{"id":3235,"date":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2017\/12\/05\/scam-3-2-millions-bitcoin-gold-stolen\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:40:26","slug":"scam-3-2-millions-bitcoin-gold-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/scam-3-2-millions-bitcoin-gold-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Scam: $ 3.2 millions on Bitcoin Gold stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"
A fraud committed through Bitcoin Gold<\/a><\/strong> wallet managed to steal the equivalent of 3.2 million dollars, according to various reports.<\/span><\/p>\n The scam was perpetrated taking advantage of users\u2019 need of claiming their BTG tokens. Via a link placed in the official Bitcoin Gold website that redirected to the fraudulent MyBTGWallet site, users have to submit their private keys in order to claim their respective tokens.<\/span><\/p>\n By doing this, users reported that funds stored in their wallets were gone, just like the aforementioned website, which promised to allocated people\u2019s BTG if they sent their private keys.<\/span><\/p>\n Overall, an estimated of $ 3.2 million, divided in $ 3 million of Bitcoin, $ 107,000 of Bitcoin Gold, $ 72,000 of Litecoin, and $ 30,000 of Ethereum were stolen from those who trusted in MyBTGWallet.<\/span><\/p>\n Users did not suspect of any activity that could be a scam coming from that very same website, in part because of having Bitcoin Gold\u2019s support \u2013 by having in their website a link to their fraudulent frontpage) and for its code was open source.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n According to an analysis made by Reddit user Uejji<\/a><\/strong>, the website\u2019s code, hosted at GitHub, was changed just after the scam started. In fact, it did encode users\u2019 security seed in Base64 and stored them in its cookies, which was resubmitted to Google. It was in that very same moment that scammers could decoded them and use them to steal people\u2019s funds.<\/span><\/p>\n It seems that MyBTGWallet was created and managed by a user known as John Dass \u2013 there\u2019s no certainty of whether it is his real name or just a pseudonym \u2013. This person had a wallet that is related to that of the scammer, which prompt the possibility of being the same person, or just a victim as well.<\/span><\/p>\n