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Recently, the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), the US government agency responsible for taxes and duties, has published a report on the top 10 scams of the year, and of these, 4 come from the crypto world. The IRS’s crypto scams of 2023 The worst of the four is OneCoin, a well-known crypto scam for many years now. It has been ranked as the third most mentioned by the IRS after a biodiesel scam and tax evasion. Just after OneCoin, in fourth place overall, we have Ian Freeman, who helped launder $10 million in proceeds from various online scams by exchanging dollars for Bitcoin. At the seventh place there is the Silk Road hacker, James Zhong, who stole 50,000 BTC. At the eighth place, there is the scam of the cryptocurrency Oyster Pearl, launched by Amir Bruno Elmaani in 2017.  Therefore, these are neither new scams nor scams related to crimes committed in 2023. The ranking, in fact, takes into account the sentences of conviction issued in 2023, which obviously refer to previous events.  Furthermore, it must be said that out of the four crypto scams, only two are actual scams, because Freeman’s case is instead a money laundering offense, and Zhong’s case is a theft. Moreover, even the second one, that of Mark Anthony Gyetvay, is not a real scam against third parties, but a simple case of tax evasion against the State.  To tell the truth, even the first one, the biodiesel one, is at the expense of the State, so the biggest scam against the citizens for which convictions were issued in the USA in 2023 remains OneCoin.  The OneCoin mega-scam The IRS mentions the 20-year prison sentence imposed on Karl Sebastian Greenwood, a Swedish and British citizen, and co-founder of OneCoin along with fugitive Ruja Ignatova.  Greenwood…

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Filed under: News - @ December 14, 2023 12:14 am