Belgian barber lies about being a successful crypto trader to impress pretty woman. Woman invites barber to spend weekend at her luxury flat. He walks into a wrench attack trap. Attackers are upset to learn he only holds £6.71 worth of cryptocurrency.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/gang-kidnapped-barber-they-mistook-for-crypto-billionaire-n0hgdshvm

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it sounds funny, but also very scary

Damn that’s kinda like how the US govt be lying about the wallets they hold

Darwinism at its finest.

so i guess decoy wallets really do work...

£6.71? It was £1B last week. How could I lose my Fartcoin fortune?

If someone is kidnapped by a gang, how can he prove he only holds £6.71 worth of cryptocurrency? Asking for a friend. 😅

Decoy wallets

Proof is tricky. I fear persuasion may cost a few lost finger(nail)s, or incredible acting skills!

plausible deniability "wallet"

Multiple decoy wallets.

One of them has to have enough to seem like it's your main stack.

A couple hundred $ at least.

And only give that wallet up right before they start torturing you.

Show as much fear as possible, piss yourself and have an emotional breakdown crying begging, be as pathetic as possible.

Otherwise they will just assume you're lying.

Death Penalty for Wrench attacks

diversity is our strength

Imagine getting ambushed over £6.71

interesting strategy.…

"retarted crypto bro gambling hustler doing shitcoins and losing everything" basically hiding in plain sight between all the other degens.

much more realistic than boating accidents or honeypot decoy wallets

Don't traders usually hold on exchanges? 🤔

in that case, wouldn't they force him to withdraw?

Maybe not, unless he would have told them that he does. He may just have showed balance of all the wallets on the phone, never had the exchange application installed and traded on his home desktop computer.

It is all just a speculation anyways.

Lol

That woman is not pretty 😂

That’s was 20 bitcoin in 2010

We all know you are the brain of this attack.

Not because he has some -few- cryptos.

But because he is a barber 😅

It is time to confess !

Plot twist this was his panic wallet. real wallet had a passphrase.

That’s one way to use a safe word on a date 🤣 👀

Underrated comment 😂

🎶 no, I don’t want no scrub, a scrub is a guy who can’t get no love from me 🎶 🤡

Bro is out here playing 4D chess. 😏😂🤙

hes either genius or very dump.

Crypto FTW!!