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Man loses $230M crypto fortune after falling for scammers' plot

Mark Frauenfelder
Oct 23, 2024
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In just 90 days, a pair of young scammers went from plotting in Discord chats to living in multi-million dollar mansions, thanks to the largest cryptocurrency theft from a single victim in U.S. history. The accused fraudsters, Jeandiel Serrano, 21, and Malone Lam, 20, posed as technical support staff from Google and Gemini C…

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