Incident for Austin Nedved 2020-12-17 
| First Name | Austin |
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| Other Name | |
| Last Name | Nedved |
| Alias | USMC1991 |
| DOB | Unknown |
| Age | 29 |
| Gender | male |
| Location | US |
| Location | |
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| Information | Nedved admitted that he ran a business in which he bought and sold digital currencies, including Bitcoin, for cash. Nedved advertised his services under the screen name “USMC1991” over LocalBitcoins.com and Paxful.com, two online businesses that matched Bitcoin buyers and sellers and facilitated their transactions. From at least 2017 through 2019, Nedved aided and abetted romance and lottery schemes targeting vulnerable victims. In romance schemes, victims are targeted to send money abroad to people they believe to be romantic interests, while in lottery schemes victims are convinced that they can obtain lottery winnings or sizeable government grants by forwarding cash for administrative fees or expenses to the fraudsters. Despite knowing or being willfully blind to the fact that his customers were fraud victims, Nedved sold Bitcoin to them so that they could send money overseas to the fraudsters. |
| Pending Outcome | Yes |
| Damages Costs | Unknown |
| Date Of Crime | Unknown |
| Crime(s) | Fraud lottery schemes |
| Motovation(s) | profit |
| Charge(s) | aiding and abetting wire fraud Money laundering conspiracy |
| Authorities | FBI |
| Authorities Statement | view |
| Prosecutors | Seth B. Kosto |
| Judges | Timothy S. Hillman |
| Plea | Yes |
| Plea Date | 2020-12-17 |
| Plea Info | guilty |
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