A US federal court has reportedly ordered a SIM hijacker who allegedly stole crypto worth millions of dollars while in his teens seven years ago to surrender the proceeds of his crimes.
According to a report from The San Francisco Standard, Ahmad Wagaafe Hared stole digital assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), from cryptocurrency executives and investors living in Northern California alongside two co-conspirators in 2016.
At the time, Hared was reportedly residing in Tucson, Arizona.
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The report says that Hared and his co-conspirators would first get their target victims’ personally identifying information. They would subsequently contact wireless carriers and impersonate their victims to get the victims’ phone numbers transferred to a SIM card Hared and his co-conspirators controlled – a type of fraud known as SIM
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