A transnational call-center operation allegedly turned the oldest human instinct, the urge to protect a grandchild, into a script. The runners drove Ubers. The closers wore suits no one ever saw.
Federal prosecutors say a 19-year-old Canadian on an expired visa and his 28-year-old Miami co-defendant ran a $13M crypto theft operation built on phone calls. The crime scene was not a smart contract. It was a voice on the other end of the line.
Olena Oblamska called herself the goddess of Forsage and told investors the blockchain made fraud impossible. A federal indictment in Oregon says the code itself was the trap.
Federal prosecutors say Owe Martin Andresen sat on millions in administrator commissions from the shuttered Dream Market, then converted them to gold bars shipped to his door. The wallet he thought had gone quiet had been watched the whole time.
A federal indictment unsealed in the Northern District of California alleges three Tennessee men ran a violent home-invasion route through four California cities, targeting cryptocurrency holders and forcing one victim to transfer roughly $6.5 million in digital assets. The case is part of a global pattern security researchers now call wrench attacks.