Bitcoin investors in South Africa lose millions in an alleged exit scam

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Bitcoin investors in South Africa lose millions in an alleged exit scam

Bitcoin financial specialists in South Africa remain to lose millions after the CEO of a Johannesburg-based digital currency venture firm, VaultAge Solutions, was accounted for outlaw after he remove all interchanges since December 2018. 

The Polokwane Hawks, who are the exploring authority, for this situation, said that few Bitcoin financial specialists cried foul when the now-broken VaultAge Solutions CEO, Willie Breedt, made a pursue for it taking a huge number of dollars worth of speculation. 

The digital money guidelines in South Africa are in progress decisively for this one explanation – to diminish the impact of unknown substances on the overall population that bargain in private and outlandish cryptographic money exchanges. Despite the fact that the locale is moderately professional crypto and trusts it to be the eventual fate of cash, it has additionally been a hotbed of probably the greatest cryptographic money tricks. 

Bitcoin financial specialists in South African leave trick smell a rat 

A gathering of more than 2,000 Bitcoin financial specialists chose to put a great many South African rand in Breedt's unrealistic yet unsubstantiated venture plot. Regardless of not obtaining a substantial working permit from the Financial Services Conduct Authority, one speculator believed it to be an astute plan to furrow in around R6 million in the questionable plan set forth by VaultAge Solutions. 

Today, the speculator has close to R50 in the wallet and a couple of nonexclusive messages from the supposed absconder. Lettie Engelbrecht from Krugersdorp, who is one of the numerous upset Bitcoin speculators, expresses that their solicitations to restore the well deserved financial specialist cash has failed to receive any notice. 

"At the point when I previously reached Breedt to restore my cash, all I got was a vague email that basically vowed to reimburse the exceptional sum. It didn't make reference to how and when. From that point forward, I haven't got some other correspondence," she asserts. 


Urgently look for a discount 

Tragically, the greater part of his Bitcoin financial specialists are retired people making due on close assets. For them, a venture of R200,000 is impressively high as they frantically look for a genuinely necessary discount and a test into the case. In spite of the fact that their ventures yielded critical returns, as guaranteed by Breedt, from December to April, there has been no data and correspondence in the next months, said the report. 

Presently, Hawks have no whereabouts of Breedt, with hypotheses running from looking for haven close to the town of Jeffrey's Bay or escaping the nation with millions in his pocket as a large number of crushed Bitcoin financial specialists energetically anticipate more data on this case.


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This is a red flag for every cryptocurrency investors in Africa to be very careful on where to investment their money.

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