Despite being forced into bankruptcy, Ontario’s self-proclaimed ‘Crypto King’ Aiden Pleterski has been taking vacations in the U.K. and Miami and posting about it on social media. Andrew Chang explains how someone who owes investors millions can continue living a seemingly lavish lifestyle.
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Moral: Be careful with other people's money.
Setting 100$ in traditional and 100$ in neo-securities every month can't be a bad thing.
Buy. Hold. Follow headlines, not charts.
So, fraud is a civil matter in Ontario? I mean this looks like fraud, talks like fraud, and walks like fraud – why the hell is he not in jail? At least he would have avoided the savage beating he got from angry investors (i mean, isn't the purpose of jail to stop people law into their own hands?). But I have to admit his beaten down face mad me chuckle a bit.😆😆😆😆
Bro needed the money look at his face.. how else was he gonna get girls?🤣
He sure is the "Crypto King" for exposing the greed of people and the incompetence of the Canadian justice system.
Both the province and the federal government need to educate people as to how the system works and they both need to put harder criminal charges on people like him 40 million!? He is basically walking scott free and many more will follow unless both the provincal and federal government step in
its better to be a criminal in canada than anywhere else in the world! the law in canada just encourages more crimes
In the states he would be facing life in prison like that sam bankman guy
All I can say is stay away from these get rich quick money schemes. You see these ads constantly popping up on youtube. Rule of thumb if it sounds to good to be true it usually is
If i had worked an saved up a bunch of money you know where it would be , Sitting in a savings account , might not grow much but i wouldn't lose it and have to start over . going to a casino an losing a hundred bucks you kick yourself an don't go back , losing years worth of work is gut wrenching i'm guessing .
He is still around on instagram shameless.
there gotta be a group behind him, he is not the brain of that group.
Lol he gets kidnapped then goes out for a beer in mclaren
😅 Remember the old saying ?- There is a Sucker born every minute .😅
Just look at him… it’s amazing anyone would give him any money.
"Some of the money under the table" he can ignore owing the common people's money but not the under the table people's money.
The SBF of Canada
I doesn't matter that it's Crypto, scammers are gonna scam.
Ah. Crypto scams. Haha. Don't touch crypto. Ever.
Hey cbc! No bonuses this year if you fired a lot of staff! I want my tax money back. #defundthecbc
The people who invested in this are about as smart as Trudeau voters.
The investors were greedy expecting those types of returns. Does this make what the fraud did right? Of course not! But nobody wants to take accountability.
IMO on you if you were dumb enough to invest in this guy, if your blinded by greed, you deserve to be robbed. There is no secret sauce to Crypto, some folks just got lucky, the others are con artists.
I herd he is in Australia.
Hello, in the past I invested in XRP because a friend who was alive at that time recommend me, as far i can see XRP are not doing so good, the worst is that i don't know what to do in order to loose what ever is left in my wallet. ANY ONE CAN HELP ON THIS …thank's
For normal people, a young kid with a flashy lifestyle promising anything is a red flag. I don’t blame the victims…but people need to do some modicum of diligence.
#coffeezilla should go after this guy
So pretty much the message is that this are cases they don't indite cause they won't win them. lol
lol so what if it's a civil matter? is that what they said after he was kidnappped? "sorry. can't press any charges against the kidnappers. this is clearly a civil matter."
Investors should of known crypto is a pump and dump. Thats sad for them
One look at that guy would be enough to tell me not to give him a single penny.
If you give your money to a 24 year old with no background in asset management or finance , then you deserve to lose it all
Let fox look after your hens. Remember greedy is the nature of human being.
😂😂😂😂😂 sucker and greed goes hand in hand
Always hide your assets from financial predictors. Anytime something can happen so get a digital wallet. Hide it from the government.
I bought btc earlier this year to fund my hiden assets and it's doubled. Get a digital wallet and get paid but invest your own money 😂😂😂
Maybe we can put him in jail because he donated money to the truckers and the freedom rally???😅😅😅
If YOU wanna invest into crypto, LEARN crypto yourself. If you don’t know what you’re investing to (in some form) and have someone doing it, you’re getting scammed 9 times out 10, especially with crypto
I truly don’t understand how an adult in his or her own mind would trust a young kid with millions of dollars to double their money. I don’t have much but even when I invest, I do it through different streams…when a deal is too good….remember what to do in future…there is no get rich quick, not even a chance.