New Zealand radio personality Duncan Garner, who hosts The AM Show on MagicTalkRadio, has denied promoting Bitcoin (BTC) on Facebook.

I don’t do any of that ‘coin’

Local news daily NewsHub provided a video of Garner denying his involvement within the Facebook promotions on August. 26. Following an interview about a recent privacy breach within the government of new Zealand, Garner said:

“That isn't me on Facebook pumping up Bitcoin [...] I don’t do Bitcoin, I don’t do any of that ‘coin,’ I haven’t been on Facebook for one or two of years. It’s not me. however individuals say, ‘Hey, you’re pushing Bitcoin. How’s it going?’”

Impersonation within the crypto world-Impersonation for crypto sales and promotion isn't unheard of within the crypto world. In August, a manufacturer of crypto mining hardware — Bitmain — defendant a crypto product referred to as “Bitmain Cloud Miner” of stealing its name for promotional functions.

According to Bitmain, the entities behind Bitmain Cloud miner pretended to be Bitmain so as to market their own products, together with the miner and a token referred to as Mangocoin (MNG). Bitmain wrote:

“We would really like to cue our existing and potential customers to properly establish the service supplier once getting products, to sign in for or purchase anything on-line solely after careful deliberation and stay tuned in to deceptive promotions, unlawful fund-raising, fraud and alternative malicious activities on the net.”

The U.K monetary Conduct Authority (FCA) has conjointly had problems with impersonation, with criminals showing to blatantly impersonate the regulator so as to market crypto assets. The probable fraudsters sent out scam emails claiming to be from the FCA entitled "Guaranteed chance to earn" and together with the U.K. regulator’s brand and branding. The FCA has denied having any reference to this email campaign, and has said that the campaign is “likely to be joined to organized fraud.”

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