The FBI identified the suspect, a Greek national who adopted the screen name ‘The Bull,’ by using undercover agents and tracking the Bitcoin payments to his account.
(Credit: Pixabay) The Justice Department has indicted a 30-year-old Greek man for selling insider stock trading tips to internet users over the Dark Web. The suspect, Apostolos Trovias, has been selling the stock trading tips since at least Dec.2016 in exchange for Bitcoin, according to the indictment, which was unsealed on Friday. Trovias allegedly began selling the stock trading tips on the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay using the screen name “The Bull.” He did so by promoting himself as “hedge fund insider,” employed as an “office clerk working in a trading branch.” (Credit: Justice Department) “I am offering information on certain NYSE, NASDAQ and OTC (over the counter) stocks. Buying my service will [give] you an edge by knowing what the big boys are buying or selling,” Trovias wrote in a posting on the AlphaBay site. He then began charging $29.95 for individual stock trading tip, $99.
