Cryptocurrency crime in Netherlands.

[kryptqnick]

I strongly condemn such illegal things on crypto market. Such kind of incidents are only lowering down the reputation of cryptocurrencies in general. The criminals get the benefit of the privacy factor inbuilt in crypto and usually gets away with their wrongdoing.

I am happy at least here police have been able to identify them and brought them under justice. No criminals should be left alone in crypto space! Common people usually try to avoid dirty water.

I totally agree with that. Contrary to popular belief, the crypto community is full of people that care about doing the right thing and do their best to fight scam. It's great that some governments are taking their side here as well by distinguishing scam and legit crypto business (they could just look in the other direction and say it's all shady). Crypto reputation is still probably quite bad in the eyes of people who barely know what it's about, so while news of such crypto scams might contribute to the wrong opinion, it's still necessary to clean the space. Congrats to the police, even if it's an old case like stompix says.

[suzanne5223]

I strongly condemn such illegal things on crypto market. Such kind of incidents are only lowering down the reputation of cryptocurrencies in general. The criminals get the benefit of the privacy factor inbuilt in crypto and usually gets away with their wrongdoing.

I am happy at least here police have been able to identify them and brought them under justice. No criminals should be left alone in crypto space! Common people usually try to avoid dirty water.

I totally agree with that. Contrary to popular belief, the crypto community is full of people that care about doing the right thing and do their best to fight scam. It's great that some governments are taking their side here as well by distinguishing scam and legit crypto business (they could just look in the other direction and say it's all shady). Crypto reputation is still probably quite bad in the eyes of people who barely know what it's about, so while news of such crypto scams might contribute to the wrong opinion, it's still necessary to clean the space. Congrats to the police, even if it's an old case like stompix says.

I hate this kind of situation cause it will only give some people that hate crypto currency the chance to talk more and this remind me the Coincheck heist scam which somehow affected crypto user level in Japan but i read later this year that two suspect are arrested which is good.

probably they are part of the people that do send a telegram message targeting people that use crypto to sign up and receive huge bonuses on exchange platforms that they imitate. This is really good news that the police have arrested them at least it will sound a warning to others that are involved in any shady things 

They seems to be among the group scamming people through the telegram using exchange support and investment strategy.

[MCobian]

Typosquatting scam is a crime that is quite popular in the internet world. Therefore typosquatting scam is not only the cryptocurrency user
be a victim, but other e-currency users can also be victims such as paypal, perfect money, skrill, neteller, etc. Moreover, the 6 scammers
who have been caught are very professional, it can be seen from the number of victims reaching 4000 people in 12  different countries.
This includes major crimes in my opinion, I appreciate the police who managed to arrest them all. I recommend starting now more be careful
when accessing websites, check carefully the websites we visit. If we feel transferred to websites that we don't know, just close the website.

[nomenclatur]

Six people were arrested in the Netherlands and the UK over a $27 million "typosquatting" scam, which involved making a fake website to gain access to user Bitcoin wallets.

5 man and 1 woman got arrested with warrant by the policeman at their homes Charlcombe, Lower Weston, and Staverton (UK), and Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Netherlands). They are really proffesional on accessing others account, there are many affected at least 4,000 victims in 12 countries and it still growing.

“The investigation relates to typosquatting, where a well-known online cryptocurrency exchange was ‘spoofed’ – or recreated to imitate the genuine site – to gain access to victims’ Bitcoin wallets, stealing their funds and login details.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/six-arrested-in-connection-with-27m-typosquatting-scam
Good thing is that, they had already caught those six people because if that thing does not happen, the number of being affected by the scam will grow continuously. That is how expert hackers and scammers are.

So always be careful when visiting and trying some unfamiliar websites, always do research about it and read some reviews to assure yourself that it is legit.

crime in any way bound to be caught even if a criminal was using the wallet bitcoin to store the results of their crimes makes the fake website a ploy to gain access to the wallet of the victim is a fraud extraordinary cases like this should continue in the process according to the law in the country Netherlands. swindler must the in-law weighing perhaps because many victims are exposed to their scam.

[Velkro]

That is how expert hackers and scammers are.

Hackers hack computer systems for knowledge and fun. Not for profit or damage they can cause.
These were just filthy scammers. Bitcoin is early stage and when there is bubble growing huge masses of non-technical people coming in.
They often fell victim sadly.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

Scammers should be in jail. People still believe in fishing..

Scammers like these should be really behind bars, but mostly it is very hard for them to be traced and to be caught because they are also smart from hiding and stealing other peoples money.

These are the reasons why it is hard for us to convince or invite other countries to used and legalize cryptocurrency because they know that it is mostly being used in illegal activities such as scams, frauds, etc. Illegal activities like these are really ruining bitcoin's reputation, that is why they are still people who are afraid to invest in crypto.

