👉FTC shuts down the 'Bitcoin Funding Team' for promoting deceptive moneymaking scheme || Bitcoin 🌎
The Federal Trade Commission cleans up multiple online money making schemes involving cryptocurrency Friday.
A court in Florida, at the request of the Federal Trade Commission, halted activities and froze the assets of 4 men for allegedly promoting "deceptive" chain referral networks.
Three of the defendants, Thomas Dluca, gladiator Gatto and Eric Pinkston were suspected of exploitation YouTube, social media and different websites to win over folks they might take $100 and switch it into $80,000 in monthly financial gain through the "Bit Coin Funding Team" and "My7Network," the Federal Trade Commission same.
"The schemes the defendants promoted were designed to complement those at the highest at the expense of everybody else," Tom Pahl, acting director of the FTC's Bureau of client Protection same in a very statement. "This case shows that scammers continually realize new ways that to plug recent schemes, that is why the Federal Trade Commission can stay wakeful despite the platform — or currency used."
Participants were asked to pay in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and litecoin and will solely create a profit by recruiting new folks, the Federal Trade Commission criticism same. Most, however, allegedly didn't recover the initial investment, in step with the agency.
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