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That crypto firm’s fake CEO is actually just some British man.
Earlier this month The Guardian reported that the CEO of a crypto firm called HyperVerse didn’t seem to be a real person: “Steven Reece Lewis” had an impressive resume, but there was no evidence he existed.
Now The Guardian has tracked down Steven Harrison, “an Englishman living in Thailand,” who was paid to appear in HyperVerse’s investor materials. He says he didn’t realize he was being used in a scam:
“I went away and I actually looked at the company because I was concerned that it could be a scam,” Harrison said. “So I looked online a bit and everything seemed OK, so I rolled with it.”
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