THELOGICALINDIAN - A bitcoin banker who promised massive allotment by advance in his BitMEX armamentarium has allegedly fabricated abroad with added than 380000 in BTC in what appears to be an avenue scam
Bitcoin Scammer Drops Parting Joke
According to Twitter handle ‘stealthbomber21,’ a bitcoin banker with the moniker ‘hitsXBT’ has defrauded investors in his Bitmex $BTC fund. The doubtable con artisan assertive bodies to accelerate him their bitcoin to be ‘locked up’ for a aeon during which the declared bluff would barter with the bitcoin deposits, booty his commission, and acknowledgment the actual profits to the investors.
However, hitsXBT, who ahead went by the name ‘LÈON’, deleted all traces of his action both on Twitter and Telegram. According to stealthbomber21, the doubtable fraudster promised to allotment gain from a alleged ‘Xmas promo’ afore ablution his online presence.
A screenshot of aggregate by stealthbomber showed a wallet allegedly acceptance to hitsXBT with added than 53 bitcoins account over $380,000 at the accepted atom price. The declared scammer’s Twitter handle no best exists as at columnist time but stealthbomber letters that it had been afflicted to the angel beneath with the bulletin on the bio advice to: “that’s life, my darling.”
Some victims of the declared betray accept created a Telegram with 94 associates as at columnist time. All the wallet addresses angry to hitsXBT no best accommodate any bitcoin with the abounding annual balances confused to alien wallets.
Given the bearding attributes of the declared fraudster, the aboriginal footfall for the victims seems to be aggravating to ascertain hitsXBT’s absolute identity.
Naïve Crypto Owners Still Falling Prey to Elaborate Scams
Some commentators who responded to the adventure remarked that crypto owners were still accusable of artlessness which fabricated them prime candidates for actuality victims of such scams. Others, however, pointed out that acclaimed abstracts on ‘crypto-Twitter’ accustomed hitsXBT’s advance program.
Currently, the crypto-sphere is grappling with busy scams like Coinjer which operates application a around agnate apriorism as hitsXBT’s con. As ahead arise by Bitconist, crypto scams arise to be experiencing a awakening in 2019 abnormally with expectations of addition bang aeon for agenda tokens.
This year has already apparent the PlusToken betray abduct added than $3 billion account of bitcoin. Senior admiral of South Korean crypto barter Coinup bagged bastille sentences for their role in a $386 actor cryptocurrency scam. Delivering acumen at the time, the balloon adjudicator commented on the acquisitiveness and artlessness of investors attractive to get affluent quickly.
HEX appears to be the new affairs on the block already sending off anxiety bells. Bitcoinist will abide to adviser and affair warnings about these doubtable cryptocurrency scams.
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Images via Twitter @stealthbomber21, @walter_wyckoff.
