Cases / Crypto & digital assets
Banana.Fund
Richard Matthew John O'Neill (aka Jo Cook)
ReportedAug 3, 2020
LocationEngland
Amount$7,100,000
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- Company / entity
- Banana.Fund
- Industry
- Cryptocurrency startup crowdfunding platform
- How investors were recruited
- Online crypto crowdfunding platform during the 2017 bitcoin bull run; 417 investors
- Pitch & red flags
- promised equity stakes; claimed platform would "create a level playing field for all users to pursue their business ideas, free of charge"; later offered to triple pledges in USDT