HitBTC Scammers Face Two Years in Jail for $140K Bitcoin Twitter Fraud

Two Canadian men who defrauded a (BTC) investor out of $140,000 by impersonating exchange HitBTC may serve two years in prison.

According to court records on Dec. 16, brothers Jagroop Singh Khatkar and Karanjit Singh Khatkhar pled guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud over a scam carried out via Twitter in July 2018.

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