[bitbunnny]

That is how expert hackers and scammers are.

Hackers hack computer systems for knowledge and fun. Not for profit or damage they can cause.
These were just filthy scammers. Bitcoin is early stage and when there is bubble growing huge masses of non-technical people coming in.
They often fell victim sadly.

I can't agree with that. For majority of hackers the motive is money. What do you think, what they live from and how they finance their activities? Yes, some do that for fun or even for politics or ideology but many are motivated by material goods. Bitcoin is not exception and it's very convenient because it's not so easy to trace it and despite it's not the same as on the begininig it still has a great deal of anonimity.

[Lorence.xD]

This is a big news regarding cyber crimes, making people aware that there are scams like this helps in creating general awareness that prevents further victims of this kinds of scam, not only does it make people aware but also the authorities and the technologies that they use for apprehending offenders is catching up to the standards real fast when it comes to cyber crime. Spoofing can be a really dangerous because websites can be easily duplicated, investing in it is requires large amounts of funds and risk to make the spoofed website more convincing, we can't blame people for falling for it though because they might be long time clients in the website and they trust it so much that they do not see something strange. The thing that we can do as an individual is spreading information about this kind of cyber crimes to as many people as much as you can, nothing beats being knowledgeable.

[Mulann2]

I strongly condemn such illegal things on crypto market. Such kind of incidents are only lowering down the reputation of cryptocurrencies in general. The criminals get the benefit of the privacy factor inbuilt in crypto and usually gets away with their wrongdoing.

I am happy at least here police have been able to identify them and brought them under justice. No criminals should be left alone in crypto space! Common people usually try to avoid dirty water.

I also hate those people who use cryptocurrency for bad things, those people who use their knowledge just to gain access on the wallet of person is really bad, every money of a person has made because of his or her hardwork so it is really disappointing if this has stolen by someone.

It is inevitable, crypto is associated with bad things and scam activities so why won't it be use in that area? 99% of altcoin are scam that should tell you something, to many people, crypto is a quick money grab space is the reason why we have so many scam project, hackers and the likes, and thanks to the authority they were caught, this also tell you that we still need regulated bodies for this space to work, those who are clamoring for decentralization don't have any idea what it will bring.

[hulla]

Reading through the OP article link and i find out that the issue happen a couple of weeks back but is good that that theft were catch by the authority.

I strongly condemn such illegal things on crypto market. Such kind of incidents are only lowering down the reputation of cryptocurrencies in general. The criminals get the benefit of the privacy factor inbuilt in crypto and usually gets away with their wrongdoing.

I am happy at least here police have been able to identify them and brought them under justice. No criminals should be left alone in crypto space! Common people usually try to avoid dirty water.

I also hate those people who use cryptocurrency for bad things, those people who use their knowledge just to gain access on the wallet of person is really bad, every money of a person has made because of his or her hardwork so it is really disappointing if this has stolen by someone.

Hackers usually stole people money and Cryptocurrency is even more easier to be stolen if one is little bit careless. These crimes wont be stopped, we have to protect our accounts.

You're right when yoh said the issue of hacker stealing from people wont stop but i want you to understand 40% of those people who are hacker victims are care less and it was human errors that led to most people been hacked.

[gundala]

I really salute the police who succeeded in revealing this cybercrime case. Moreover, this is a transnational crime and many victims. It is not easy to handle cases like this, moreover, cryptocurrency tends to anonymity.

Taking advantage at the expense of others is not commendable. Hacking cases like this can worsen the layman's view of cryptocurrency.
Basically, hackers always take advantage of every opportunity and carelessness of the wallet owner. Nothing is really safe on the internet, even if we implement multiple security, when we are careless, it will be exploited by hackers.

Hackers hack computer systems for knowledge and fun. Not for profit or damage they can cause.
These were just filthy scammers. Bitcoin is early stage and when there is bubble growing huge masses of non-technical people coming in.
They often fell victim sadly.

What?
Are you serious? some hackers use their expertise to harm others. That's a pity, it's not fair.

[Lanatsa]

Six people were arrested in the Netherlands and the UK over a $27 million "typosquatting" scam, which involved making a fake website to gain access to user Bitcoin wallets.

5 man and 1 woman got arrested with warrant by the policeman at their homes Charlcombe, Lower Weston, and Staverton (UK), and Amsterdam and Rotterdam (Netherlands). They are really proffesional on accessing others account, there are many affected at least 4,000 victims in 12 countries and it still growing.

“The investigation relates to typosquatting, where a well-known online cryptocurrency exchange was ‘spoofed’ – or recreated to imitate the genuine site – to gain access to victims’ Bitcoin wallets, stealing their funds and login details.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/six-arrested-in-connection-with-27m-typosquatting-scam
Good thing is that, they had already caught those six people because if that thing does not happen, the number of being affected by the scam will grow continuously. That is how expert hackers and scammers are.

