A former executive at the seventh-largest bank in the US just admitted to taking tens of thousands of dollars from a deceased customer’s account. Former PNC bank manager Lamont Hankins has pleaded guilty to stealing $60,181 from a customer who died years ago, reports Cleveland.com. Hankins started stealing the funds in late 2021, about six […]
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An elderly parent is reportedly devastated after scammers contacted him via email masquerading as his own daughter. Françoise Schorosch says the criminals said all the right things to her father online, perfectly mimicking the way she writes partially in German and partially in English, The Guardian reports. The style of scam has been dubbed the […]
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A victim who claims to have lost $1.7 million said a scammer called them claiming to be from Coinbase and sent emails that looked like they came from the crypto exchange.
At least three Coinbase users and one crypto user have reported being targeted by Coinbase-impersonating scammers in the past week, with one victim claiming to have been swindled out of $1.7 million.
Edge & Node co-founder Tegan Kline shared to X on July 7 an explainer from a “good friend” who had their self-custody wallet drained of $1.7 million a day prior after a scammer tricked them into sharing part of their seed phrase.
The victim said the scammer called claiming they were from Coinbase’s security team and sent the victim an email that appeared to be from Coinbase that verified the victim was “speaking to an official representative at Coinbase.”
