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Cryptocurrency: The new playground for scammers
Cryptocurrencies: the new playground for scammers – (France 2)
Online scams are on the rise, but one of them specifically targets young people. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies offer attractive offers, fueling hopes of making easy money. But they open the door to scams.
Getting rich with less effort is a promise held out by some advertisements for cryptocurrency, digital money. But some investments turn out to be scams. A man who wished to remain anonymous invested more than 10,000 euros in a company, hoping to make three times that amount. Six months later the site and its money disappeared. With 150 victims, he decided to file a complaint.
In France and around the world, this type of scam is on the rise, especially thanks to social networks. Scammers offer paid online training courses to master and operate the Ponzi pyramid, an illegal scam. According to lawyer Alexandre Dakos, the risk lies in the ignorance of cryptocurrencies. “This fictional cryptocurrency is just a shell”The expert assures.
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