[Golden Finance] According to reports, a social engineering scammer in New York set up a small call center impersonating customer service of a certain trading platform, guiding users to create wallets containing controlled seeds on phishing websites, and has stolen over $4 million in user funds. His accomplice previously defrauded $240,000 from an elderly victim in November 2024, part of which flowed into a certain platform, while the rest was converted into XMR. He publicly revealed a certain platform account and leaked the Wallet Address during a Discord call, showing it was frequently used for online gambling.
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TokenEconomist
· 14h ago
actually, this is a classic economic principal-agent problem manifesting in web3... predictable attack vector tbh
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shadowy_supercoder
· 14h ago
This account doesn't even spare the elderly, it's worse than a dog.
A New York scam gang impersonated platform customer service and stole over 4 million dollars from users.
[Golden Finance] According to reports, a social engineering scammer in New York set up a small call center impersonating customer service of a certain trading platform, guiding users to create wallets containing controlled seeds on phishing websites, and has stolen over $4 million in user funds. His accomplice previously defrauded $240,000 from an elderly victim in November 2024, part of which flowed into a certain platform, while the rest was converted into XMR. He publicly revealed a certain platform account and leaked the Wallet Address during a Discord call, showing it was frequently used for online gambling.