Law enforcement authorities in Italy and Albania have busted a suspected cryptocurrency investment scam that made off with 15 million euros ($16 million). By JamieCrawleyCD
Law enforcement authorities in Italy and Albania busted a suspected cryptocurrency investment scam estimated to have netted 15 million euros .
Assets worth 3 million euros were seized during the action by a joint investigation team, Eurojust, the European Union's cross-border agency for fighting organized crime,. More than 160 electronic devices were also seized, including computers, servers, digital video recorders and a cellphone. An organized crime group carried out the operation out of a call center in Tirana, Albania, Eurojust said. Victims were asked to create an account and transfer an initial sum, which showed an immediate financial gain. They were then contacted by the perpetrators posing as brokers"that proposed advantageous investments in cryptocurrencies with zero risk," though it's not clear that any crypto assets were purchased.
Victims were subsequently encouraged to make far larger investments, in some cases their entire economic capital, according to Eurojust. Once the larger deposits were made, the account details were changed and the victims locked out.
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