Prosecutors Charge 'Discount Bitcoin Bandits' With Robbery

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The la County District Attorney's workplace has charged 2 people with a theft when they scarf nearly $90,000 during a bitcoin fraud theme.

Prosecutors alleged weekday that the "Discount Bitcoin Bandits" promoted advertisements concerning commerce bitcoin at discounted rates on-line, however did not deliver the coins once paid throughout one such sale. The duo, Precious Fitzgerald and Lawillie Hall, face years in jail if guilty on second-degree theft charges.

The pair additionally allegedly robbed potential patrons at muzzle once meeting up to finish the sales method. Fitzgerald was in addition charged with 3 counts of kid abuse - associate degree child was allegedly gift throughout a number of the robberies - and 2 counts of thieving.

"In one instance, Fitzgerald is defendant of receiving a cash transfer from a victim however ne'er providing the secure bitcoin," the District Attorney's workplace aforementioned. "In alternative instances, she allegedly met the victims head to head and forcefully took the money they'd dropped at purchase the bitcoins."

The cryptocurrency scheme has seen variety of comparable robberies that happen throughout in-person sales conferences, together with an interesting case from last year that concerned the thievery of $1.8 million in ether.

Earlier this month, 2 brokers in Singapore were robbed of nearly $300,000 in money throughout a meet-up. A suspect was later in remission and charged with theft in reference to the incident.

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