纽约州总检察长追回近600万美元加密金字塔骗局赃款：四名推广者被终身禁业
纽约州总检察长 Letitia James 10月22日宣布，已从一个专门针对海地社区等移民群体的加密货币金字塔骗局中为受害者追回近600万美元。
作为 Letitia James 2024年6月起诉加密货币交易公司 NovaTechFx（NovaTech）与加密货币挖矿公司 AWS Mining Pty Ltd. 的后续，该骗局的四名顶级推广者 Martin Zizi、Frantz Ciceron、Ricardo Roy Sr. 与 James Corbett，将分别支付290万美元、205万美元、275,861美元和75万美元赃款，用于赔偿受害者，并被永久禁止参与证券、商品与加密货币行业。
与此同时，Letitia James 正请求法院判令已潜逃出境的 NovaTech 创始人 Cynthia Petion 与 Eddy Petion 支付13亿美元的损害赔偿与赃款返还；两人在2025年8月已被缺席判决并禁业。
调查显示，包括纽约市、Westchester、长岛及 Rockland、Orange 两县在内的逾11,000名纽约人向这两家公司投资并损失数千万美元，全球受害者达数十万。骗子在祷告小组和 WhatsApp 群聊中以海地克里奥尔语广告和宗教话术招揽投资，AWS Mining 曾许诺15%至20%的月回报；2019年8月至2023年4月间，投资者向 NovaTech 存入价值逾10亿美元的加密货币，但实际用于交易的不足2,600万美元，NovaTech 最终于2023年5月崩盘，数万投资者无法提现。
Letitia James 表示，这些骗子以美好生活的许诺把目标对准移民与宗教社区，掠夺的却是他们毕生的积蓄。（GSM 据纽约州总检察长办公室发布）
New York Attorney General Secures Nearly $6 Million From Crypto Pyramid Scheme: Four Promoters Banned for Life
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced on October 22 that she had secured nearly $6 million for victims from a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that targeted Haitian and other immigrant communities.
As a result of the lawsuit James filed in June 2024 against cryptocurrency trading company NovaTechFx (NovaTech) and cryptocurrency mining company AWS Mining Pty Ltd., four of the scheme's top promoters — Martin Zizi, Frantz Ciceron, Ricardo Roy Sr. and James Corbett — will pay $2.9 million, $2.05 million, $275,861 and $750,000, respectively, in disgorgement for the benefit of victims, and have been permanently banned from the securities, commodities and cryptocurrency industries.
James is also asking the court to order NovaTech's founders, Cynthia and Eddy Petion, who fled the country, to pay $1.3 billion in damages and disgorgement, following a default judgment issued against them in August 2025 that also banned them from the industries.
More than 11,000 New Yorkers, including residents of New York City, Westchester, Long Island and Rockland and Orange counties, invested in the two companies and lost tens of millions of dollars, while victims worldwide numbered in the hundreds of thousands. The scammers recruited investors in prayer groups and WhatsApp group chats with advertisements in Haitian Creole and religious messages; AWS Mining promised monthly returns of 15 to 20 percent. From August 2019 through April 2023, investors deposited more than $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency with NovaTech, but less than $26 million was ever traded, and when NovaTech collapsed in May 2023, tens of thousands of investors were unable to withdraw their funds.
James said the scammers targeted immigrant and religious communities with the promise of a better life but instead robbed them of their life savings. (GSM, based on the New York Attorney General's Office release)
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：纽约州总检察长 Letitia James 主持宣誓仪式（2023年）。图片：Joecento，CC0，来源 Wikimedia Commons
