Dec. 27, 2024 By Lauren Rapp The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office has launched a groundbreaking effort to combat cryptocurrency scams targeting Brooklyn’s Russian-speaking community, alerting over 1,200 victims and disrupting a fraudulent network preying on unsuspecting investors. The DA’s office announced last week that investigators dismantled the operation by seizing the mail servers of…
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Brooklyn DA’s office busts million-dollar ‘pig butchering’ crypto scam operation
Apr. 4, 2024 By Isabel Song Beer
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Virtual Currency Unit has successfully dismantled and disrupted an online “pig butchering” operation that defrauded people across the country of millions of dollars.