The Drug Enforcement Agency takes from one criminal enterprise and accidentally gives to another, via a common crypto scam.
The hacker who stole $55,000 in seized crypto from the DEA appears to have made hundreds of thousands in ether in just a few months.The Drug Enforcement Agency took from one criminal enterprise and accidentally gave to another, after falling for a common crypto scam.
Meanwhile, a scammer had been watching the blockchain and noticed when the DEA sent a test amount of $45.36 in Tether to the United States Marshals Service, as part of standard forfeiture processing. The scammer quickly set up a cryptocurrency address that matched the first five and last four characters of the Marshals account.
“It is yet another reminder of how important it is to verify everything and have further pairs of eyes confirm the transaction when large sums of money is involved...”Working with the FBI, the DEA determined the funds had been converted into ether - alongside bitcoin, one of the most popular kinds of digital money - and moved to a new wallet.
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