Malone Lam and his friends allegedly stole $230,000,000 worth of cryptocurrency.
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So this guy is rich. I mean like $230 million rich. Because he stole it. And then he went wild. Now the guy's name is Malone. He's 20 years old and he's really into crypto. And one day in 2024, he and his buddies are all in a chat. And one of them is like, Hey bro, let's find someone who has millions of dollars in Bitcoin and scam them out of it. And Malone hears this idea and he's like, Hi.
And so they search around and they finally decide on a target, this seemingly random yet wealthy investor living in D.C. who we'll just call Investor. And so the guys deep dive and they get Investor's information and they get his phone number and they call him from a spoofed number pretending to be Google tech support like, Hello, sir.
Your personal accounts have been compromised.
Then afterwards, they call Investor from a different number and they say they're from his cryptocurrency exchange.
I'm calling to alert you that your account has been hacked.
And once investor believes he's been hacked, it's easy to convince him to reset his security information. Then the boys get him to share his screen, which exposes the private keys to his Bitcoin wallet. Once they get investors private keys, they use them to access his Bitcoin wallet and boom, Malone and his bros secretly transfer over 4,100 Bitcoin out of the account and over to themselves.
And at this time, 4,100 Bitcoin is worth around $230 million. $230 million. Oh, I gotta leave. And of course, Malone and his friends are like, holy shit. They can't believe this actually worked. And so they're freaking out and they're celebrating in the chat. And for some reason, one of their friends is recording the whole chat. We did it!
Oh my god! No way. Oh my god! No way.
Now, this recording of them celebrating is gonna be very important later. But whatever, right now, these guys are suddenly richer than they've ever imagined. Not only that, they're smart enough to know they gotta cover their tracks. Since every transaction on the blockchain is publicly viewable, they make all this really hard to track by splitting the coin into different accounts and
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