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A Cryptocurrency Trader Has Been Sentenced To 42 Months In Prison For A Massive Crypto Fraud

Nathan Ferguson May 17, 2022 3 min read

A trader of cryptocurrency who did a scam with 170 persons was sentenced by the court to go to jail for 42 months on Wednesday for promising to provide substantial crypto returns for the depositors’ funds however they were being deprived of their funds and rather were trapped in a Ponzi scheme.

The DOJ (Department of Justice) of the United States stated that Jeremy Spence, a 25-year-old male had collected several million through wrong representations, taking into account that the crypto trading of Spence had been thoroughly advantageous when the trading of Spence had been persistently disadvantageous. Spence, the person who ran the social media-based channels related to Coin Signals (his scheme of crypto investment), was sentenced on the behalf of Lewis Kaplan (a United States District Judge for New York’s Southern District.


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Spence was additionally provided with the judgment of three years in supervised discharge along with the recompensing of an amount of up to $2.8M to his victims. It was January of the previous year when Spence got arrested by the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). Other civil charges were specified by the CFTC (Commodity Futures Trading Commission).

The fraudster was found guilty of doing a commodities fraud in 2021’s November for gathering nearly $5M from the innocent crypto investors just by making several crypto funds between 2017’s November and 2019’s April, which were wrongly asserted by him to be making significant gains nonetheless were going through losses. One instance given on the behalf of the DOJ mentioned that Spence shared a message in a chat group online that up to 148% returns were made by one of his funds that month.

As Law360 put it, Judge Kaplan (the person who was presiding over the respective lawsuit) spoke that he was shocked to know that the people were not aware of such scams which led them to invest in Spence’s funds as they did not consider the outcomes of their nonsensical move. Attempting to get profits, investors provided funds to Spence to be invested to make profits, nevertheless, no profits were made by the funds.

To cover all this up, Spence presented feigned account balances to conceal the losses. The Ponzi scheme was initiated by the scammer by utilizing funds of the latest investors for the payment of the former investors, with approximations that up to $2M worth of crypto got disseminated in this way.

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