Coinbase's investigators joined the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force and the UK's NCA in a four-day London operation against West African scam networks. Coinbase's post did not include a freeze total for the week, so the case for routine cooperation rests on timing.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 10%
- Operator
- Operator 51%
- Investor
- Investor 39%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence60
Japanese police arrest a staffing company president accused of turning scam money into crypto for a 1% cut
Japanese police arrested six people, including a staffing firm's president, over alleged crypto laundering of about 91 million yen of scam money. Police allege the firm took about 1% to convert victims' money, so the case is built on the conversion service.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+15
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- Confidence55
The two sides will run parallel investigations and settle between themselves who charges whom. The last multi-country operation of this kind froze $3.8 million, most of it by one exchange's compliance desk.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives55
- Confidence65
Ukraine votes to make working in a scam call center a seven-to-twelve-year crime
The bill was introduced in 2023 and passed on Wednesday, a week after anti-corruption investigators accused officials in the Prosecutor General's Office of taking bribes to shield call centers from police. It awaits Zelensky's signature.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives68
- Confidence58
NABU says investment-fraud call centers bought protection from inside the Prosecutor General's Office. The deputy arrested for it ran the department that handles requests from foreign prosecutors.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
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- Builder 15%
- Operator
- Operator 67%
- Investor
- Investor 18%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives65
- Confidence60