'Swindled with bitcoin': Australian victims count cost of online finance scam

From theguardian.com

As a pensioner, Kate couldn’t afford to lose the $4,000 she ploughed into an alleged cryptocurrency scam run out of acall centre in Kiev. She couldn’t even really afford the initial US$250 she was convinced to invest in website CryptoMB by a man calling himself William Bradley. “I didn’t have $250 in the first place,” Kate, whose name has been changed, tells Guardian Australia. “So they said, ‘What have you got?’ “I said I’ve got $150, so they said, ‘Send it through.’” Acma announces new rules on porting mobile numbers to tackle identity fraud Read more Kate is just one of thousands of ... (full story)