If you have to pay adoption fees in crypto, it's a red flag 🚩
A Hong Kong fashion executive lost 6 million Hong Kong dollars in a crypto scam while trying to adopt a kitten online.
On Wednesday, local authorities said that the 58-year-old woman believed she was adopting a 3-month-old kitten in Thailand from an online acquaintance in April last year.While the kitten was supposedly free to adopt, the woman was asked to settle a delivery fee in cryptocurrency. She then complied by opening a cryptocurrency account and sending bitcoin to the scammer's e-wallet.However, the fashion executive was told that the kitten had died while being transported to Hong Kong in mid-May.
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