3 New Stories This Week
We dropped three new podcast episodes this week.
Here's a little taste of each.
Daren Li: Pig Butchering & The $73 Million Money Laundering Operation
She thought she made a friend over text. A wrong number that turned into months of conversation, a crypto investment that looked like it was working, and a loss she never saw coming. The man who ran the operation laundered $73 million through shell companies and crypto wallets. He pleaded guilty to all of it. Then he disappeared.
Betterment Got Got: The ShinyHunters Voice Phishing Attack
A Betterment employee got a phone call from IT on a Thursday afternoon. The voice was friendly. The request was routine. Three minutes later, hackers had access to the systems Betterment uses to talk to its customers. They used those systems to send a crypto scam from Betterment's own channels. Within two weeks, 1.4 million customer records were on the dark web.
Ronald Spektor: The Coinbase Scammer Who Stole $16 Million and Bragged About It
Ronald Spektor was 23, living with his dad in Brooklyn, stealing millions from Coinbase users with nothing but a phone call. He gambled away $6 million, bragged about it on Telegram under the handle @lolimfeelingevil, and thought no one could touch him. Then someone started following the money. And the blockchain never forgets.
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