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The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has warned of 17 suspected crypto scams in 16 separate notifications published on December 27 and 28.
- RB Hood,
- Reliable Option Trade,
- Rui Win Capital Group,
- SIMEX,
- Sun Bit Proa,
- Tahoe Digital Exchange,
- TeleTrade Options,
- Tony Alin Trading Firm,
- Hekamenltd,
- Tosal Markets Limited,
- Trade 1960,
- Yong Ying Global Investment Company Limited,
- Unison FX,
- VoyanX.com,
- ZC Exchange
- eth-Wintermute.net
- UniSwap LLC.
The California regulator stated that these companies “appear to be engaged in fraud against California consumers”. As an example of these crypto schemes, we transcribe DFPI’s warning of RB Hood below:
“The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) has received a complaint from at least one California resident regarding a crypto investment.
The victim met a woman calling herself “Jiang Yingying” on social media and they communicated on WhatsApp, Telegram, and through text messaging. At some point, Jiang convinced him to open a crypto account, so he transferred $500 from his debit card, then transferred the cryptocurrency to a Chinese exchange at first called rbhoodc.com, but later it changed its name to rbhoodz.com, then changed again to rbhoodd.xyz. The…
