My Adventures as a Crypto Bounty Hunter : Dumbest Scammers Edition Part4

As always I'm happy to share the funny things that I encounter while I'm on my missions as a crypto bounty hunter.

The Rookie

While working on behalf of a client, I encountered a scammer who managed to steal 23.03 ethereum (Around 42k).

My client fell for a new scam which I had never encountered before, where the scammer had a address which was almost an exact match as one of my client's, the scammers who had impersonated an investment platform sent 0.5 ethereum to one of his wallets (fake profits) and told him to transfer the 0.5 + his other funds to address they provided which matched the first characters and last characters of his other wallet, he then proceeded unknowingly to send all his funds to the scammers wallet.

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On the blockchain side, the scammer sent the majority of the funds to Tornado cash (a popular ethereum mixer) via 2 transactions of 10 ethereum each and 2 transaction of 1 ethereum each to launder them, this is usually a problem since they can leave the funds there for years without you knowing if they cashed out or not. By mistake or just by divine dumbness (which I have no idea) they accidently sent one of the transaction of 1 ethereum to a wallet associated to them, and from there I was able to find the Binance Exchange address they used to cash out all the funds. Since we are not talking about hundred of thousands of dollars, the authorities are a bit slowers this time, but we are working to serve these perpetrators some Queasy Justice.

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Lastly, for those who use Tornado cash for the sole purpose of privacy, just don't. It's not only heavly monitored (Ips and transactions) the exchanges freeze any funds automaticly that come from tornado cash.

This job is very satisfatory as I'm able to earn income helping people, but the dark side of my job is for every victim I help I find hundreds that were scammed in the exact same way by the same perpetrators and I'm unable to contact any of them, from small rings to organized crime you can find scams that launder over 50 million USD's, is just sad to think how many people have lost everything due to them.

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As always Stay Safe and Freak the Scammers

TLTR; Funny takes from my day to day life of a crypto bounty hunter

(I'm thinking in creating a youtube channel or opening a website, please give me some feedback)