The FBI confiscates Bitcoin from foreign fraudsters who are spending as US criminal prosecution officers-featured
The FBI confiscates Bitcoin from foreign fraudsters who are spending as US criminal prosecution officers-featured
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that Bitcoin has confiscated millions of dollars from foreign fraudsters who are targeting older people. The fraudsters were members of US criminal prosecution authorities and made the victims to transfer money to "safe storage".
The FBI says it has confiscated Bitcoin from fraudsters abroad
The US prosecutor for the Connecticut district and the incumbent special agent of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced on Friday that Bitcoin and other digital assets were confiscated in connection with a fraudulent system against older people. They detailed:
An investigation of a fraud program that aims at victims in need of protection has led to the loss of around 151 bitcoins and other digital assets.
The case is examined by the FBI, the US Secret Service and the US Marshals service. At the time of writing this article, the value of the allegedly confiscated Bitcoin was around 3.5 million US dollars.
The fraud, which took place around October 2020, were involved in people from abroad who were the guidelines for being members of US criminal investigation authorities. They aimed at “endangered victims, including the US citizens of the first generation and the elderly,” said the authorities. By phone calls, they informed the victims that their identity had been compromised. After gaining the victim's trust, the fraudsters asked for money transfers to "secure" with the promise to repay the money plus interest. The announcement details:
As soon as foreign persons had access to the victim's money, they transferred the money through several bank accounts and converted the money in digital currency in the form of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
"Investigators of the law enforcement followed the victim's money through the various accounts and identified a digital wallet with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies that had been bought with the victim's money," added the announcement. The authorities found that the foreign fraudsters are still at large.
The US public prosecutor's office was awarded "a civil arrest warrant to confiscate assets for the digital wallet", according to the announcement and leads to:
The US public prosecutor's office applied the civil assets because the digital assets were the proceeds from wire fraud.
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