Over $50 Million Lost in South African Bitcoin Scam
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Over $50 Million Lost in South African Bitcoin Scam

THELOGICALINDIAN - Roughly 27500 cryptocurrency investors from South Africa Australia and the US accept been bamboozled by a largescale Bitcoin betray with appear losses upwards of 50 million

The Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation agent Captain Lloyd Ramovha accepted bygone that investigations accept been launched adjoin BTC Global afterwards letters of all-embracing artifice accept appear calamity in.

BTC Global has allegedly fabricated off with over $50 actor in Bitcoin transferred into an online wallet address. Confirmed Captain Ramovha to TimesLIVE:

Whether or not the declared wrongdoers are South African charcoal unconfirmed. Commented Captain Ramovha:

Cryptocurrencies to alter South African money?

Multiple victims appear to TimesLIVE that they had invested with BTC Global’s “master trader” activity by the name of Steve Twain. Weekly payouts were exceptional until Twain went off the alarm two weeks ago — arch investors to accept the alone never absolutely existed.

Outrage over the abeyant Ponzi arrangement has led to afterlife threats adjoin a Johannesburg woman believed to be at the centermost of the scam. She has back pressed bent charges adjoin a man who threatened her at her home.

BTC Global has back abeyant its services, announcement the afterward notice on its website:

They accept additionally pleaded for those austere by the declared betray to abide calm and acquaintance the adapted acknowledged channels, writing:

Finally, BTC Global has declared that “Until Steven Twain resurfaces or is begin there is annihilation the admin aggregation can do.”

Don’t authority your breath.

Are you afraid to apprentice that Steven Twain has allegedly fabricated off with $50 million? Do you anticipate Twain anytime absolutely existed? Do you anticipate investors should’ve accepted bigger than no put their Bitcoin into what appears to be an accessible scheme? Let us apperceive in the comments below!

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