Social Engineering Scam: Elderly US Investor Hit with a $330M Bitcoin Heist
TL;DR A scammer managed to steal $330 million in Bitcoin from a U.S. citizen using a carefully planned social engineering scheme. The attacker hid the funds
Bitcoin (BTC) is a digital currency created in 2009 by an unknown person using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer Bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries. Transactions are verified by network nodes through cryptography and recorded in a publicly distributed ledger called a blockchain
TL;DR A scammer managed to steal $330 million in Bitcoin from a U.S. citizen using a carefully planned social engineering scheme. The attacker hid the funds

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