The wrench attacks will continue until folks stop carrying their life savings around in their pocket.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/american-tourist-london-loses-123k-31673388
Discussion
How would anyone know someone has stuff accessible on their phone. You’d have to drug all your passengers 😂
Considering how bad all his other decisions were, he probably blabbed at the bar but left that part out of the story.
He must have
Maybe a deep state heist
Not much money for deep state scale but would still be useful if you wanted to target an individual, just to take their money away
Haven't read much about this yet to try to guess though
“Jacob, who has a YouTube channel where he shares his travels”
He doesn't post a lot and never seems to talk about his money. https://youtube.com/@JacobRising
Lots of people brag about their crypto gains and holdings on social media.
This could have been an opportunistic crime, could also have been someone with terrible opsec.
Half in XRP plus everything on exchanges. What kind of "expert" at this over a decade has everything on exchanges?
This story is more reassuring than some of the others. Lot's of obvious mistakes that can be easily avoided.
You should still read the story to see what mistakes were made so you can improve your security decision making.
Maybe he was talking too much while he was in the bar? Talking too much about what he had, and someone within earshot called their Uber driver friend to do the deed?
If you don't fuck around, you don't end up finding out.
In a bitcoin world where almost everyone is assumed to own bitcoin the wrench attacks will probably increase
Learn how to use Liana to timelock your corn. It won't stop the $5 wrench attacks from happening, but it will prevent your corn if there was such an attack.
"Tourist fakes wrench attack, claiming "bad cigarette" drug, losses crypto". Yeah, I read the article but what a loser. #FAAFO