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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A staggering $12 million in cryptocurrency was scammed away from Surrey residents last year. In 2023, Surrey RCMP received more than 220 reports of fraud involving cryptocurrency, with the vast majority related to investment scams. So far this year through January and …

The Nova Scotia Securities Commission, along with Halifax Regional Police and the RCMP, have issued a warning to be vigilant when investing in cryptocurrency “as residents continue to lose substantial amounts of money to crypto-related scams.” “The commission previously issued crypto warnings in January and March. Since then, Nova Scotians …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A victim in a cryptocurrency scam who invested $400,000 was faced with multiple excuses and told to pay large fees when attempting to withdraw the funds, Toronto police say. In a news release issued Tuesday, police said officers were able to recover …

Make no mistake, the headliner brought the crowd out on this crisp winter day at Toronto’s historic Opera House. Even acts two and three on the four-band bill are fairly well known. It’s the first act that’s a bit of a wild card — not quite a name, but generating …

Just like that 2022 is drawing to a close. And what a year it has been. This year, like few others, saw the lifting of widespread COVID-19 restrictions and masking in many regions, along with unprecedented challenges to the global order and international law from actors like Vladimir Putin’s Russia …

“ Dukaan jama raha tha, aap log aake berozgar kar diya” , went one meme when the FM made her announcement on taxing digital assets. ( I was just setting up shop, now you have made me unemployed) As soon as the 30 per cent taxation announcement was made, NFT enthusiasts and crypto investors …

Facebook’s former product manager turned whistleblower Frances Haugen has revealed that her refuge in Puerto Rico is “fine for the foreseeable future” because of a well-timed investment in cryptocurrency. The whistleblower who’s made headlines recently for calling out Facebook’s “betrayal of democracy”, made her crypto investment known in an interview …

Walmart Inc said on Monday that a press release regarding the retailer`s partnership with cryptocurrency litecoin was fake. A spokesperson for the company told Reuters that the release “was not real”. Litecoin did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment. The fake statement said Walmart would allow its customers …

Alexander Osipovich / Wall Street Journal: FTC: consumers have reported losing nearly $82M to crypto scams during Q4 2020 and Q1 2021, up more than 10x YoY  —  FTC says consumers have reported losing more than $80 million to crypto-investment scams since October  —  Scams are running rampant in the …

Solana isn’t widely known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years as an engineer working on wireless protocols at Qualcomm and who says …