$330M in #BTC stolen from US pensioner: one of the largest cryptocurrency scams in history

Hackers posing as call center employees tricked an elderly man into stealing 3,520 BTC, which he had held since 2017.

The stolen funds were quickly laundered through 300 wallets and 20 exchanges, with the majority of the funds exchanged for Monero, an untraceable privacy coin. Due to the massive exchanges and low liquidity, the price of #XMR surged 50%. theblock