested and charged after obtaining over $3 million (5 million lev) through illegal ...
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An American woman has been funding ISIS with Bitcoin
A Pakistani-American woman has confessed to using Bitcoin to launder dirty money to help finance terrorist organization ISIS. ...
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Google's definitely biased, but not in the way Trump thinks
In two tweets early Tuesday morning, President Trump reignited the debate about censorship on America's most popular tech ...
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Open thread: Should Twitter users automatically delete old tweets?
After multiple baseball players were forced to apologize this month for old tweets containing racist and homophobic slurs, ...
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Facebook follows YouTube in suspending Alex Jones
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been suspended from Facebook for bullying and hate speech. It's about damn time. Just ...
