Scandalous Crypto Capers: Debiex’s $2.5M Romance Ruse Exposed! 💔💰

It is with no small measure of astonishment that one learns of the recent decree issued against the crypto platform known as Debiex, which has been commanded to part with a sum approximating $2.5 million. This unfortunate circumstance arose from its utter failure to respond to a suit brought forth by the esteemed US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which has accused the platform of engaging in a most dubious romance scam. How utterly charming! 😏

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Furthermore, the CFTC has accused one Zhāng Chéng Yáng of playing the role of a “money mule” for Debiex, whose crypto wallets were employed to accept and abscond with the funds of the victims. A most unsavoury character indeed! 😒

On the twelfth of March, Judge Rayes did grant a motion for default judgment against the aforementioned Zhāng, finding that he had control over a crypto wallet with OKX, which had received digital assets to which he had no legitimate claim. How delightful it must be to possess such ill-gotten gains! 💸

It was noted that OKX was “voluntarily preserving” the crypto in Zhāng’s account, and the judge ordered that its contents, consisting of a mere $5.70 worth of Tether (USDT) and nearly 63 Ether (ETH) valued at approximately $119,500, be transferred to an unnamed victim. A rather paltry sum for such grand deception! 😅

The CFTC’s complaint from January 2024 revealed that Debiex’s shadowy managers had targeted potential victims through social media, luring them to websites that proclaimed themselves as a “Blockchain Network Decentralized perpetual contract trading platform,” where users could engage in futures trading and “Mining transactions.” Such lofty claims! 🤑

Debiex’s staff, presenting themselves as fair maidens, endeavoured to build a rapport with their victims through incessant messaging and the sharing of purported images of themselves, all while claiming to be “highly successful digital asset commodities traders.” How very enterprising! 😏

Once an account was established and the customers had entrusted their crypto to Debiex, the CFTC reported that the platform would share “fictitious information” regarding customer balances, trading positions, and profits. Alas, all of this information was most likely false! The evidence suggests that the customers’ digital assets were simply dispatched to numerous digital asset wallets, in a rather clever attempt to obfuscate their true destination. How cunning! 🕵️‍♀️

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2025-03-17 05:28