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Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support

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Re: Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support

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It's unbelievable to me that someone managed to accumulate that much Bitcoin but fall for the most basic scam in the book. This makes me sad.

You don't have to be smart to be wealthy. More often than not it's mainly a matter of being lucky or having the right connections.

Re: Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support

#13
post #10

is there a market to secure the crypto of rich but stupid people like this? all I have to do is not share the seed phrase, no brainer

Well it’s two parts

* Don’t share * be able to recover it

You have to be sure however you hide it, you can still access it / someone else can access it it you get hit by a bus.

Re: Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support

#14

Me, transferring my fund’s money somewhere and claiming it got stolen: oh yes, boss, they deepfaked you on video and said Do Kwon was coming to put hardware wallet in my bum; I had to give it to them

Was this fund money? Do we know who's wallet it was?
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