Showing posts with label scams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scams. Show all posts
Thursday, February 05, 2026

Bitcoin down almost half from its highs

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Bitcoin’s plunge accelerated on Thursday, as the world’s largest cryptocurrency fell more than 10% to below $66,000 in afternoon trading, a ...
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Sam Bankman-Fried Gets 25 Years

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Meanwhile the great crypto-con continues. As of this post, people are spending near $70,000 a piece for imaginary money called bitcoin. Stul...
Friday, January 05, 2024

How many more times will we be conned by crypto?

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Why haven’t floating rate cryptocurrencies gone the way of the Beta recorder? Fifteen years of experience have laid bare their fundamental f...
Wednesday, December 06, 2023

Jamie Dimon on Crypto

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“I’ve always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin, et cetera,” the head of the largest U.S. bank by assets said under questioning from Sen...
Friday, November 03, 2023

Gall Effrontery Temerity

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Call it what you will. Today I got a spam text on behalf of the former grifter N chief complaining about political persecution and begging f...
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Monday, August 14, 2023

Is Donald Trump the world's greatest con-man? Probably

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If he pulls this off, former President Donald Trump will have earned his place as the most successful con artist in political history. Who b...
Monday, July 31, 2023

The latest crypto-con

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SEC sues entrepreneur, alleging $1 billion in unregistered crypto sales and multimillion-dollar fraud The so-called crypto industry is a hig...
Friday, July 28, 2023

A book recommendation

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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud If you own crypto, or are thinking of dabbling in it; I strongl...
Friday, November 11, 2022

One Year Ago, the Crypto-Con Peaked: Since then, $2 trillion has been wiped out.

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A year ago this week, investors were describing bitcoin as the future of money and ethereum as the world’s most important developer tool. No...
Tuesday, February 01, 2022

Psychic Con Artists

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What does it take for someone to impersonate a dead teenager to the grieving mother of the deceased? For M Lamar Keene, a prominent Tampa-ba...
Friday, September 24, 2021

China: All crypto-currency related activities are illegal

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China’s central bank renewed its tough talk on bitcoin Friday, calling all digital currency activities illegal and vowing to crack down on t...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

The Smartest Guys in the Room Call Bitcoin “Rat Poison Squared,” “a Colossal Pump-and-Dump Scheme” and “a Big Criminal Scam” but Federal Regulators Look the Other Way

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Anne Goldgar wrote of the Dutch Tulip bubble in her 2007 book, Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age, that “the f1000 one migh...
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Thursday, March 01, 2012

Phone company rips off US servicemen

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Army Sgt. Richard Corder and his unit were headed to Iraq in May when their military charter made a refueling stop in Leipzig, Germany. It w...
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Saturday, March 06, 2010

Breaking With Scientology

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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Raised as Scientologists, Christie King Collbran and her husband, Chris, were recruited as teenagers to work for the elit...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Scientology On Trial For Fraud

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The Church of Scientology in France will be tried in court for "organised fraud", according to legal sources. From the BBC
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