This story is truly heartbreaking, knowing that a 72-year-old woman lost her entire life savings and inheritance, totaling $224,000, to crypto scammers. They used a deepfake video of Christopher Luxon, the New Zealand Prime Minister, to lure her in. She got interested and responded, which is where things took a dark turn. A scammer, pretending to be Adam Manolas, who claimed to be an expert investment adviser, convinced her to open accounts with Easy Crypto and Binance. She thought her Bitcoin was safe in her Binance wallet, but instead, it was sent to an account controlled by the scammers. Once they emptied her savings, they even took funds that were meant for her grandchildren. In one of their last calls, she overheard him say, "This woman has no money."
It's painful to see how these scammers target older people, especially those who aren't tech-savvy and are more vulnerable to these tricks. I can't even begin to imagine how our granny feels after losing everything she worked for and inherited. Some might find it too much to handle and could even consider taking their own lives because of it. These scammers are truly cruel, and they deserve to rot in hell.
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Quite some bad news to start the day with. It's unfortunate that some people still have a better taste for people's hard earn money, rather than working for theirs. The 72 year old grandma never saw this coming, and I believe most 72 year old will likely fall for such scams, because it's a very common scam that I think mainly targets those that are far older. Though, I'm still surprise that scammers still uses deepfake video technic to scam people these days.
The damage has already been done, but if it's possible to track those funds back to any cex, then I really hope those criminals are arrested and brought to justice. I believe this news might probably get to the ears of someone in authority that can help the granny take up the matter, if only it's still very much traceable back to a cex.