Bitcoin Fraudsters Impersonated U.S. Regulators, Forged CFTC Documents

[MaluWang]

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed charges against two cryptocurrency fraudsters who impersonated U.S. regulators and forged documents as part of a scheme to steal bitcoin from retail investors.

According to a complaint filed last Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the defendant(s) — operating under the names Morgan Hunt and Kim Hecroft — misappropriated cryptocurrency funds from customers who thought they were investing in bitcoin investment products. Hunt, purportedly from Arlington, TX, ran a business called Diamonds Trading Investment House, while Hecroft, supposedly from Baltimore, operated the business First Options Trading. The CFTC says that Hunt and Hecroft were either working together or that these names are aliases for the same person.

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