Police Forces in Belgium, France and Israel Stop Scam Promising 35% Returns - page 2.

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Quote from: Bttzed03 on February 03, 2020, 06:11:47 AM

I wonder why the article doesn't even mention local news sources. I'm pretty sure stories like this would have made it in main stream publications. With just estimated amounts scammed, this is looking like a made up story by the author. Not even the name of the group was mentioned and other relevant information. We have to be more careful of what we read these days, even articles from known crypto news sites are just pure rubbish Grin

The article is quite vague, but upon further investigation, the news have been sourced out of EuroJust. If you're interested, read it here: http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/press/PressReleases/Pages/2020/2020-01-30.aspx

The 6.6 million scam must be the total of all the stated amount by victims and their investigation when the members of the OCG has been arrested.

The news is quite new too, and to give you a gist, there's a total of 85 victims defrauded, and 10 personalities arrested.

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Quote from: Jating on February 03, 2020, 05:48:38 AM

Police Forces in Belgium, France and Israel Stop Scam Promising 35% Returns on Crypto Investments

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Police forces in Belgium, France and Israel have reportedly put a stop to an international scam promising high returns of up to 35% on crypto investments. A big French private company and a French local authority are said to be among the 85 victims of this network. In total, 10 suspects related to the case have been arrested.

https://news.bitcoin.com/belgium-france-israel-scam/
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I wonder why the article doesn't even mention local news sources. I'm pretty sure stories like this would have made it in main stream publications. With just estimated amounts scammed, this is looking like a made up story by the author. Not even the name of the group was mentioned and other relevant information. We have to be more careful of what we read these days, even articles from known crypto news sites are just pure rubbish Grin

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Quote from: blckhawk on February 03, 2020, 06:43:05 AM

The article is quite vague, but upon further investigation, the news have been sourced out of EuroJust. If you're interested, read it here: http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/press/PressReleases/Pages/2020/2020-01-30.aspx

The 6.6 million scam must be the total of all the stated amount by victims and their investigation when the members of the OCG has been arrested.

Thanks for this. Even the source article is quite vague but it's better than the one in the OP. Where did you get the EURO 6.6 million by the way? In both articles, it's EURO 6 million.

On topic, I honestly didn't think people from the so-called first world would still fall for this trick. I thought those from third world countries are the usual victims. On the bright side though, the joint effort by the authorities to bring down an OCG is highly commendable.

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Police Forces in Belgium, France and Israel Stop Scam Promising 35% Returns on Crypto Investments

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Police forces in Belgium, France and Israel have reportedly put a stop to an international scam promising high returns of up to 35% on crypto investments. A big French private company and a French local authority are said to be among the 85 victims of this network. In total, 10 suspects related to the case have been arrested.

https://news.bitcoin.com/belgium-france-israel-scam/

At least as crypto investors, we like to hear this kind of news are there are a lot of cyber criminals in the crypto sphere. It's a collective effort on the part of the authorities, so we comment those guys. I think we might see more of this in the future and I think it will bring more good to us. €6 Million is a big sum of money and we don't know if those investors are retirees or who really work hard for that money only to be stolen by this crooks. Hope that those criminals are going to stay in jail for at 5 - 10 years and suffer the consequences.

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