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密码保护:Bitconned Is a Cryptocurrency Cautionary Tale 2024.1.1 ☑Press ☑U.S.,美国
Inexperienced co-founders, a non-existent product, and a mysterious CEO who seems to be MIA — what could possibly go wrong? Bitconned, the new documentary from director Bryan Storkel (The Pez Outlaw), goesinside the cryptocurrency craze of the late 2010s and unravels the story of Centra Tech, a crypto company dreamt up by a couple of South Florida hustlers with a knack for Photoshop and a penchant for living large.
“Crypto [was] just this new unfound territory, completely unregulated by the SEC,” explains Centra co-founder Ray Trapani in the doc. “Anytime you find a market like that, you just have to figure out how to exploit [it].”
Trapani and his cohorts managed to successfully do just that for a time, raising millions of unregulated fundraising dollars along the way. But when a New York Times reporter — and eventually, the authorities — dared to start asking questions, Centra’s web of lies unraveled. Using original interviews with Trapani, his family, and his co-conspirators, as well as a victim who poured money into Centra and the investigators who eventually brought the company’s malfeasance to light, Bitconned shines a light on just how easy it can be to create the illusion of a legitimate enterprise. After all, what is a scam if not an entrepreneurial venture situated firmly on the wrong side of the law?
➤Bitconned是一个加密货币的警示故事
继2022年的《别信任何人:虚拟货币悬案》之后,Netflix 2日又推出了一部有关加密货币诈骗案的纪录片《加密货币大骗局》(Bitconned)。该片深入探讨了2017年ICO(首次代币发行)热潮背后的故事,揭露了「假签帐卡公司」Centra Tech如何诈骗超过2,500万美元。
纪录片特别聚焦于共同创办人Ray Trapani的特殊性格,展示他如何偷取客户的虚拟货币帐户资金,甚至对被害者进行嘲讽。
Netflix介绍,《加密货币大骗局》主要通过对Centra Tech成员和《纽约时报》记者的采访,追溯了该公司从2017年创立到事迹败露的整个过程。 -
密码保护:ACE王牌交易所潘奕彰勾結詐團7人收押 2024.1.5 ☑Press ☑Taiwan,台灣,台湾
遭檢察官依加重詐欺等罪嫌聲押的7人是潘奕彰、林耿宏、林若蕎,以及犯罪集團幹部林耿宏的胞弟林耿漢、林敬智、張爾杰、林婉榆。
➤检警调日前发动搜索约谈,同时将潘奕彰、林耿宏、林若荞等共犯14人拘提到案,经检察官讯问后,认为14人涉犯《刑法》加重诈欺等罪,将潘奕彰等7人声押禁见,台北地院下午开羁庭,裁准7人羁押禁见。
被收押的7人除了潘奕彰外,还包括集团首脑林耿宏与成员林若荞、林耿汉、林婉榆、林敬智、张尔杰等6人。
3年多前,自称「系统之神」并在康霖生活事业有限公司担任总顾问的林耿宏,带领自称理财高手的林若荞直销下线成员所组成的「千荞团队」,对外推销虚拟货币IBCOIN、UNICOIN,并以集团有内线可以炒作,还有基金会挹注投资,前景可期,集团年轻成员还在脸书炫富,PO出与超跑的合影,以此吸金2.5亿,最后集团成员被北检起诉后,法院日前依加重诈欺罪判处林若荞应执行8年徒刑,至于林耿宏因传拘无着被台北地院通缉。
没想到在通缉期间,林耿宏再度找上老搭档林若荞,并与台湾知名的ACE王牌交易所创办人潘奕彰合谋,共组诈欺集团,并透过IG等网络社群软件发送信息,以传销话术诱使被害人投资MOCT(魔券币)、NFTC、BNAT等虚拟货币,宣称这些虚拟货币将会在国内外知名交易所上市,届时可迅速致富,等到被害人发现币价直线掉落无法流通变现,才知道遭到诈骗。