The Kakao-backed cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has launched a system to reward users for identifying fraudulent multi-level schemes related to cryptocurrencies. The exchange has already identified and reported 20 such schemes to the police.
Reporting Illegal SchemesSouth Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Upbit has invited all of its users to use its new system aimed at identifying multi-level, illegal scams posing as cryptocurrencies or initial coin offering (ICO) tokens.
Upbit wrote in its announcement recently that the number of illegal multi-level and ponzi fraud cases has been increasing and its new system attempts to “prevent damage [due] to illegal fraud and to create a sound cryptocurrency ecosystem.” The Kakao-backed exchange asks all of its users to participate in order to prevent cryptocurrency fraud. According to Hankook Media, the system will be in effect for one year and will end in March 2019; Upbit will decide later if this period will be extended.
“If illegal multi-level eyewitnesses or victims report to Upbit and investigating agencies at the same time, a cash award will be given to the first reporter of the illegal recruitment case,” the news outlet elaborated. Upbit confirmed:
"To the original complainant, Upbit pays a reward of 1 million won (~USD$930)."
Reporting a suspected illegal scheme can be done through the Upbit app by choosing the Kakao Talk consultation option, Upbit detailed.
At the time of writing, Upbit is South Korea’s largest crypto exchange and the third largest globally with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.1 billion. Bithumb is the second largest exchange in the country with $686 million trading volume in the same time period.
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