Bitcoin Magazine Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves
Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according to blockchain analysts, and lost nearly $5 million in bitcoin.
In a post Thursday, Chainalysis wrote that a crook lost 60 bitcoins worth about $4.8 million they’d stolen via a so-called task scam.
According to Chainalysis, the address was linked with a con where people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items. They were told to add their own money in order to get paid — and then stolen from.
One of the biggest victims of the Ledger theft was a scammer themselves. They lost more than 60BTC, about $4.8M. The funds were from a task scam. In this task scam, people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items. Then a "negative balance" appeared, and they were told… https://t.co/IJX4tx9ib3 pic.twitter.com/pGXNJkZJUi
Source: Bitcoin Magazine
Curated by GTokenTool. All rights reserved by the original publisher. For informational purposes only — not investment advice.