The owner of Coin.mx was basically a Bond villain. Charged with orchestrating a major cybercriminal enterprise!

He's been captured now, and charged with everything a cybercriminal can do these days, like ransomwear, running a fake exchange, running a fake gambling site, and so much identity theft from big banks like JP Morgan that they're calling one of his jobs "the largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution in history."

Just one of his offshore accounts had $100 million USD in it, and they haven't found all the bitcoin yet.

http://bravenewcoin.com/news/coin-mx-owner-charged-with-orchestrating-cybercriminal-enterprise/


Comments


[11 Points] octomarvel:

Stereotype 1 unfulfilled - dude is not named Scorpio. =(

Stereotype 2 filled - a Jew was caught hiding money. =)


[2 Points] young_k:

I recall this exchange, they called it "Collectibles Club" or something, and tried to use that as a means to get around the law...sort of a strange concept.

A friend of mine used them a few times, and they had direct cash deposit, CC, I think even paypal. Didn't seem all that shady from first glance, but it appears looks can be deceiving....


[2 Points] None:

And these mother fuckers couldn't cut me a better deal on my btc?


[1 Points] blizade:

i used them all the time. it was so easy because they allowed you to use debit cards and they started you out with $750/weekly limit for instant coins. it was very useful, but they did charge high fees of course so i'm sure they were banking hard.


[1 Points] clevernamehere1328:

You cannot make this shit up...someone call Daniel Craig, he cant retire from MI6 just yet.


[1 Points] None:

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