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Nope, Alexander Choi didn't disclose anything to the scammers during the call, Alexander is somewhat experienced in the industry, so he didn't do that. I have read from a few sources about this case and this is a very sophisticated scam, i believe the scammers are exploiting some form of vulnerability in video conferencing apps/platforms.
Abusing a zero day vulnerability in existing software, one which you have probably not discovered yourself, is not a Two days go by, and Alexander gets a notification on his phone that some crypto got transferred out of one of his wallets. He checked several wallets on his PC and noticed that each one had been emptied. In total, he claims that almost 150 different wallets and addresses got drained of all their coins.
150 wallets and all on the same device? I would not be surprised if he was advertising himself as a privacy and security expert, what an idiot. 
Similar but different scams are going around Telegram and Discord. They tend to offer several different and highly paid jobs in groups for testing out new games and other stuff. They are trying to catch anyone that may be interested whereas in this case it was a targeted scam.
Original archived Re: Crypto owner losses ≈ $1 million after fake job interview
Scraped on 08/09/2025, 12:19:10 UTC
Nope, Alexander Choi didn't disclose anything to the scammers during the call, Alexander is somewhat experienced in the industry, so he didn't do that. I have read from a few sources about this case and this is a very sophisticated scam, i believe the scammers are exploiting some form of vulnerability in video conferencing apps/platforms.
Abusing a zero day vulnerability in existing software, one which you have probably not discovered yourself, is not a "sophisticated scam". It is a low level hack. Two days go by, and Alexander gets a notification on his phone that some crypto got transferred out of one of his wallets. He checked several wallets on his PC and noticed that each one had been emptied. In total, he claims that almost 150 different wallets and addresses got drained of all their coins.
150 wallets and all on the same device? I would not be surprised if he was advertising himself as a privacy and security expert, what an idiot. Similar but different scams are going around Telegram and Discord. They tend to offer several different and highly paid jobs in groups for testing out new games and other stuff. They are trying to catch anyone that may be interested whereas in this case it was a targeted scam.