In South Africa revealed a pyramid scheme on 28 thousand investors and $ 80 million
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In early April, the Central Bank of the Republic of South Africa to create a self-regulating organization in the market of cryptocurrencies. Manual regulator believes that the state should not establish rules of the trade digital assets. While cryptomeria can't deal with unscrupulous market players, the South African police have discovered a pyramid scheme. The organizers stole $ 80 million from 28 investors. About it writes .
How to distinguish a pyramid scheme from ICO
we are talking about the BTC project Global, the organizer of which, according to the investigation, was the company BitCaw. BTC Global has used the classic Ponzi scheme — promising investors 2 percent of the Deposit amount per day or 50 percent a month, the organization tried to convince depositors to keep their tokens as long as possible.
Payments to investors were made every Monday. However, at the end of may they suddenly stopped — and investors within a few days can not contact with project managers and take their money.
the Representative BitCaw in conversation with the newspaper, said that the company has nothing to do with BTC Global. The latter explained the cessation of payments fraud on the part of the administrator who ran off with the money of depositors.
We are as shocked and angry as all of you. But we all knew about the risks associated with the work of our administrator Stephen TWAIN. And we financed it independently. We have been unable to find it, we can't return the depositors money.
the Head of the police of Africa the hawks Jolis of Matamata called on all investors in the project to contact the police to ensure that the government was able to estimate the real volume of stolen funds.
we have Set the amount of funds that was stolen from the organizers of the pyramid, it may be only the tip of the iceberg. We want to understand the real scale of the problem.
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