Roger Federer is one of the richest tennis players in history. In addition to its $ 130 million profit in the field of job prizes, it has support deals with trademarks such as UNIQLO, Rolex, Mercedes and Credit Suisse. His net wealth is about 600 million dollars.
According to service employees, Israel explained that it and Federer fell in love and that he was planning a trip to Israel to meet her. The idea that she was deceived did not express her opinion – so that the employees gave her the harsh truth.
One of the most detailed plans included the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), where fake videos distributed it to show Maria Barturomo, CNBC anchor, who had an interview with US President Donald Trump. In a doctoral section, Trump urges viewers to join a “$ 20 million coding gift” claiming to be in cooperation with Elon Musk.
Participants were directed to a link that led to a fake field, where reassuring users were deceived to transfer their money. This was just one of dozens of fraud fields – some of which were registered through unknown hosting services such as Nicenic, which block the details of ownership and make implementation difficult.
Avi Dayan, CEO and founder of Bitcoin Change, said another wide tactic includes fake trading platforms. In these cases, the victims are treated by a supposed “investment advisor” on social media. The Scammer offers fake investment formulas and is high returns, with the support of successful success reports.
In the initial stage, the victim is asked to send a modest amount to an encrypted wallet with a legitimate appearance linked to what appears to be a real exchange. After the first conversion, they are encouraged to invest more and seem profitable returns – until they try to withdraw their money. At this point, they were told that they must pay taxes to foreign authorities before the money was issued. But money never arrives.
To add an insult to the injury, many victims are connected later by a supposed lawyer who specializes in recovering lost encryption assets. These “services” fees? Just another part of the fraud.
Tactics that fraudsters use online develops rapidly, as artificial intelligence is now enabling to create almost ideal virtual personalities that are difficult to distinguish between real people.
“We are witnessing a major shift in the methods of fraudsters. In the past, they relied on fake websites and the edited pictures of Today, using advanced AI technologies to generate virtual characters that look like a completely real thing.” “This poses a serious threat, which makes it difficult for users to know what is real and what is fake.”
Keren added that the social media algorithms, which tend to prefer the content that includes familiar or interesting personalities, accelerates the spread of these tricks – without users who assume themselves the trouble of verifying their health.
Dayan noticed the challenge of waking victims from illusion. “People only put money without realizing that the whole thing is a big one.
This fraud has also contributed to increasing general confidence in encryption investments.
“We definitely feel this fear among customers. But there is a big difference between putting your money in an exchange and keeping it in a special wallet. When your money is with a third party, the hacking chances are much higher than if it is in your personal portfolio.
However, encryption challenges in Israel extend beyond confidence. The industry still hinders the lack of clear regulations. There is no organized policy to impose taxes on encryption, and there is no legal framework for paying taxes in the cryptocurrency, investing in encryption companies or granting encryption options to employees. Israeli banks are largely rejecting the support of encryption transactions, and the implementation of the organizers – including the Bank of Israel, the tax authority and the securities authority – after the implementation of comprehensive rules.
In the wake of the recent country observer report, which revealed that the government is losing billions of formulas due to non -local encryption taxes, the Tax Authority issued a draft law proposing the definition of encryption as an asset, with tax profits on capital gains. The Ministry of Finance has also published the project of regulations aimed at enabling taxes on the circulation of entities in digital currencies.
Last month, the Knesset sub -committee for artificial intelligence and advanced technologies held a discussion on this topic. The Chairman of the Committee, MK Orit Farkash-Hacohen, one of the few legislators who actively pay for encryption, stated that the previous government formulated a policy to strengthen the organization. Two years later, government officials admitted that little progress has been made.
Nir Herscheman, CEO of the Israeli Cryxal Forum, warned that without organization, Blockchain companies leave Israel steadily, as a quarter is no longer employed locally. Joal Roche, CEO of Crypto Trading Platform Bits of gold, shared the bureaucratic struggles facing his client with banks. Diane added that he is waiting for seven years to receive a license from the Israel Capital Markets Authority.
Israeli government officials seem to be in line with banks in their cautious approach to the encrypted currency, pointing to concerns about money laundering and financial stability, even with the adoption of hundreds of thousands of Israelis digital currencies.
ILANIT MADMONI, head of the Finetech Unit at Bank of Israel, said the main attention to banks is the potential use of encryption trading for illegal money laundering.
“It is the issue of risk management. The collapse of encryption companies is real risks for consumers,” added Hovaf Ester of the chief economist in the Ministry of Finance. As a result, the country’s initial steps towards regulating encryption are still slow and fragmented.
Follow the number of Israelis who carry the encryption portfolio is still not consistent. According to the Bank of Israel, nearly 60,000 Israelis maintain a digital governor, with assets estimated at $ 1.5 billion. However, the state observer report was martyred with estimates estimated by the Ministry of Finance 200,000 holders of the portfolio, while the tax authority places the number closer to 500,000.
In a recent hearing, Roche said that his company alone has more than 250,000 Israeli agents and estimated that the total number of wallet holders may reach 600,000. No matter how the number is, these citizens can no longer ignore it.
Bitcoin Change, the first Crypto ATM network in Israel, was launched in 2017, when Bitcoin was trading in about 7000 shekels. Today, based on market fluctuations and even Donald Trump data, this price hovers about 300,000 shekels.
The encryption market is very volatile. Do you feel it? How do people interact with this volatility?
“Since we are running material branches, we are in a deep contact with the market. We see why people buy and sell. Some of them rush to sell when bitcoin rises. Others hear that it rises in the news and comes to buy.”
Why are people still buying cash instead of the Internet?
“People still want a human touch. We serve experienced users, not just beginners. Most of our customers also trades on stock exchanges like Binance. But Israeli credit card companies have prevented Binance purchases, so people come to us with cash, well to exchange for exchange – in exchange – it does not require exchange in exchange. Banks.”
Banks are often cited concerns about money laundering. How do you eat it?
“From the first day, I specified two rules: there is no identity – each person must provide a valid identifier. Second, and we limit transactions to 10,000 shekels per day, 20,000 per week and 30,000 a month. No one walks with criticism bags.”
Are you compressed to allow larger transactions?
“Of course. We reject dozens of requests per day. If someone is looking to launder money-this is not the place. There are many other places, like Telegram. My cruel estimation-tens of millions of Shekels move there daily in black market deals. But there are non-stop fraud to fill an entire article.”
