Betrüger posiert als britische Polizei, stiehlt Bitcoin 2,8 Millionen US -Dollar aus der Hardware -Brieftasche

tldr; A scammer posing as a senior UK police officer stole $2.8M in Bitcoin from a victim’s hardware wallet. Using fear tactics, the scammer convinced the victim to log into their cold storage device via a phishing link and input their seed phrase, enabling the theft. North Wales Police warned that legitimate officers or companies would never request seed phrases and urged vigilance against evolving scams targeting crypto holders. Authorities are investigating but recovering stolen funds remains challenging.

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*remains challenging* indeed. We can say 17 trillion times – NYKNYC – but people always find a reason to give it away.

No-one on this planet or any other planet or any universe needs your keys to „protect you“ from something.

> they are crafting sophisticated social engineering schemes

Nothing sophisticated about a Web page which asks the victim to enter their seed phrase

> the victim’s details may have been compromised in a data breach

The Ledger data breach was in 2020. There seems to be a recent increase in phishing scams targeting that customer list, contacting their victims by phone