Six charged over a Madagascar operation that used fake dating profiles of beautiful women to steal cryptocurrency.

US prosecutors are extending their campaign against international cryptocurrency fraud to Africa and Europe as criminal organisations move their operations beyond Southeast Asia, where police raids have disrupted the sprawling scam centres responsible for stealing billions of dollars from unsuspecting investors. Announcing the expansion yesterday (27 October), US Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Ferris Pirro said the Justice Department’s Scam Center Strike Force had frozen more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency, seized 700 fraudulent investment websites and helped disrupt millions of online scam…