The CEO of Australian crypto outfit HyperVerse is a graduate of Cambridge, an alumnus of Goldman Sachs, and an entrepreneur who sold a company to Adobe. But there's just one problem: He may not be ...

HyperVerse was a nearly $2 billion fraudulent crypto investment scheme with a fake CEO at its helm, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and a grand jury allege in a lawsuit and criminal ...

Neither Burton nor the Southern District of Florida Federal Public Defender’s Office, which is currently representing him, responded to requests for comment from Rolling Stone, and no others have been ...

The HyperVerse cryptocurrency scheme, primarily targeting investors in developing nations across Asia, Africa, and the Pacific, crumbled, leaving many unable to access their funds. In Nepal, ...

The CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme appears, much like the promises his firm made, to be completely fake. As The Guardian reports, Steven Reece Lewis was put forth with all kinds of bona fides in 2021 ...

"Steven Reece Lewis" had an impressive CV, which may have attracted investors to a crypto fund. However, there is no record of Lewis ever existing, The Guardian reported. Investors put an estimated $1 ...

Earlier this year PCG reported on a crypto rug-pull with a new twist: The CEO of the firm involved didn't appear to exist. The news came in the wake of a Guardian Australia investigation into ...

Last week in the world of crypto, the world has unmasked significant scams and hacks happening across the industry, with one of the top issues centering on SEC's X account that hackers accessed. It ...

An actor who was hired to pretend to be the highly qualified CEO of a shady, collapsed cryptocurrency hedge fund called HyperVerse has apologized after a YouTuber unmasked his real identity last week.

United States authorities arrested and charged Rodney Burton for allegedly defrauding more than $7 million through a fake investment scheme, according to allegations submitted by the U.S. Internal ...

Earlier this month The Guardian reported that the CEO of a crypto firm called HyperVerse didn’t seem to be a real person: “Steven Reece Lewis” had an impressive resume, but there was no evidence he ...