千橡市男子因欺骗投资者超过 2200 万美元的加密货币而被起诉

据美国司法部称，经过国土安全部调查，一名千橡市男子因涉嫌诈骗投资者超过 2200 万美元的加密货币而被起诉。

A Thousand Oaks man has been indicted for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $22 million in cryptocurrency, the United States Department of Justice announced.

美国司法部宣布，千橡市一名男子因涉嫌诈骗投资者超过 2200 万美元的加密货币而被起诉。

Gavin Mayo, of Thousand Oaks, and Gabriel Hay, a 23-year-old Beverly Hills resident, both pleaded not guilty Dec. 20 to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, two counts of wire fraud and one count of stalking, according to the Justice Department. They were released from custody on $200,000 bail, and their trial is scheduled to take place in February at the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

据报道，12 月 20 日，千橡市的加文·梅奥 (Gavin Mayo) 和 23 岁的比佛利山庄居民加布里埃尔·海 (Gabriel Hay) 均对一项串谋电信诈骗罪、两项电信诈骗罪和一项跟踪罪名表示无罪。到司法部。他们以 20 万美元的保释金获释，审判定于 2 月份在洛杉矶美国地方法院进行。

“For three years, Hay and Mayo allegedly lied to their investors in order to defraud them out of millions of dollars,” Katrina Berger, Homeland Security Investigations’ executive associate director, said in a written statement. “Such technological fraud schemes cost investors millions of dollars every year. Just because such crimes aren’t violent does not mean they are victimless.”

“三年来，海伊和梅奥涉嫌向投资者撒谎，以骗取他们数百万美元，”国土安全调查执行副主任卡特里娜·伯杰(Katrina Berger)在一份书面声明中表示。 “此类技术欺诈计划每年使投资者损失数百万美元。仅仅因为此类犯罪不是暴力行为，并不意味着它们是没有受害者的。”

Between May 2021 and May 2024, Mayo and Hay sponsored several nonfungible token, or NFT, projects, according to court documents.

根据法庭文件，2021 年 5 月至 2024 年 5 月期间，Mayo 和 Hay 赞助了多个不可替代代币（NFT）项目。

NFTs each represent a unique asset like a piece of art, digital content or media.

每一个 NFT 都代表一种独特的资产，例如一件艺术品、数字内容或媒体。

The two men allegedly made false and misleading claims regarding their plans to launch the digital asset projects, which included Vault of Gems, Faceless, Sinful Souls, Clout Coin, Dirty Dogs, Uncovered, MoonPortal, Squiggles and Roost Coin.

据称，这两个人对其启动数字资产项目的计划做出了虚假和误导性的说法，其中包括 Vault of Gems、Faceless、Sinful Souls、Clout Coin、Dirty Dogs、Uncovered、MoonPortal、Squiggles 和 Roost Coin。

Prosecutors, however, said the men never intended to fulfill those claims and abandoned the projects after collecting funds from investors.

然而，检察官表示，这些人从未打算实现这些主张，并在从投资者那里筹集资金后放弃了这些项目。

They tried to cover up their involvement in the schemes by falsely accusing other people of owning the projects, prosecutors said.

检察官称，他们试图通过错误地指控其他人拥有这些项目来掩盖自己参与这些计划。

When one project manager attempted to expose Hay and Mayo’s fraud, the men reportedly sent him and his family threatening messages.

据报道，当一名项目经理试图揭露海伊和梅奥的欺诈行为时，这些人向他和他的家人发送了威胁信息。

“Fraudsters take advantage of new technologies and financial products to steal investors’ hard-earned money,” Principal Deputy Attorney General Nicole Argentieri, head of the Justice Department’s criminal division, said in a statement.

“欺诈者利用新技术和金融产品窃取投资者的血汗钱，”司法部刑事部门负责人、首席副总检察长妮可·阿根蒂耶里 (Nicole Argentieri) 在一份声明中表示。

“The department is committed to protecting investors and will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to root out fraud involving cryptocurrency and other digital assets and bring offenders to justice,” Argentieri said.

Argentieri 表示：“该部门致力于保护投资者，并将继续与我们的执法合作伙伴合作，根除涉及加密货币和其他数字资产的欺诈行为，并将犯罪者绳之以法。”

If convicted, Hay and Mayo face up to 20 years in prison on each of the conspiracy and wire fraud counts and up to five years on the stalking count.

如果罪名成立，Hay 和 Mayo 因共谋和电信欺诈罪名将面临最高 20 年监禁，而跟踪罪名将面临最高 5 年监禁。