Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves

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.

First reported by Bitcoin Magazine. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.