Japanese police arrested 12 people for buying bitcoins for counterfeit money
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early In the week, gangsters in Taiwan in miner, who was unable to provide sufficient profitability of their investment in mining of Bitcoin. The man received seven bullet wounds, and arrested the criminals. Now the Japanese police can be crooks who tried to buy bitcoins for counterfeit money.
theWhy you should not buy bitcoins with cash
According to investigators, the scammers invited the Executive Director of one of the local companies to sell their bitcoins in the amount of $ 1.7 million (200 million yen). He agreed and after getting cash through an agent, transferred a bitcoin to the account of criminals. A few days later the man discovered the bills were fake and called the police.
In a criminal group consisted of 12 people. All, except for the head named kentauros Yagihashi, was about 20 years old. April 10, police detained seven people, after a week another five people. They all refused to plead guilty.
As noted by Cointelegraph, the victim agreed to the deal for cash, because they did not want to pay a fee for the transfer of cryptocurrency.
last week, two crooks on a man who was going to buy their bitcoin for cash. Both stories indicate that to buy or sell coins for cash is very risky.
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