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From the video: "The phone calls that cost one man $230 million"
The SEE Crew: $263M Stolen on Discord
They met online gaming. They stole $263M. They spent it on Lamborghinis and $500K nightclub tabs. Now they're going to prison one by one.
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From the video: "A shareholder sued the President over crypto"
Donald Trump: Sued by a Circle Shareholder Over $2.5B in UAE Crypto Deals
A Circle shareholder says $2.5B in UAE deals with the Trump family's crypto firm broke the Constitution. The White House calls the suit frivolous.
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From the video: "$16 million moved. The CEO said: rumours"
CoinDCX: 'Don't Spread Rumours,' Then $16M of 'Operational Losses'
CoinDCX's CEO called reports of a $16M outflow rumours. Hours later the exchange admitted 'operational losses'. Investigators dispute its account.
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From the video: "None of these winning bets were real"
Polymarket: Its Ads Showed $1.9M of Winning Bets. None Were Real
The WSJ found $1.9M of fake wins in Polymarket's paid videos. Its marketing chief is out, the NY Post reports, and the CEO repaid jet and rent costs.
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From the video: "$1 billion in. $26 million traded"
NovaTech: The $1 Billion Crypto Scheme That Spread Through Prayer Groups
Over $1B went into NovaTech and under $26M was ever traded. New York settled with four promoters for $5.98M; the founders have not been located.
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From the video: "They're suing the makers of their safe"
Coldcard: Victims Sue Its Makers, Saying They Were Warned in May 2025
A proposed class action in Toronto says Coldcard's makers were told of the flaw in May 2025, 14 months before thieves emptied thousands of wallets.
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From the video: "34 men vanished. Then the suspect did"
Atong Ang: Wanted Over 34 Missing Men. A Minister Claims $3B in Crypto
Atong Ang is wanted over 34 men who vanished from Philippine cockfighting, and denies it. A minister says he fled with $3B in crypto. No proof is public.
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From the video: "His bitcoin fortune went to the dump"
Clifton Collins: $41.5M of the Lost 'Fishing Rod' Bitcoin Just Moved to Coinbase Prime
The keys to Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins's 6,000 bitcoin vanished in a fishing rod case. Now 500 more BTC ($41.5M) have moved to Coinbase Prime.
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From the video: "She vanished with billions. The FBI still wants her."
Ruja Ignatova: The Cryptoqueen
She sold OneCoin, a crypto with no blockchain, for billions, then boarded a flight to Athens in 2017 and vanished. Nine years on, the hunt continues.
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From the video: "$40 billion gone in a week"
Do Kwon: The $40 Billion Vaporizer
Terra's founder ran, was caught with a forged passport, pleaded guilty in New York and got 15 years. South Korea still wants to try him.
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From the video: "Two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin"
Bitcoin Pizza Day: 10,000 BTC for Two Pizzas
In May 2010 a Florida programmer paid 10,000 bitcoin, then worth about $41, for two pizzas. The same coins later passed $1 billion.
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From the video: ""FTX is fine. Assets are fine.""
Sam Bankman-Fried: The $8 Billion Fraud
FTX's founder took $8 billion of customer money and got 25 years. His appeal failed in June 2026; he is now asking the Supreme Court and Trump.
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From the video: "South Korea's 'Coin King': acquitted"
Jonber Kim: Seoul Court Acquits 'Coin King' in $240M Crypto Fraud Case
Prosecutors sought 20 years over 340bn won (~$240M) in two coins. A Seoul court found buyers were misled, but no proof that is why they bought.
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From the video: "20 years in prison. He wasn't there."
Daren Li: He Cut Off His Ankle Monitor, Then Got 20 Years for $73M
He admitted laundering $73.6M taken from Americans by Cambodian scam centres, cut off his ankle monitor and fled. The judge gave him 20 years anyway.
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From the video: "Its star was a well-known financial adviser. Or so everyone thought."
