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The present crisis in the economy triggers financial problems for individuals across the board. All forms of investment fraud are rising fast whilst cryptocurrency is rapidly gaining...

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Joanna Bailey
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The present crisis in the economy triggers financial problems for individuals across the board. All forms of investment fraud are rising fast whilst cryptocurrency is rapidly gaining ground as the vehicle of choice for fraudsters. The lawyers in Giambrone & Partners' banking and financial fraud litigation department point out that the groundbreaking case where we secured the first order of its kind in Europe, in that permission to serve proceedings on persons unknown to two digital wallets over the blockchain by non-fungible token or 'NFT', now offers, for some victims, a route to recovery of their lost funds.

However, there are many other ways that the novice investor is being defrauded. It is not uncommon for an innocent third party to be an inadvertent facilitator of the fraud or at least in some way unwittingly aid the fraudster. Wrongdoers involved in financial fraud prefer to keep their identity and whereabouts hidden, often third party intermediary has

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