⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - He thought he would pocket €70,000 by selling Bitcoin. He left with... a suitcase full of counterfeit bills.

In Montpellier, a man decided to sell €70,000 worth of BTC and quickly found a buyer willing to pay him in cash.

The meeting was set in a hotel in the city. The buyer arrived with a suitcase full of neatly stacked bills.

The man then transferred the BTC, the transaction was validated, and everyone left.

But a few hours later, the seller opened the suitcase again to recount the money and realized that... all the bills were counterfeit.

According to a journalist from France 3 Occitanie, the fake buyers used very realistic imitations, to the point of deceiving the victim during the meeting.

The man immediately filed a complaint, and an investigation was launched for fraud and use of counterfeit currency.

Investigators are seeking to identify the group behind the trap: everything suggests that this is an organized scam, targeting individuals seeking to convert their cryptocurrencies into cash without going through official platforms.