The FBI is reportedly trying to track down the people who used a common crypto airdrop scam to swindle Tether taken as part of a current drug investigation.
first reported on a warrant put out by the FBI investigating the scam. Those funds were stored in a Trezor crypto wallet, a more secureexchange-based wallet. The funds were further secured inside a “secure facility.” However, since all transactions are public on the blockchain, a scammer noticed when the DEA sent a test amount of $45.36 in Tether to a wallet owned by the U.S. Marshals.The alleged scammer then performed what’s known as an airdrop scam.
fraudsters looking at crypto addresses might get lucky with a quick phishing attack, as they did here.
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