So always be careful when visiting and trying some unfamiliar websites, always do research about it and read some reviews to assure yourself that it is legit.

Great news even though even though this is just a small number but at least they have reduced out those scammers out there that do create phishing sites to scam out people.
Mimicking site specially exchangers is nothing new and the reason why people getting scammed continuously because they were careless enough not to search up everything
and just proceed without any caution and just realize that theyve done something wrong when they already lost up money.DYOR is been highly recommended but people
do still continue to commit the same mistake all over again and again.

[meanwords]

So always be careful when visiting and trying some unfamiliar websites, always do research about it and read some reviews to assure yourself that it is legit.

I think that's not the point because the scammers are copying another legit website which I think people have already done researched in and that is how people was getting fooled. This is just one of those classic phishing. One people should look into is the credentials of the website and if the certificate is legit. That is how people will know if that is a fake website or not. Also, always save your website so you won't get fooled.

[fiulpro]

It is not uncommon to find people like that out in the world just trying to get money out from the people who do not know much about the matter.
Unfortunately it is not just the case of cryptocurrencies , it is the case of everything , therefore we cannot just put the blame on cryptocurrencies as a whole , It is we , who need to have a good knowledge and practice safe buying and selling over the internet .
The world is a crazy place if you show them you can be taken advantage of you will be taken advantage of .
Just be knowledgeable before doing something like that , don't just buy and sell Bitcoins and others cryptocurrencies through third parties when you can might as well do it by yourself , that is why it is decentralized.

[Sanugarid]

So always be careful when visiting and trying some unfamiliar websites, always do research about it and read some reviews to assure yourself that it is legit.

I think that's not the point because the scammers are copying another legit website which I think people have already done researched in and that is how people was getting fooled. This is just one of those classic phishing. One people should look into is the credentials of the website and if the certificate is legit. That is how people will know if that is a fake website or not. Also, always save your website so you won't get fooled.

Just for a count they are not copying other's website, they are simply altering the names of brand so it would look very much alike to the original one on which I think gullible people are always prone to falling into. This is a classic phishing scam that's why companies now are not just buying a single domain for their websites, they are also buying possible alteration of their website name. I haven't encountered being scammed by this kind of phishing website because I always use a bookmark in web pages.

[Skieleton]

Where the money is there and theft. I must have good equipment if I could track them down. The question is how did they come up? I bet they wanted to choose a gorilla. This page is a website but sometimes the administrator can't be trace

[TalkStar]

Six people were arrested in the Netherlands and the UK over a $27 million "typosquatting" scam, which involved making a fake website to gain access to user Bitcoin wallets.

A group of scammers (hackers) who born to live with illegal earning. Impressive investigation by UK & Dutch police and they got their success after a long investigation process. This strict attempt will definitely bring some relief for worldwide crypto users and specially for them who are relatively new in this field.        

“The investigation relates to typosquatting, where a well-known online cryptocurrency exchange was ‘spoofed’ – or recreated to imitate the genuine site – to gain access to victims’ Bitcoin wallets, stealing their funds and login details.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/portswigger.net/daily-swig/amp/six-arrested-in-connection-with-27m-typosquatting-scam

Every time these scammers mislead people by using well reputated exchange, wallet or other crypto related projects reputation. Specially similar looking phishing website is their real weapon. In most cases they make entry to users wallet through multiple phishing sites. Although people are getting aware about phishing websites but still many of us are not enough careful during web surfing.

In many cases some dishonest platform owners sell their users database to scammers which give them advantage to reach their target easily. Crypto currency is obviously a great invention for modern world generation but if you are not enough careful about your fund security then anything can happen.

[whyrqa]

I would like there to be more such situations and law enforcement agencies to arrest fraudsters around the world, and then we can hope for significant security of the cryptocurrency market and its purity from fraud.  if people are confident in the safety of their funds, they will be happy to study cryptocurrency and invest their money in it.  therefore, I only support any anti-fraud opportunities.

[Anish_Rocky]

Damn, this reminded me of a time I got scammed by a Dutch for 2 grand.

If only that shithead gets arrested too.

Same here, I also got scammed in Brussels, Belgium worth 25K USD. They are spoiling crypto industry.

[coinfinger]

Seriously, I don't know why people keep making this kind of mistake. Why is it that people don't check whether the site they are creating an account on is legit or not? There are lots of scammers out there and this is no longer a new thing. These ones have been caught, but are they the only ones? No they are not, there are still a lot of them out there doing the same and they will not all be caught, so this will continue.

It's up to the people to learn how to avoid these fake websites ,and they can do this by doing proper research before investing. Anyone that wants to create an account on any site should make sure that the website has the ‘https’ or padlock sign on the URL, if not, then you should proceed with care. Do your research and look for the right URL to the website.