Woman Arrested for $450,000 Crypto Heist - page 2.

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Quote from: endlasuresh on November 12, 2018, 02:37:58 AM

Quote from: Jating on November 10, 2018, 05:54:03 AM

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The victim might already known to each other, but its hard to catch such type of scammers. Never trust anyone in these days as money is important to them than people life.

Exactly, so obviously the man has been targeted by the criminals for quite some time and slowly building his case until the man let down his guard because the women already got his trust. And its really hard to catch these type of person/s, maybe she was just tempted or something because of the huge amount involved. Although its a happy ending, but the man has to endured it and has to go to trial in order to get it back, that is if the woman has still the bulk of the money but I doubt it.

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Quote from: prashadraj205000 on November 07, 2018, 10:49:00 PM

A 23-year-old woman was arrested by the police over the theft of $450,000 in ripple, the cryptocurrency. This incident took place in New South Wales, Australia.

The victim reached out to the investigators saying that his account had been hacked the month before. He said that his account was inaccessible for a couple of days back in January.

When the man checked his account after re-gaining access, he found that his cryptocurrency account was also compromised, leaving almost zero balance in the account.

http://coindelite.com

That is freaking huge amount of money and no way im gonna forget how to access my wallet because of that. It is really impossible for a person to inaccess with that kind of wallet after having a lot of money stored in there unless you are such a wealthy person that $450,000 is just a spare coins for you but that is not the case. Each and every holder must be responsible in order to keep his asset intact.

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Quote from: mk4 on November 10, 2018, 05:10:11 AM

the link to the actual article: https://coindelite.com/news/woman-arrested-for-450000-crypto-heist/

Thank you!

Quote from: Kotone on November 12, 2018, 12:13:16 AM

I wonder how that account was stolen or hacked so that it can be prevented as well as the platform of the account. I can also think that the account maybe was compromised by a former lover as revenge or gold digging lol. Maybe I'll just google the direct link to know more of the detail.

My first thoughts exactly when I read that. A 56 year old man and a 23 year old woman, hmm... Sounds like someone was probably thinking too much with something other than their brain and paid the price. As bad as it sounds, I think both are at fault, the woman for taking advantage and the man (if is the case) for being so gullible.

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Quote from: Jating on November 10, 2018, 05:54:03 AM

I'm not really sure how they caught the woman unless victim knows her. Perhaps he trusted her at some point and when she got his trust and confidence, the woman slowly snoop at the unsuspecting victims cell phone that's why she was able to swept the mans account.

Again, this is a lessons for everyone not to blindly trust because you don't know who you dealing with. But we're glad that justice has been served and hope that the old man can get his money back through restitution.

The victim might already known to each other, but its hard to catch such type of scammers. Never trust anyone in these days as money is important to them than people life.

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The issue is that many people like to brag about their Crypto profits and don't realize that they are going to be a target.

Reminds me of the story where I bought one of my first Bitcoins a few years back. This was before Coinbase, Gemini, Bitfinex, etc. Basically all you had was some ads on Craigslist or Kijiji to buy/sell crypto. Even Bitcoin ATMs werent popular back then.

Met some person at a very public place, he seemed like a nice individual. However he basically carried over $50,000 worth of Crypto on his laptop when he sent me the coins. He didn't even have a password set on his Bitcoin Core wallet.

I told him to becareful in the future because its alot of money and you might become a target. He said he is not worried since we are meeting in a public place. I told him, you still need to becareful because people can follow you home.

No idea what happened to him. Basically stopped using P2P since then and just mined the coins.

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Quote from: btc_angela on November 11, 2018, 10:53:43 PM

Quote from: thuthanh on November 11, 2018, 10:51:11 PM

You should be more careful about your account security. Can not trust anyone especially women, computer and phone need a separate password, using 2FA password will be safe for you.

Lmao. Thanks for s**t an giggles about your comment. Grin

. I guess everyone's weakness is a woman including in cryptoverse. But the moral lesson is not to trust anyone, not even your wife or your nurse or your neighbour. Grin

Lol I just barely feel that there's a discrimination on the word especially.
So yeah he should just marry his computer and phones and more likely he's just an easy guy that when a woman and flirt him he'll easily gave his private keys. Ok, I'm just joking. Grin

While the question is, did the real owner had his $450k back to him? I bet that woman already transferred it in a hardware wallet and swallow it.

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Quote from: prashadraj205000 on November 07, 2018, 10:49:00 PM

A 23-year-old woman was arrested by the police over the theft of $450,000 in ripple, the cryptocurrency. This incident took place in New South Wales, Australia.

The victim reached out to the investigators saying that his account had been hacked the month before. He said that his account was inaccessible for a couple of days back in January.

When the man checked his account after re-gaining access, he found that his cryptocurrency account was also compromised, leaving almost zero balance in the account.

http://coindelite.com

I wonder how that account was stolen or hacked so that it can be prevented as well as the platform of the account. I can also think that the account maybe was compromised by a former lover as revenge or gold digging lol. Maybe I'll just google the direct link to know more of the detail.

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Quote from: thuthanh on November 11, 2018, 10:51:11 PM

You should be more careful about your account security. Can not trust anyone especially women, computer and phone need a separate password, using 2FA password will be safe for you.

