A familiar Alabama pair was taken from thousands of dollars after answering a phone call from a Bitcoin scammer who occurred as a federal agent.
Dale Brown lost $ 13,000 last week after he had fallen victim to the Conman using the controversial currency.
She said that the test started when she answered a phone call from a man who identified himself as a federal agent.
The scammer convinced Dale that her identity had been endangered in drug actions and that she had to help their research by moving all her money to a Bitcoin account.
“The scammer was so scared and so terrified of the drug gear, and he said they were watching me 24 hours a day and all these things,” Dale said.
With the scammer on the phone, Dale went to her bank to record the money and was then led to a Bitcoin money machine in Decatur.
“She didn't want her name to be associated with drugs, and they just operated on her possible fault; I think they tried to feel her guilty or stupid, “her husband, Charles Brown, told the local newsstation.
“They encouraged her to remove money from our savings and payment account and place them in a Bitcoin machine.”
Dale (left) and Charles (Right) Brown lost $ 13,000 last week after he had fallen victim to a Conman using the controversial currency
The scammer convinced Dale that her identity was endangered in drug actions and that she had to help their research by moving all her money to a Bitcoin account
The scammer then sent her a QR code to open a Bitcoin account where she has deposited the $ 13,000 that she can never get back.
“My best friend in Florida had to tell me that you didn't do anything wrong,” said Dale. “She said it is nothing that we could have helped because they played on my emotions.”
The browns experience is just one of the many Americans who have fallen victim to more and more often occurring cryptocurrency scams.
In February, a man from Alabama was guilty of hacking the X account of the SEC to post a crypto fraud.
Eric Council Jr., 25, admitted that he hacked the social media account of the SEC and posted a fake message in the name of the then chairman Gary Gensler.
The message wrongly claimed that the SEC BTC Exchange had approved treated funds, so that the value of Bitcoin (BTC) was temporarily increased by more than $ 1,000.
The council and his co-sameners managed to access the sec via a SIM swap.
A SIM -Swap refers to the fraudulent manner process the inducing of a mobile telephone carrier to re -assign a mobile phone number of the legitimate subscriber or SIM card from the user to a SIM card controlled by a criminal.
With the scammer on the phone, Dale (photo) went to her bank to withdraw the money, and was then led to a Bitcoin money machine in Decaturate
Her husband, Charles (photo), believes that the Conman manipulates his wife to make her feel guilty or stupid
The browns experience is just one of the many Americans who have fallen victim to more and more often occurring cryptocurrency scams
As part of the scheme, Council used an ID card printer to create a fraudulent ID with the information obtained from a Genler that he from his fellow samenwerslers.
He used the fake ID to occur as the access to the phone number of the Genler to unlock the sec account.
The co-samen welder's co-sample subsequently had access to the account and placed in the name of the SEC chairman.
Council received a payment of $ 50,000 in Bitcoin from his henchmen for his role.
In March, President Donald Trump made a dramatic U-turn about a 'critical industry' that he once described as 'a scam'.
He announced the names of five cryptocurrencies that he expects to include in a new American strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies, which the market value of each nails.
The announcement marks a complete reversal in Trump's thinking about the industry he shared his frustration in 2021 by describing Bitcoin as a “scam” that influences the value of the US dollar.
“Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” Trump said in June of that year. “I don't like it because it's another currency that competes against the dollar,” while he adds that he wanted the dollar to be “the currency of the world.”
Last month, Trump said in a position of Truth Social that his executive order of January on digital assets would now create a stock of currencies, including Bitcoin, Ether, XRP, Solana and Cardano. The names had not been announced before.
More than an hour later, Trump added: “And, of course, BTC and ETH, as other valuable cryptocurrencies, will be central to the reserve.”
