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Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support
- pants2 8mo agoIt'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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- Coffeewine 8mo agoAs 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.
- crote 8mo agoYou 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.
- toomuchtodo 8mo agohttps://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=trezor-support-scam
- moralestapia 8mo agoDangerous game to play. People get unalived for way less than this.
- chestercheeto 8mo agoI think criminal call centers are usually well connected to violent criminals. The mark might be lucky that they fell for something early.
- renewiltord 8mo agoMe, 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
- pants2 8mo agoWas this fund money? Do we know who's wallet it was?
- arcastroe 8mo ago> 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?
- gaanbal 8mo agois 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
- cindyllm 8mo ago[dead]
- iterateoften 8mo agoWell 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.
- pants2 8mo agoYes, custodians like Anchorage or Fireblocks are the main ones.