If there were just one rule to follow to protect yourself from scammers, it would be the following: When someone explicitly says a financial opportunity isn’t a scam, there’s a high likelihood that it, ahem, is.
On Tuesday, that maxim held true as the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a federal agency that regulates the derivatives market, alleged in a lawsuit that Michael and Amanda Griffis, of Clarksville, Tenn., scammed over 100 investors out of at least $6 million through a crypto trading scheme they called “Blessings Thru Crypto” or “Blessings of God Thru Crypto.”
