{"id":3463,"date":"2024-11-29T06:50:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T06:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2024-11-29T06:50:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T06:50:15","slug":"apple-impersonators-drain-elderly-mans-account-in-crypto-fraud-feds-seek-1m-forfeiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3463","title":{"rendered":"Apple Impersonators Drain Elderly Man&#8217;s Account In Crypto Fraud, Feds Seek $1M Forfeiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Federal prosecutors in Cleveland are seeking forfeiture of nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency linked to a scam that drained an elderly Elyria man\u2019s life savings, highlighting the growing trend of sophisticated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/news\/legal\/24\/11\/42023632\/financial-crime-weekly-darknet-money-laundering-crypto-scams-invesco-pays-17-5m-sec-penalty\">crypto fraud targeting vulnerable investors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened<\/strong>: The victim lost $408,000 after scammers, posing as <strong>Apple Inc. <\/strong>support representatives, gained remote access to his computer in October 2023. The criminals transferred his funds through <strong>Tether<\/strong> (CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/\">USDT<\/a>), the largest stablecoin platform, to obscure the money trail, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/court-justice\/2024\/11\/elyria-man-loses-life-savings-in-cryptocurrency-con-feds-say.html\">according<\/a> to news publication Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p>The case marks the second time in two months that Cleveland prosecutors have pursued the seizure of &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/24\/11\/42238629\/apple-impersonators-drain-elderly-mans-account-in-crypto-fraud-feds-seek-1m-forfeiture\" alt=\"Apple\" impersonators drain elderly man account in crypto fraud feds seek forfeiture>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors in Cleveland are seeking forfeiture of nearly $1 million in cryptocurrency linked to a scam that drained an elderly Elyria man\u2019s life savings, highlighting the growing trend of sophisticated crypto fraud targeting vulnerable investors. What Happened: The victim lost $408,000 after scammers, posing as Apple Inc. support representatives, gained remote access to his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}