{"id":35607,"date":"2025-07-07T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35607"},"modified":"2025-07-07T20:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:16:52","slug":"nigerian-scammer-posing-as-trump-ally-steve-witkoff-stole-250k-in-crypto-from-one-political-donor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=35607","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Scammer Posing as Trump Ally Steve Witkoff Stole 250K in Crypto From One Political Donor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A Nigeria-based scammer posing as Steve Witkoff, a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, stole approximately $250,000 in crypto from a would-be political donor, according to a recent press announcement from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents, the scammer created a spoofed email address that closely resembled Witkoff\u2019s legitimate Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee email address, and was able to trick at least one donor into depositing $250,000 worth of USDT.ETH into the scammer\u2019s wallet. Though the scammer then took steps to launder their ill-gotten gains, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to recover and freeze 40,300 USDT.ETH, half of which was found in a Binance account in the name of Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a Lagos-based fraudster or \u201cyahoo boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office has moved to return the recovered funds to the victim. Over $210,000 in crypto sent to the scammer has not yet been recovered.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll donors should double and triple check that they are sending cryptocurrency to their intended recipient,\u201d U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said in a statement. \u201cIt can be extremely difficult for law [enforcement] to recoup lost funds due to the extremely complex nature of the blockchain. Nevertheless, my office and our law enforcement partners stand ready to go toe-to-toe with criminals and make victims whole.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/gazettengr.com\/fbi-pursues-lagos-yahoo-boy-for-defrauding-u-s-president-donald-trump-of-2025-inauguration-funds\/\">local<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pmnewsnigeria.com\/2025\/07\/04\/how-lagos-yahoo-boy-duped-u-s-president-donald-trump-of-2025-inauguration-funds\/\">media outlets<\/a>, U.S. officials are seeking a formal arrest warrant for Aigbokhan.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Witkoff and his son Zach have close ties to the Trump family\u2019s main crypto project, World Liberty Financial.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Binance and Tether both cooperated with the government\u2019s investigation, the DOJ said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigeria-based scammer posing as Steve Witkoff, a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, stole approximately $250,000 in crypto from a would-be political donor, according to a recent press announcement from the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Columbia. According to court documents, the scammer created [&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-35607","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\/35607","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=35607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}