Prosecutors Detail Russians' Crypto Phishing Scheme In Forfeiture Suit
PANewsKR 2020-09-18 01:26:08
The two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through market manipulation and phishing.
Prosecutors detailed Danil Potekhin and Dimitrii Karasavidi's alleged heists, victims and target exchanges in a 30-page forfeiture complaint filed Wednesday against the pair's previously seized crypto funds.
Karasavidi and Potekhin allegedly "deployed" a series of bogus Poloniex, Gemini and Binance lookalike sites that duped unwitting users into sharing their login credentials, giving the hackers control of wallets.