A Canadian teenager pleaded guilty in Miami to laundering $13M in stolen Bitcoin after impersonating Google support to drain a victim's wallet. The traffic stop that ended it started with a white Rolls-Royce.
On April 29, 2026, someone called a City of Aurora employee, said the right words in the right voice, and walked out with payroll money through the ACH system. The city had paid for the training that was supposed to stop this.
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.
A 19-year-old Canadian who overstayed his visa allegedly worked the phones while a Miami car-rental operator allegedly worked the laundry. Federal prosecutors say the call was the lock, and the wallets were the room behind it.
Brian Oliver, an 85-year-old Florida retiree, lost $200,000 to a fraud operation that built a fake world around him one screen at a time. The scam did not take his money. It convinced him to hand it over himself.