Bitcoin Trader Brutally Tortured - page 6.

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Quote from: pixie85 on March 06, 2019, 05:20:31 PM

Quote from: mk4 on March 06, 2019, 05:14:54 AM

This is the exact reason why I really dislike buying those bitcoin stickers and shirts. The last thing I want is to be tortured for me to give the criminals my private keys. Wearing bitcoin or cryptocurrency-related paraphernalia is pretty much like a huge "rob me" sign and is a huge unnecessary risk a person is taking.

What should we do then? Never go to any bitcoin meetings and conferences? Avoid trading on localbitcoins or any other OTC markets because they can see us and follow us home? If a restaurant nearby opens bitcoin payments we should never do it because somebody will see us scanning a qr code and follow us home to torture the shit out of us.

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woops. my bad for the late counter argument

Not necessarily. You go to bitcoin meetings and conferences for you to increase your network and to actually gain knowledge; and you trade on localbitcoins to simply buy/sell bitcoin. You're taking these risks in exchange for something that's supposedly going to benefit you. Wearing bitcoin shirts and putting up stickers on the other hand though? Does it really benefit you in anything besides bragging rights? It's up to you to decide if it's actually worth it. But for me, it's definitely not.

Also, you can go to conferences and simply leave after with only the people in the conference itself knowing you, along with probably a few people outside the venue. With bitcoin transactions in person, you can simply transact in a safe and secure place like a mall, and in the end, the only person who learns that you hold bitcoin would be the person you're transacting with. But with stickers and shirts? You're basically broadcasting it to every single person you pass by. Let that sink in.

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Quote from: steampunkz on March 06, 2019, 03:26:02 AM

A crypto trader from the Netherlands had been brutally tortured in front of his 4-year-old daughter, by 3 suspects disguised as police. The investigator suspected that the criminals stole some private keys, passwords that transferred the victim's fund to the suspect's wallet. How could the criminal know his a trader and identity, location? Could this be an inside job?

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-robbery-torture-cryptocurrency-netherlands-a8807986.html

This couldn't be an inside job maybe the criminals might just know that he is a crypto earner because of his social media account.
This is why we should be careful on bragging about crypto this could happen to anyone so be careful.
And besides if this is an inside job the criminal would target whales and this wouldn't be the last if this is an inside job.

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yes, it can be a lesson for us not to show whatever we have to others because it can provoke crime for ourselves,I think the 3 people thought he was a big trader who had a lot of cryptocurreny so we have to be careful about what we have because we don't know who is jealous of us.

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Quote from: awawo on March 14, 2019, 04:01:01 PM

The suspect work on information because how did he know the man is a bitcoin trader or is the man doing his bitcoin trading in the open because for all I know since bitcoin is a high tech it trading is mostly carried out using computer device and very difficult to no is any one is involve in it without being told.

maybe he saw the guy doing trades or doing crypto related transactions . and maybe he already aware about cryptocurrency since we know that most criminals are smart people , they are also updated on what is new and what is old . this news serves a lesson to us , that we must not do any money related work when we were outside because criminals are always lurking around . its also better to not store all your funds in your wallet because you can also get hacked online .

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Quote from: steampunkz on March 06, 2019, 03:26:02 AM

A crypto trader from the Netherlands had been brutally tortured in front of his 4-year-old daughter, by 3 suspects disguised as police. The investigator suspected that the criminals stole some private keys, passwords that transferred the victim's fund to the suspect's wallet. How could the criminal know his a trader and identity, location? Could this be an inside job?

More information here:

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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bitcoin-robbery-torture-cryptocurrency-netherlands-a8807986.html

Highly insane. It is good to be anonymous in this field.

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I think there are a number of possibilities 1, there is a planned violence / robbery done by the closest person
2, because we may often tell someone about our work, so that someone is jealous of us and wants to get all our assets
3. there is a chance
so we have to be careful both talking and acting. Remember ... crime is sometimes not because it was planned but because there is a chance

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This is simply a planned work from someone that is close to him. It’s always advisable to keep your assets or worth as secret from anyone because of this kind of issues. Same thing happened in some part of my country where robbers were attacking people and telling them to login into their wallet and send the funds out to their own wallet. All these could only be as a result of a close person leaking some informations to the robbers either knowingly or unknowingly.