Lmao. Thanks for s**t an giggles about your comment. Grin

. I guess everyone's weakness is a woman including in cryptoverse. But the moral lesson is not to trust anyone, not even your wife or your nurse or your neighbour. Grin

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You should be more careful about your account security. Can not trust anyone especially women, computer and phone need a separate password, using 2FA password will be safe for you.

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Quote from: TrumpD on November 10, 2018, 11:02:45 AM

Quote from: Lighthouze on November 10, 2018, 10:15:45 AM

Theft in crypto isn't limited to any gender it's become obvious.

There are a lot of tech savvy females out there. The market might be dominated by men, but this is gradually changing. Back to the story, there are more funds stolen in FIAT daily that dwarfs losses in crypto. Crypto is generally safer.

Comparing out stolen FIAT and Crypto we would really able to see the difference but we know that crypto isn't really fully adopted
that's why its understandable on having that way. Generally, users do really have the full responsibility on take care of our
assets by means of security we should take it seriously on all precautionary measures. One single mistake can really mess up all the situation.

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Quote from: TrumpD on November 10, 2018, 11:02:45 AM

Quote from: Lighthouze on November 10, 2018, 10:15:45 AM

Theft in crypto isn't limited to any gender it's become obvious.

There are a lot of tech savvy females out there. The market might be dominated by men, but this is gradually changing. Back to the story, there are more funds stolen in FIAT daily that dwarfs losses in crypto. Crypto is generally safer.

When it comes money there is no gender, sad to say that we all need that money but not on that way, that girl is so greedy stolen account with crypto just to have a money. Well, the problem is the holder you must know how to protect your fund inside your wallet, if possible happen need to double lock your account you must do it because even who they are but when it comes financial it surely grabs even in a shady way.

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Quote from: Lighthouze on November 10, 2018, 10:15:45 AM

Theft in crypto isn't limited to any gender it's become obvious.

There are a lot of tech savvy females out there. The market might be dominated by men, but this is gradually changing. Back to the story, there are more funds stolen in FIAT daily that dwarfs losses in crypto. Crypto is generally safer.

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Theft in crypto isn't limited to any gender it's become obvious. Seems to me like the accused is known to the owner of that wallet or may be not. But ultimately, I'm glad she's been apprehended and will face the full wrath of the law. Security has be taken more seriously by crypto enthusiasts. You are responsible for your own safety and that of your assets.

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I'm not really sure how they caught the woman unless victim knows her. Perhaps he trusted her at some point and when she got his trust and confidence, the woman slowly snoop at the unsuspecting victims cell phone that's why she was able to swept the mans account.

Again, this is a lessons for everyone not to blindly trust because you don't know who you dealing with. But we're glad that justice has been served and hope that the old man can get his money back through restitution.

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That's good news, thieves can be caught too, even though it's very difficult to catch hackers. We must be more careful in maintaining our account. Use a second password like Google Authenticator. This can be a lesson for bitcoiners.

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It just shows how careless people are in general, hence hacks and scams will always be around unfortunately. This is probably one of the reasons why bitcoin hasn't reached mass adoption yet, as securing a 12-24 word seed would be too much for your everyday person. Some people can't even memorize their social media passwords. It seems like every few weeks I always read an incident on Reddit whereas a person lost like half a million dollars worth of crypto because the person left all his funds on his exchange account and his/her account got hacked. People are careless.

Quote from: cindygirl on November 10, 2018, 04:50:07 AM

Can you link the actual news article? Crypto theft seems to be a hot thing lately, I guess that the majority is from phishing. Before long the Nigerian email spammers might transition to targeting crypto when they realize it will be a much better prospect than telling people their long lost Nigerian prince cousin has died and left them $1bn but they must first pay $1000 to access it Grin

the link to the actual article: https://coindelite.com/news/woman-arrested-for-450000-crypto-heist/

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Can you link the actual news article? Crypto theft seems to be a hot thing lately, I guess that the majority is from phishing. Before long the Nigerian email spammers might transition to targeting crypto when they realize it will be a much better prospect than telling people their long lost Nigerian prince cousin has died and left them $1bn but they must first pay $1000 to access it Grin

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Yes its happening and people need to be more aware or conscious of security,
personally and with their wallets. I wonder about the guys security level that
he was done out of $450,000?

Anyway for those asking if there are women involved in crypto,
this case answers the question!!!

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People are really going all out with this crypto theft thing. First I heard a Turkish gang managed to steal crypto from people with sim swapping stuff, than Thai brothers stole from some Finnish investor, now I see some women stole a lot of crypto.

These are not good news for crypto in general because it both shows how much in danger crpto can be if not properly stored and you can lose a lot of money if you are not careful which makes people invest into traditional stuff like stocks because they are protected better or worst it shows that a lot of thieves are aiming towards stealing crypto because they believe in their minds if you steal crypto its less of a crime than stealing fiat currencies.

In any of those cases we need to increase security approach towards crypto and we need cops to keep on protecting people with crypto.

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A 23-year-old woman was arrested by the police over the theft of $450,000 in ripple, the cryptocurrency. This incident took place in New South Wales, Australia.

The victim reached out to the investigators saying that his account had been hacked the month before. He said that his account was inaccessible for a couple of days back in January.

When the man checked his account after re-gaining access, he found that his cryptocurrency account was also compromised, leaving almost zero balance in the account.

http://coindelite.com

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