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Topic: [2017-10-07] Founder of GAW Miners Pleads Guilty To Fraud Charges (Read 2431 times)

legendary
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This really makes me wonder why the SEC or others haven't tried going after the other cloud miners. I strongly suspect that this guy was merely copying the strategies of the big guys in cloud mining. Yes, I do believe they actually have legitimate mining in place, but with some of the largest companies supposedly having tens of thousands of clients with at least 1 contract, and incredibly long waiting lists, they should be making serious dents in global hashpool share (but not all are). Hopefully, more "scammed clients" lodge reports with EU bodies to look into the matter.

I know people say that idiots should just be left to their own devices, and that those who fall for cloud mining is just natural selection at work, but I just dislike the fact that some of these cloud mining companies are seen as solid entrepreneurs while fleecing a lot of innocent people who actually want to be a part of Bitcoin - their version of it anyway.

thats because GAW miners were semi-legit,unlike the majority of the cloudminings out there
GAW miners had the paperwork in place,registered and looked fime from the SEC's point of view...at first
they did have some mining,equipment,but like modern banks they had 1/10 of the reserves
and strarted to accept invesments while having no chance to repay,running a classic pyramide
while SEC and other financial institutions close down cloud minings,the largest scams aka banks
keep doing fine and stealing our money
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This really makes me wonder why the SEC or others haven't tried going after the other cloud miners. I strongly suspect that this guy was merely copying the strategies of the big guys in cloud mining. Yes, I do believe they actually have legitimate mining in place, but with some of the largest companies supposedly having tens of thousands of clients with at least 1 contract, and incredibly long waiting lists, they should be making serious dents in global hashpool share (but not all are). Hopefully, more "scammed clients" lodge reports with EU bodies to look into the matter.

I know people say that idiots should just be left to their own devices, and that those who fall for cloud mining is just natural selection at work, but I just dislike the fact that some of these cloud mining companies are seen as solid entrepreneurs while fleecing a lot of innocent people who actually want to be a part of Bitcoin - their version of it anyway.
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Josh Garza, Founder and CEO of the infamous GAW Miners has been ordered to pay almost $10 million to the SEC.

Josh Garza, CEO of  GAW, GAW Miners, ZenMiner, and ZenCloud plead guilty to a $9 million fraud scheme back in July of this year. Pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud related to his role in his companies’ purported generation and sale of virtual currency, Garza has now been ordered to pay almost $10 million, consisting of $9.1 million, plus $700,000 in interest.

The civil complaint, which was first brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission in December 2015, alleged that Garza and his companies sold more than 10,000 “investment contracts representing shares in the profits they claimed would be generated from using their purported computing power to ‘mine’ for virtual currency.” Gaza has also admitted that he ran an illegal pyramid scheme.

The full article

https://bitcoinist.com/founder-gaw-miners-pleads-guilty-fraud-charges/
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