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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed civil cases against virtual currency operators CabbageTech, Entrepreneurs Headquarters Ltd., and My Big Coin Pay Inc. The regulator is alleging欺诈罪，挪用，misrepresentation, and other unregistered securities allegations. It wants disgorgement, fines, restitution, injunctions, and other remedies.

在反对Cabbagetech的情况下，作为硬币掉落市场开展业务，其所有者Patrick K. McDonnell，被告被指控参加虚拟货币骗局，以征集投资者的资金和虚拟货币，据推测是为了交换实时交易建议和the sale and trading of virtual currency under McDonnell’s guidance.

Instead, claims the CFTC, investors received no such advice and they never saw their money again because McDonnell and CabbageTech misappropriated their funds. The regulator believes that the defendants sought to hide their scam by eliminating their online and social media presence and ending communications with customers.

CFTC针对麦克唐纳的民事诉讼及其公司在同一天宣布与企业家总部有限公司的案件，该公司是在英国注册的公司，以及创始人狄龙·迈克尔·迪恩（Dillon Michael Dean）。监管机构认为，从2017年4月开始，被告从600多名投资者那里征集了至少110万美元的比特币，并承诺将比特币转变为法定货币，并投资于合并的投资工具以贸易商品利息。

Prospective participants were promised high return rates and that their investments would be handled by individuals who were experts at trading. Solicitation for funds occurred through YouTube, Facebook posts, and company websites.

Now, Dean and The Entrepreneurs Headquarters are accused of misappropriating over $1M in customer money. Meantime, Dean reportedly has set up another trading venture named Real Trade Profits. Once again, a website is being used to solicit Bitcoin to be used in a pooled investment, this one involving binary options trading. High return rates have been promised.

在监管机构反对我的大硬币工资的案件中，CFTC指控涉及虚拟货币的600万美元商品欺诈称为我的大硬币。其他被告是Randall Crater和Mark Gillespie，他们都被指控将投资者的钱用于自己的巨额费用。

In a joint statement, CFTC Enforcement Director James McDonald and SEC Enforcement Directors Steven Peikin and Stephanie Avakian said that digital instruments, including virtual currencies, tokens, and coins are not immune from prosecution for violations of “federal securities and commodities laws.”

Massachusetts Accuses Cayman Island Company of Selling Unregistered Securities

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Caviar, which has an initial coin offering going on, has reportedly raised more than $3M. The tokens tout quarterly dividends from an investment fund that combines real estate and cryptocurrencies. Now, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin is alleging that the sale of unregistered securities is taking place.

It was just recently that the Texas State Securities Board and the North Carolina Securities Division accused the company BitConnect of selling tokens that were unregistered securities. Bitcoin has since shut down its investment lending platform.

Meantime, investors are starting to demand their money back. Cryptocurrency startup Centra Tech is now the defendant in a class action investor fraud lawsuit. Centra Tech raised $32M in its ICO last year. Now, the plaintiffs are contending that the company and its senior executives sold unregistered securities and lied to investors about creating a cryptocurrency debit card. While Centra claims that it was working with Visa on the cards, a spokesperson for the credit card company said there was no such collaboration in place. Centra denies the investor fraud allegations.

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