⛓ Bitcoin fraudsters misled investors and impersonated regulators, CFTC alleges

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed charges against two defendants for allegedly going to a number of lengths in attempts to steal bitcoin ($BTC). The regulator announced late Friday that it was charging two individuals using the names Morgan Hunt and Kim Hecroft for "fraudulent solicitation, impersonation of a CFTC investigator and forging CFTC documents" as part of an elaborate scheme to convince cryptocurrency investors to pay a fake tax in bitcoin to the defendants.