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0 pointsicedistilled5y ago0 comments

I'm a little unclear, is the following correct?.

So basically rando's are sending famous people bitcoin because the famous people tweeted "send us $$ and we'll send you double back"?

And somehow the rando's haven't heard of the hack. Is this what's happening? Like are random people seriously sending them bitcoin? Or is it some weird form of money laundering?

Although since that's very weird behavior even if there was no hack, I suppose I'm not too surprised that those people sending the coin haven't heard of the hack.

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flamtap5y ago

I find myself confused by this as well, surely people who are sufficiently technically sophisticated to own bitcoin won’t fall for “I’ll send you bitcoin if you send me yours first”?

AgentME5y ago

I assume the victims aren't technically-sophisticated bitcoin owners. I had previously told a family member that I had a little bit of cryptocurrency, and then a few months ago they messaged me asking how to buy some bitcoin. I prodded them a bit, and it turned out that they had seen a scam somewhat like today's. I was able to stop them and explain the scam. Presumably if they hadn't asked me, they might have figured out how to buy some on their own and then sent it to the scammer.

rorykoehler5y ago

My Uber driver in Sydney told me he was converting all his money into crypto because he thought the FIAT system was gonna crash. He was not technical. Lots of semi tech literate crypto people out there.

blaser-waffle5y ago

That's like the Kennedy-shoe-shine-boy thing. Kid on the street starts asking Papa Kennedy about some hot stocks he heard of and Kennedy realizes everything is wayyy too overheated and pulls out. Market implodes a little while later, and Joe is able to buy up whatever he wants.

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nyolfen5y ago

receiving bitcoin on a wallet advertised on hacked accounts does not seem like a very effective mode of money laundering, imho

jjeaff5y ago

It's reverse money laundering! Take legit money and dirty it by faking a scheme where it was stolen due to a scam.

gspr5y ago

Money smudging? :-)

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