Scammer Loses $4,800,000 in Bitcoin as Thieves Drain Ledger Wallets Holding ‘Task Scam’ Proceeds
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Thieves are draining nearly $5 million in Bitcoin (BTC) from a crypto scammer who profited from deceiving victims through a task scam. Chainalysis says one of the biggest victims in the Ledger thefts was the scammer themselves. "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." The firm details how the scam operated by paying people to fake sales and reviews of real items before creating a negative balance that tricked victims into adding their own money. "In this task scam, people were paid to fake sales and reviews of real items.
First reported by The Daily Hodl. This page is a short excerpt; the full text is theirs.
