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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued 17 individuals tied to an alleged Ponzi scheme that took in $300 million from over 40,000 victims.
The defendants, who targeted the Latino community in 10 U.S. states and two other countries, convinced investors that their funds would be invested in crypto and other assets, but weren't, theIn a statement, SEC Enforcement Director Gurbir Grewal said the scheme promised"life-altering wealth" to victims.
"The only thing that CryptoFX guaranteed was a trail of thousands upon thousands of victims stretching across 10 states and two foreign countries," he said."A scheme of that size requires lots of participants, and as today's action demonstrates, we will pursue charges against not just the principal architects of these massive schemes, but all those who further their fraud by unlawfully soliciting victims.
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