Texas and other state securities boards have sent a warning about crypto scams linked to AI hype. jackschickler reports.
The scheme operated by Horatiu Caragaceanu, The Shark of Wall Street and Hedge4.ai markets coins known as TruthGPT Coin . The token is using images of Elon Musk, Binance Chief Executive Officer Changpeng “CZ” Zhao and Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin, said the Texas State Securities Board, which is joined by counterparts in New Jersey, Alabama, Montana and Kentucky.
“Artificial intelligence is buzzing,” Texas Securities Commissioner Travis J. Iles said in a statement. “Bad actors continue their attempts to capitalize on this widespread public interest.” The TruthGPT coin claims to use machine learning to predict future crypto prices, and involves offering unregistered or non-permitted securities to Texas residents, the regulator said. Caragaceanu is based in California and Bucharest and has previous form promising outlandish returns from coin offerings that now have zero value, it added.
Other ventures by Caragaceanu, The Shark of Wall Street and Hedge4.ai have also been named by the regulators, including the GPTX token and Hedge 4 non-fungible tokens . The owner of Hedge4.ai’s Telegram channel told CoinDesk that the initiative is “not a scam investment” and that it does “not sell GPTX to Americans.”
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