California DFPI emite uma ordem de cessar e desistir contra empresas cripto com executivos falsos
- The California DFPI issued a cease-and-desist order against five crypto firms “to stop fraudulent investment schemes tied to artificial intelligence (AI).”
- As entidades incluem Harvest Keeper, Visque Capital, Coinbot e QuantFund, juntamente com Maxpread Technologies e seu CEO, Jan Gregory Cerato.
- Scammers are taking advantage of the recent buzz around artificial intelligence to entice investors into bogus schemes,” said the DFPI Commissioner.
- As empresas usaram atores e IA para criar executivos falsos para suas empresas e fizeram de tudo para garantir que suas empresas parecessem legítimas.
Following the 2021 crypto market bull run, the number of crypto companies with sky-high valuations skyrocketed, but not every company was aimed at innovation, and investors found the same the hard way. Many companies had anonymous founders who had pseudonyms and could only be contacted via the social media platform Twitter. Interestingly, the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) issued a cease and desist against five crypto firms “to stop fraudulent investment schemes tied to artificial intelligence (AI).”
De acordo com o funcionário anúncio do regulador da Califórnia, muitas empresas de criptografia fizeram uso de atores e inteligência artificial para criar CEOs e outros executivos e cometer crimes e fraudes financeiras, enganando os investidores com seu dinheiro arduamente ganho.
“Today’s enforcement actions continue the DFPI’s crack down on investor fraud. Scammers are taking advantage of the recent buzz around artificial intelligence to entice investors into bogus schemes,” said DFPI Commissioner Clothilde Hewlett. “We will continue our efforts to protect California consumers and investors by going after these unscrupulous actors.”
As cinco empresas criptográficas nomeadas na carta de cessar e desistir incluem Harvest Keeper, Visque Capital, Coinbot e QuantFund, juntamente com a Maxpread Technologies e seu CEO, Jan Gregory Cerato.
The California regulator said that Maxpread Technologies offered unqualified securities and “made misrepresentations and omissions to prospective investors.” The firm used AI to fake its CEO’s existence and promised daily investor returns of at least 0.6% but was actually running a Ponzi scheme, paying former inventors with the money of the latter.
Harvest Keeper and Visque Capital both promised investors returns of 4.81% and 2%, respectively, and offered unqualified securities. Visque Capital had “falsely represented that it was owned and operated by another company that had no affiliation with the entity.” Additionally, Coinbot ran a similar Ponzi scheme as that of Maxpread Technologies and promised investors daily returns of at least 1.5%.
Lastly, the California DPFI claims that QuantFund “falsely represented that it created an insurance fund to prevent any investor losses” and promised returns of at least 1%.
“Taking advantage of the hype around AI, these entities claimed to use AI to conduct the purported crypto trading. The pitch was simple: investors were told that if they invested funds, these entities would use their knowledge, skill, experience, and AI to trade crypto assets and generate incredible profits for investors. In each case, these claims are false,” said the California regulator.
It is important to note that the entities went to great lengths to appear to investors that they were legitimate businesses. They created “professional websites, maintained social media accounts, and were promoted on social media by influencers and investors who shared stories of the money they were supposedly making,” said the DFPI.
The California regulator noted that these companies appeared to be operating normally for a few months to years, and investors could see their account balance growing. In the initial days, investors’ withdrawals were instantly credited to their accounts.
The DFPI noted in the press that sometime later, “the scheme stops processing withdrawals and then the website goes dark, leaving investors without a way to access their funds. By then it’s too late, and the scammers have disappeared with investors’ money.”
Conforme relatado anteriormente pela Bitnation, o DFPI alertou investidores contra 17 sites cripto, afirmando que estes estão associados a atividades fraudulentas. Algumas delas foram Tahoe Digital Exchange, TeleTrade Options, Tony Alin Trading Firm, Trade 1960, VoyanX.com e ZC Exchange.
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