SEC: Fake 'AI Trading' WhatsApp Groups Took $15M With False Filings on Its Own Website
The SEC says Cryptoaiml and TSAI took $15M with fake AI trading signals and robots, then pointed victims to false filings on sec.gov.
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From the video: "Police went into a compound and found 117 people inside"
Ghana and Nigeria: 28 Arrested and 117 Trafficked Scam Workers Freed in a Global Crackdown
A London-hosted crackdown with the FBI, Meta and Coinbase led to 28 arrests and freed 117 people forced to run online scams in Ghana.
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From the video: "A deepfake Musk ad, a fake trading site, then the same gang called back"
Brooklyn: 241 Fake Crypto Sites Aimed at Russian Speakers Shut Down
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI seized 112 servers behind a crypto scam that took tens of millions from Russian speakers, then tried to rob them again.
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From the video: "$1.46 billion gone in one transfer its own staff approved"
Bybit: The $1.5 Billion Heist That Shook Crypto
North Korean hackers took about $1.5 billion of ether from Bybit in one approved transfer. Twenty months on, under 5% has come back.
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From the video: "He died on his honeymoon. Then C$180M of his customers' crypto couldn't be found"
Gerald Cotten: The QuadrigaCX CEO Who Died Holding the Only Keys to $190 Million
QuadrigaCX's founder died in India in 2018, and customers learned their money was gone. Regulators later called it fraud. Victims got back 13%.
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From the video: "The Squid Game coin you could buy but never sell"
Squid Game Token: The Token You Literally Could Not Sell
SQUID rose from about a cent to $2,861 in a week. Buyers could not sell, and on 1 November 2021 its creators vanished with about $3.4M.
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From the video: "An 83-year-old woman got a call: her grandson needed bail money"
Coinme: $2.5M Settlement With 34 Regulators Shuts Its Supermarket Crypto Kiosks
34 state regulators settled with Coinme for $2.5M over alleged anti-money-laundering failures. Its Coinstar crypto kiosks must go by 1 January 2027.
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From the video: "Someone made $10.7M of crypto out of thin air. Then it vanished"
Pirate Chain: A Bug Printed 39.8M ARRR, and the Coins Vanished Into the Privacy Pool
Eleven days after an upgrade, a bug let someone create 39.8M ARRR, a fifth of the supply. The coins went where nobody can follow them.
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From the video: "A 15-year-old's crypto wallet led police to 4 gangs and a $2.4B case"
Sharjah Police: 33 Accused in a $2.4B Crypto Laundering Case That Began With a Teenager's Wallet
Police in Sharjah say a 15-year-old's crypto wallet led them to four linked gangs, AED 8.8B in suspected laundering and a plot to kill a wallet owner.
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From the video: "A post on Floyd Mayweather's X account promoted a brand-new meme coin"
Floyd Mayweather: A $1.26M Meme Coin, Deleted Posts and a 97% Fall in Four Hours
Posts on Floyd Mayweather's accounts promoted a token on the Fomo app. It hit $1.26M, lost 97% within four hours, and a promoter says it was planned.
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From the video: "Someone printed 10 million tokens out of nothing"
Cysic: A Hacker Got Into the Bridge's Database, Printed 10M Tokens and Took $727,000
An attacker broke into a database behind Cysic's bridge, printed 10 million CYS tokens and sold enough to move about $727,000 out in 76 minutes.
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From the video: "No password was stolen. So how did a thief empty 1,404 crypto wallets?"
Qubic: A Wallet Flaw on Apple Devices Let a Thief Empty 1,404 Accounts
A thief emptied 1,404 Qubic wallets of 2.94 trillion QU, about $1.3M to $1.4M, through badly made recovery codes. The network was then switched off.
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From the video: "They broke in to take his crypto. His teenage sister stopped them"
Bristol: Three Men Jailed for 16.5 Years After a Crypto Home Invasion Foiled by a Teenage Girl
Three men broke into a Bristol home, hit a man over the head and demanded his crypto. His teenage sister alerted police. They got nothing, and now prison.
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