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."
I have seen hacks and scams a lot of times and never been sad by them, but this case made me sad. Like really these hackers have no mercy why don't they just go after rich parties and leave the middle class alone. All of her savings which she worked for god knows how many years are gone just because she was not that tech savvy. I literally want to sue those hackers and the technology being used.
I was having this discussion with a member about how old people are easily being scammed by experts, but I did not read this news then, and now I realize how bad they are and how are they affecting the lives of people at this time. I hope the government of her country will help me not financially but to catch the fraudsters too.