The value of digital wallet thefts marks a historical record
The amount of illegal cryptocurrency-related activities, ranging from ransom demands to payments to evade sanctions against Russia to financing terrorist activities, set a new record in 2022: $20.6 billion, according to the latest available data compiled. by Chainanalysis. consulting Cryptocrime Report 2023. It is true that these are small percentages of the total transactions, although their weight has doubled: it has gone from 0.12% in 2021 to 0.24% in 2022. Within this figure, the illegal theft of money in crypto assets deposited in digital wallets also marked a historical record in 2022. We are talking about an amount of 3.8 billion dollars, savings of citizens that have vanished. Attracted by the claim of high returns from cryptocurrencies, many users have entrusted their money to the wrong people. Or better yet, the wrong platforms. And they have not been able to recover it. If the memory of the collapse of the FTX platform in the US is still fresh in the markets, there is no need to go that far.In Spain we have the case of Arbistar, which is on track to be, pending the end of the trial, the largest pyramid scam involving cryptocurrencies in Spanish crime. On June 26, the National Court agreed to the imprisonment of the Job Function Email Database ringleader of the plot, Santiago Fuentes. To date, more than 5,000 people have reported the incidents. In the indictment presented by the Aránguez Abogados firm (representing 3,400 victims), a sentence of 29 years and nine months in prison is requested for the continued crime of aggravated fraud, document falsification and criminal organization. Illicit cryptocurrency activities are a small percentage, but in two years they have doubled Arbistar promoted itself from its website as a company specialized in cryptocurrency trading on the Internet, offering a service that "never fails", supposedly designed to "always win", offering very high returns (between 8% and 15%). The owner, Santiago Fuentes, promoted on video channels and conferences the virtues of an arbitration system that, for practical purposes, was nonexistent.
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I don't think we are facing a regulatory problem. It is a scam and a fraud that could have occurred with any online entity,” explains lawyer José Miguel Taracena, from the aforementioned firm. The National Court accuses Arbistar of "selling smoke" to its clients Arbistar scammers took advantage of the fact that the market (we are talking about the year 2019) was still in its infancy and that many did not dominate it. “The objective was to attract people by offering products or services that promised large and rapid economic gains with cryptocurrencies,” explain sources from Aránguez Abogados. With that fresh money that came in, a return was assigned to those who had already contributed theirs, but without new capital being generated during that time: it simply passed from one user to another. “The business, then, is no longer that it lacked economic rationality, but that it did not exist, it was a mere simulation,” describes the judge of the National Court José Luis Calama.
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