[HN Gopher] Instagram influencer charged over duping followers o...
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       Instagram influencer charged over duping followers out of $2.5M BTC
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-07-10 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (cointelegraph.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (cointelegraph.com)
        
       | cryptogeek123 wrote:
       | what does $2.5 M BTC mean? 2.5 M dollars (don't care as long as I
       | wasn't duped) or 2.5M BTC (OMG!)?
        
         | jazzyjackson wrote:
         | Pretty sure the $ is left out where the unit is BTC, this guy
         | is small time but one of many.
        
         | jtsiskin wrote:
         | 2.5M BTC is 83 billion dollars
        
       | probably_wrong wrote:
       | Leaving the core of the article aside, I am fascinated by the FBI
       | Assistant Director-in-Charge officially saying "a quick search of
       | the Interwebs". Either he's really young or someone at the
       | CoinTelegraph has one of those XKCD auto-replace plugins [1] and
       | forgot to turn it off.
       | 
       | [1] https://xkcd.com/1288/
        
         | jffry wrote:
         | That phrase is directly quoted from a press release on the
         | official US Department of Justice website for the U.S.
         | Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York.
         | 
         | https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/popular-instagram-perso...
         | 
         | So I think somebody at the Justice department has an extension
         | like that installed.
        
         | karatinversion wrote:
         | The guy's page [1] says he joined the FBI in 1998 - in my mind
         | that puts him in his early to mid forties, maybe? Say he joined
         | at 23. The top urbandictionary entry for "interweb" dates from
         | 2003; our man is 28 and by no means incapable of taking on new
         | slang terms.
         | 
         | [1] https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-
         | offices/newyork/assista...
        
       | jazzyjackson wrote:
       | I was hoping this was crackdown on the recent influencer-coins,
       | but it's just basic wire fraud, offering to buy BTC over market
       | price and then just not wiring the money. Wonder how he expected
       | to get away with it.
        
         | paulpauper wrote:
         | crypto scammers on twitter and youtube have been getting away
         | with it for years. his mistake was tying it to his real
         | identity
        
       | tootahe45 wrote:
       | Should have sold them Bitcoin ( $33,461.37 ) sent out Bitcoin
       | cash ( $494.26 ). Technically sending them Bitcoin, just on a
       | different blockchain.
        
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