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A History of Digital Currency in the United StatesOSGold

A History of Digital Currency in the United States: OSGold [The years 2001–2004 was a prosperous period of growth for new digital currency systems. This increase also produced millions of new unsuspecting victims who became targets of online fraudsters. Purported to be a digital currency backed by gold bullion, the Off-Shore Gold (OSGold) system was a complete fraud. Hidden behind a legitimate façade, OSGold was only an online method to accept Ponzi funds into the HYIP named OSOpps. The OSOpps Ponzi operator simply stole users’ funds, including the money deposited to OSGold digital currency, and then fled to Mexico. This chapter is a fascinating look into independent segments of the digital currency business that support the financial activities of online Ponzi schemes. Lawsuits that followed the Ponzi’s collapse attempted to assign liability to the Ponzi’s foreign bank partners and digital currency exchange agents.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-137-56869-4
Pages
205 –228
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-56870-0_8
Publisher site
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Abstract

[The years 2001–2004 was a prosperous period of growth for new digital currency systems. This increase also produced millions of new unsuspecting victims who became targets of online fraudsters. Purported to be a digital currency backed by gold bullion, the Off-Shore Gold (OSGold) system was a complete fraud. Hidden behind a legitimate façade, OSGold was only an online method to accept Ponzi funds into the HYIP named OSOpps. The OSOpps Ponzi operator simply stole users’ funds, including the money deposited to OSGold digital currency, and then fled to Mexico. This chapter is a fascinating look into independent segments of the digital currency business that support the financial activities of online Ponzi schemes. Lawsuits that followed the Ponzi’s collapse attempted to assign liability to the Ponzi’s foreign bank partners and digital currency exchange agents.]

Published: Nov 17, 2016

Keywords: Off-Shore Gold; OSGold; OSOpps; Osrecovery; Lateko Bank; Parex Bank; HYIP; Ponzi scam; Prepaid debit cards

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