The Texas State Securities Board has served a cease and desist order to a fraudulent cryptocurrency company, according to an official document.
“many other Altcoins including Forex Trade.”
The company in question is called ECY Crypto, aka Exycrypto, and claims to be based in La Cité-Limoilou, Quebec. Also named in the complaint are three individuals related to the enterprise. They are Morgan Nolan, Rafael Logan, and Melissa Spring, the company’s promotions manager, business development manager and strategy director respectively.
These people do not appear on the company’s website. In fact, nobody does.
Looking at the website, the company appears to be confused as to what exactly it is offering to its “12,783” users. On the ‘about us’ page it claims to “provide hardware mining solutions and mining farm hosting to all kind of users”, but then goes on to say “many other Altcoins including Forex Trade.”
Another description reads: “The concept of EXYCRYPTO is Cryptofriendly and allows you to earn passively from the leading digital concepts”.
On one page you can find investment plans with guaranteed weekly payouts:
But wait, it gets even dodgier! On the terms and conditions page, you can find this paragraph:
Cease and desist
According to the order, examples of activities with which the TSSB has taken issue include the following:
It deems Exycrypto to be fraudulently selling securities, and orders it to stop on pain of “a fine of not more than $5,000, or imprisonment in the penitentiary for not more than two years, or by both such fine and imprisonment.”
Sorry Jahmal!
The TSSB has been very active in shooting down crypto-varmints, serving cease and desist orders to and in January alone.
In fact, in April it published a the results of its investigation into that claimed to be associated somehow with cryptocurrency. It found that not one of them had a licence to sell securities, which is it how the authority defines tokens, that only eleven provided a physical address, and six appeared to be Ponzi schemes.
I’ll leave you with some words of advice from the Lone Star State:
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