By Isaac • October 16, 2026 8:45 pm •
A crypto scammer who made money by manipulating ordinary people has now landed on the wrong side of a remarkably sophisticated Bitcoin theft.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says one of the largest known victims of the tampered-hardware-wallet scheme lost more than 60 BTC, worth roughly $4.8 million at the time. The money had come from a so-called task scam, in which victims were paid to create fake sales or reviews before a supposed negative balance forced them to deposit their own cash to continue.
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Decrypt reports that the operator moved the proceeds into three separate hardware-wallet addresses on September 22. On October 9, each address was drained into the same destination wallet, which had already been
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