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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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> Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow

This represents only a small portion of the stolen funds. But my understanding was that the holder of the keys owns the crypto. How can the funds get frozen?

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.

As they saying goes, you have to dodge the trap every time, they only have to get you once. Sooner or later we all will slip up if we’re subjected to endless con attempts.
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