‘I lost £80k in a crypto scam – I was fooled by the fraudster’s blue tick on X’

A man has spoken of his devastation after losing nearly £80,000 in a cryptocurrency scam – after being fooled by an impersonator of a genuine financial company on X, formerly Twitter.Olivier Acuña, 61, from Kent, worked for technology firm IoTeX that paid his salary and bonus in its own tokens – an alternative to bitcoin – which he had let accrue over his two-year employment.
But when it came to withdrawing the substantial amount, he encountered a software issue &n