Re:'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list...
by EliRivers on Saturday July 02, 2022 @04:25AM
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This was simply an explicit (although obviously not explicit enough to the people taken advantage of) scam from the start. There was no cryptocoin. No blockchain. There was just giving money to her and her associates.
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Re:'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list...
by markdown on Saturday July 02, 2022 @05:58AM
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> There was no cryptocoin. No blockchain. There was just giving money to her and her associates.
So why is she called "Cyryptoqueen"?
Re:'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list...
by barrbid8 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @06:28AM
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Because they claimed one coin was the new Bitcoin and that she and her associates took billions for “crypto”
Re:'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list...
by trompetenaccoun on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:41AM
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Yes, good question and this is exactly why there are so many scams. There's such a hype that one can simply add crypto lingo to anything and people will buy into it. Not even the media bothers, once someone proclaims to be associated with "crypto" that's what they're labeled at.
Re:'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova added to FBI most-wanted list...
by WHA8m on Saturday July 02, 2022 @07:51AM
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It's quite common that crypto currencies have an almost religious following nowadays, but she was one of the first. Where bitcoin was propagated by tech savvy people, One Coin collected money from average Joes. They took the term 'crypto-queen' to the 'real-world'.