FBI Looking for Hashflare Victims
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#2seems to be a legit request from the fbi about a web3 token
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#3Who in their right mind would share their wallet info with the FBI. That’s an easy way to get shortlisted.
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#4Who in their right mind would share their wallet info with the FBI. That’s an easy way to get shortlisted.
Yeah! Don’t trust the man! The man is only interested in … something! There must be an ulterior motive in trying to bring scammers to book!
Just think for a second. If someone has been scammed out of millions, you think they’re not going to talk to law enforcement about it? They wouldn’t only if they were perpetrating their own scam.
At some point privacy nuts on HN have to really stop and think before typing.
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#5Who in their right mind would share their wallet info with the FBI. That’s an easy way to get shortlisted.
Yeah! Don’t trust the man! The man is only interested in … something! There must be an ulterior motive in trying to bring scammers to book! Just think for a second. If someone has been scammed out of millions, you think they’re not going to talk to law enforcement about it? They wouldn’t only if they were perpetrating their own scam. At some point privacy nuts on HN have to really stop and think before typing.
I'm not exactly sure what the FBI would gain here, and it may be nothing, but distrusting them by default seems rational given their long history of corruption.
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#6Who in their right mind would share their wallet info with the FBI. That’s an easy way to get shortlisted.
Not sure about the right mind but the BTC core developer who "lost" 216 BTC a few days back apparently tried asking FBI for help[1].
[1] https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1609630432546406404#m
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#7They also specifically ask for people who made withdrawals.
In a fraud like this, those who lost money often recover from the people who got out in time. Eg almost 90% of the losses from Bernie Madoff were recovered by suing those who innocently withdrew their 'gains' before the ponzi scheme was discovered.
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#8Who in their right mind would share their wallet info with the FBI. That’s an easy way to get shortlisted.
I default to pro-privacy, on principle, but are you talking about a more specific threat?
A threat that outweighs the benefits of: possibly increasing the likelihood/degree of takedown of an alleged scammer, and also possibly being more likely to be compensated for losses?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah! Don’t trust the man! The man is only interested in … something! There must be an ulterior motive in trying to bring scammers to book! Just think for a second. If someone has been scammed out of millions, you think they’re not going to talk to law enforcement about it? They wouldn’t only if they were perpetrating their own scam. At some point privacy nuts on HN have to really stop and think before typing.
I'm not exactly sure what the FBI would gain here, and it may be nothing, but distrusting them by default seems rational given their long history of corruption.
Again, this communication from the FBI is specifically targeted at victims of a particular scam. The victims have already lost more than what the FBI could hypothetically maybe do to them.
Unless we live in Scooby Doo-verse and the FBI agent removes his mask to reveal that he was the IRS all along and this was all a ploy to get people to pay their taxes.
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#10Related arrests of the individuals involved: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/pr/two-estonian-citizens-a...