‘I lost £325k in a crypto scam – I was fooled by the fraudster’s blue tick on X’
24-04-2024 15:00 via inews.co.uk

‘I lost £325k 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 £325,000 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 &
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