Couple of days ago, a group of fraud from Bangladesh made around $250000 within 2 months through influncing people to gamble in their gambling sites/apps and later scam or something like that, have been arrested by police.
All such things start to be discovered because of they scammed victims. Then they were reported by victims to police officers. Further investigations for governments caused troubles to scammers or scam projects' owners. If they run a project and don't scam anyone else, nothing wrong will find them.
Make bad initiatives then get bad endings. They decide what they do and what they will receive.
From the amount they made, they had to sent a lot of funds to Ukraine where the leading people live. They used bitcoin to send the money. Police said they are investigating more to find everyone related to the gang and/or who have helped them directly or indirectly.
I sometimes sell BTC in local market through the help of some facebook group. I never felt that I am in risk but for the first time, it seems like we are actually risking ourself a lot of by selling BTC to unknown. What if they get a trace of ourself and link us with such transactions? Would we be also get punished? For your info, we had to use our mobile number to continue dealing.
Hey. The point is you sell your bitcoin, so what's wrong with it. That is your bitcoin, and you earned it officially.
For tradings with the others, try to trade with reputable guys only if you trade with huge amount. It will minimize your risks. Trade with reputable guys, influencers in your local communitites.
For tradings with strangers, don't trade with huge amount. If something is wrong, you won't get troubles with it.