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 people across the globe ... (full story)