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Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support (https://bsky.app)

24 points by unforgivenpasta 1 day ago | 12 comments | View on ycombinator

pants2 about 21 hours ago |

It's unbelievable to me that someone managed to accumulate that much Bitcoin but fall for the most basic scam in the book. This makes me sad.

arcastroe about 19 hours ago |

> Around $700,000 of the stolen assets were frozen thanks to intervention by a security firm called ZeroShadow

This represents only a small portion of the stolen funds. But my understanding was that the holder of the keys owns the crypto. How can the funds get frozen?

gaanbal about 15 hours ago |

is there a market to secure the crypto of rich but stupid people like this? all I have to do is not share the seed phrase, no brainer

renewiltord about 21 hours ago |

Me, transferring my fund’s money somewhere and claiming it got stolen: oh yes, boss, they deepfaked you on video and said Do Kwon was coming to put hardware wallet in my bum; I had to give it to them

moralestapia about 21 hours ago |

Dangerous game to play.

People get unalived for way less than this.