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This 20-year-old committed one of the biggest person-to-person heists in history.
Meet Malone Lam.
In August 2024, he scammed someone of 4,100 BTC and then bought 31 supercars.
Here’s the simple trick he used:
This guy stole $3.3B and then hid it in a Cheetos popcorn tin.
Meet Jimmy Zhong.
In 2012, he found a loophole on the Silk Road website, so he drained 51,860 bitcoins.
For 9 years, he evaded the authorities, until he made one tiny, unbelievable mistake:🧵
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Court documents later revealed he had bought 31 supercars, a $2M watch, and rented several luxury apartments across LA and Miami.
He was arrested in Miami after arriving there by a private jet from Los Angeles.
A 20-year-old Singaporean, Malone Lam, and his accomplice, Jeandiel Serrano were arrested for stealing $230M in crypto from an anonymous man a few months ago.
How did it happen?
How did they get caught?
Malone went on an absolute spending spree with his share of the loot.
He hit the streets of Los Angeles and spent $569k in one night at a club!
He also gave away 5 Hermés Birkin bags to random ladies at the club.
The scammers used this software to gain access to his private keys and then stole up to 4,100 bitcoins.
This was worth $230M at the time.
They then laundered the stolen funds through various crypto exchanges and mixing services.
At just 19 & 17, these South African brothers executed one of the biggest bitcoin scams in history.
Meet Raees & Ameer Cajee.
In 2021, they stole 69,000 $BTC and then bought 2 supercars, a mansion, and citizenship in Vanuatu.
Here's how they pulled it off:
In 2023, this man disabled his ankle monitor and escaped from the FBI, with $230M.
Meet Horst Jicha.
He stole 1,774 $BTC & 28,589 $ETH from thousands of people worldwide and still roams free to this day.
Here's how he pulled it off:
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This transaction exposed his identity, linking him to the crime.
In November 2021, the authorities raided his home and found 50,676 bitcoins stored in a tiny computer in a Cheetos popcorn tin.
The scammers caused an "unauthorized Google account access" notification to be sent to the victim.
Days later, Malone called the victim pretending to be a Google employee, asking about the unauthorized access attempts.