⚠️BREAKING: Coinbase posted on X that Ron has been charged for stealing $16M+ through social engineering as Coinbase Support.

This appears to be the first time Coinbase has publicly acknowledged a specific threat actor who social engineered victims to steal cryptocurrency, sharing details of his arrest and an official press release.

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⚠️UPDATE: The victim who lost $50M in ETH after copying and pasting a malicious wallet address has sent an official on-chain message to the attacker.

A criminal case has been filed and all wallets linked to the theft are actively being monitored. The victim has also offered a $1M reward if the funds are returned.

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⚠️JUST IN: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong shared a mugshot of notorious caller “Ron,” who stole over $16M from Coinbase users.

Ron was one of the longest-running callers, stealing $16M+ across 100 victims via phishing and social engineering. Following his arrest, authorities only recovered $500K of the funds and placed him in jail with $1M bail.

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⚠️JUST IN: Notorious OGU member @shade has exit scammed 4 users for $250K+.

Shade has unlinked his username and moved the ~$250K into a freshly created wallet. Funds are expected to be routed and laundered to obfuscate tracing.

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⚠️JUST IN: Another victim lost $86,000 after copying the wrong address from a contaminated transfer history.

The victim sent a $10 test tx. Shortly after, a lookalike Ethereum address sent $0. After copy pasting the address, believing it was theirs, the victim sent the full $86,000 to the attacker.

As shown, the bottom two wallets match at the start and end but are different wallets.

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⚠️JUST IN: A crypto whale’s private key was compromised, with approximately $2.3M stolen.

Both of the victim’s wallet private keys were compromised, with $1.8M and $500K stolen across two wallets. All funds have since been swapped to ETH and deposited into Tornado Cash.

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⚠️JUST IN: Binance founder CZ commented on recent address poisoning scams following a user losing $50M after copy pasting the wrong wallet address.

CZ stated this is a blockchain level issue, not a user error, and said wallets should automatically detect whether a receiving address is a known poison address and block the transaction before it is sent.

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⚠️JUST IN: A major U.S. food delivery provider, Grubhub, was exploited via a phishing email campaign promising to “double” users Bitcoin.

Grubhub users received emails and in app notifications directing them to send BTC to attacker controlled wallets, falsely claiming the funds would be returned at a 10x multiple.

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⚠️ BREAKING: Trust Wallet’s browser extension has been exploited, resulting in hundreds of users having their wallets drained.

Per ZachXBT, approximately $6M has already been stolen across hundreds of victims. If you are currently holding funds via the extension, it is strongly advised to withdraw immediately and move assets to a secure wallet.

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⚠️BREAKING: Home invaders who targeted a wealthy crypto investor in an IRL robbery have been sentenced to 45 years in prison.

The attackers posed as a DoorDash delivery to target an elderly victim and steal his cryptocurrency. They pleaded guilty and will serve 45 years in prison.

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