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Poetic Justice: Scammer Shed $5 million in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves
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Chainalysis has revealed that a victim of last week’s Ledger theft was a scammer themself.
Key facts
- 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
- On Sep 22, the person behind the scam moved the proceeds into three separate Ledger addresses,” Chainalysis said
- 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
- Calling it one the most “sophisticated attacks” the digital asset industry has experienced, Ledger is yet to reveal how much money has been lost, but blockchain investigator Specter said $86 million
Summary
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. But the mastermind behind the task scam moved the stolen money to Ledger addresses which were then targeted by different scammers last week.