Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support
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#3Dangerous game to play.
People get unalived for way less than this.
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#4It'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.
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#5Me, 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
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#6> 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?
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#7It'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.
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#8Dangerous game to play. People get unalived for way less than this.
I think criminal call centers are usually well connected to violent criminals. The mark might be lucky that they fell for something early.
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#9It'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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#10is 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