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Bitcoin: Fake Elon Musk giveaway scam 'cost man £400,000'


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Bitcoin: Fake Elon Musk giveaway scam 'cost man £400,000'

By Joe Tidy
Cyber reporter 
Published 1 day ago

Sebastian will always remember the moment he lost £407,000, with equal parts anger and shame.

The night leading up to it had been otherwise forgettable.

He and his wife watched a series on Netflix, before she went to bed and left him on the sofa messing about on his phone.

Then he received a Twitter notification with news from Elon Musk.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56402378

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From full article: ""It is too easy to steal Bitcoin. All the exchange platform websites should know who their customers are and know if a particular wallet address is being used by thieves.""

No, Sebastian. The whole point of Bitcoin was to be anonymous!

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news articles be like:

Record amounts being stolen

Too easy to steal Bitcoin

 

expectation:

- russian hackers wrote sophisticated viruses and exploits to infect computers and steal cryptocurrency.

reality:

- rich idiots send their money themselves to the third party wallets. no "stealing"  whatsoever involved.

 

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