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As for me, to give an advice regarding how a trader being brutally humiliated through cyber activities like hacking and phising. In order to be certain and have more secure storage of funds if you're a trader, don't park your asset at trading site since the market wasn't moving very fast on transactions. Based on my experience early this year, I was luckily pulling out and transfer my holdings to secured mew from exchange site which I used to choose stored my coins. Unfortunately after two weeks the site was hacked due to security breach problems. Always have a vigilant and advance thinking towards your holdings in order to prevent any bigger circumstances which might occur randomly, always be at safe side.

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The suspect work on information because how did he know the man is a bitcoin trader or is the man doing his bitcoin trading in the open because for all I know since bitcoin is a high tech it trading is mostly carried out using computer device and very difficult to no is any one is involve in it without being told.

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It's not robbery or torture, it's the free market exposing a weak hand!

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Quote from: pat4cryptoreal on March 09, 2019, 02:38:09 PM

Most robbers nowadays prefer robbing people of their digital asset, they even kidnap and ask for a certain fraction of bitcoin for ransom. Everyone in the crypto-space need to be extremely careful.

Most effective way for criminals not to get compromised by the FBI while transferring money and robbing someone else's pocket.
Now, we starting to realize the darkside of cryptocurrency if we're not very careful not to expose our identity.

Quote from: mk4 on March 06, 2019, 05:14:54 AM

This is the exact reason why I really dislike buying those bitcoin stickers and shirts. The last thing I want is to be tortured for me to give the criminals my private keys. Wearing bitcoin or cryptocurrency-related paraphernalia is pretty much like a huge "rob me" sign and is a huge unnecessary risk a person is taking.

This could also trigger the robbers. I have seen few people
in my place who wore tshirts and jackets with the big BTC logo. There were even cars with cryptocurrency stickers. And this post above is absolutely right, its like these people are inviting robbers to rob them.

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Most robbers nowadays prefer robbing people of their digital asset, they even kidnap and ask for a certain fraction of bitcoin for ransom. Everyone in the crypto-space need to be extremely careful.

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It could be possible that it was his acquintance who did it. Guess he owned big amount of crypto coins or bitcoin on his wallet. If they got his private keys and immediately open his account infront of him, there is no other way that he can get it back. How sad, that we are not aware that the one's we are opening up about crypto infos are the one's who are thinking how to steal it.
Hope, they'll find justice to that man who got brutally tortured.

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Firstly what do you mean by an inside job ?
Do you think that the creators and other people involved with this can be that free !?
They can't !
And also contacting them would mean you are yourself searching for someone about whom you know nothing thus just let this slide this can never happen.
Sometimes people don't have any problem with sharing their personal identities online , here , like me Grin

thus this is surely that case.
He would have just left traces here and there other than that nothing else could happen.

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Knowing the name of a criminal is one thing but finding the face that carry out the crimes is another thing, before any criminal will carry out a criminal act he must work with information. The identity of the bitcoin trader might have been disclosed to the criminal by an insider.

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This is a very unwanted news and it's not good for the cryptocurrency community.
Probably the victim had tipped himself of to the suspect that why it's paramount to keep anonymity

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it was very painful, and it made a huge loss for the victims, and I think it needs to be investigated more broadly.

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Shocking that they would do this in front of a child but proves that they will go to any measure to get paid. Ensure your home has an alarm system with a panic button, this and a hardware wallet will keep your bitcoins safe

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Quote from: steampunkz on March 06, 2019, 03:26:02 AM

A crypto trader from the Netherlands had been brutally tortured in front of his 4-year-old daughter, by 3 suspects disguised as police. The investigator suspected that the criminals stole some private keys, passwords that transferred the victim's fund to the suspect's wallet. How could the criminal know his a trader and identity, location? Could this be an inside job?

I have heard these sort of news in the past too, never ever reveal your identity to anyone you meet online or boost about your crypto wealth to anyone or post your trading exploits in social media, i am not sure how he was exposed to a bunch of criminals, unless they are caught and how they took him as a target it is just speculation. I have not seen any updates about the past crimes too, until they are caught you never know how they targeted him.

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Quote from: xvids on March 08, 2019, 11:00:29 AM

I wonder how did they know that the person is a trader?
Unless the person post it on his social media or tell anyone around him there is no other way they would know,
And also if this was an inside job why would he be the target.

Those are criminals. Those people literally scanning potential victims and it's possible that the trader was in their radar and they have build a 'case' against him for months and they took sweet time to let the traders feels comfortable and then they attack. Gutless mofo, they should be really put behind bars for this crimes.

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