The mom of my friend got scammed 7.3k$ from coinbase usin an app like teamviewer

[Latviand]

Did this woman trust an unknown person on the Internet to share personal data with him without knowing more information about him? I mean, identifying the man using the available data is easier than tracking Bitcoin addresses, which may require court papers to recover your money.
Regarding Bitcoin addresses, they will most likely end up in a central wallet, but without starting legal investigations, you cannot ask these services to recover her money.

That's probably what's happened, scammers are good at social engineering so I don't think that they had a hard time having to convince her to do this kind of thing. Also, isn't TeamViewer works like a remote access tool right? I think that's how they've got that person and has stolen her funds. Regards to the possibility of investigation, I don't think that even if there's one, it's unlikely that they're going to ever recover the money stolen, this is a syndicate in my opinion so you'll have a hard time finding the group or even arresting any of them since this happened online.

[Bob Gogh]

Did this woman trust an unknown person on the Internet to share personal data with him without knowing more information about him? I mean, identifying the man using the available data is easier than tracking Bitcoin addresses, which may require court papers to recover your money.
Regarding Bitcoin addresses, they will most likely end up in a central wallet, but without starting legal investigations, you cannot ask these services to recover her money.

That's probably what's happened, scammers are good at social engineering so I don't think that they had a hard time having to convince her to do this kind of thing. Also, isn't TeamViewer works like a remote access tool right? I think that's how they've got that person and has stolen her funds. Regards to the possibility of investigation, I don't think that even if there's one, it's unlikely that they're going to ever recover the money stolen, this is a syndicate in my opinion so you'll have a hard time finding the group or even arresting any of them since this happened online.

Yes, i think the same ...

[SmartGold01]

Op did you edited the address out of here as I can see there is no address from the op how do we know the address the scammer uses to scam your friends mom, although from your explanation it seems that the scammer uses mixer after receiving the money he mixed it out to different output address so that the transactions will be hard to trace from his end. But if i must know how did your friend mom suddenly develop passion and trust for unknown person over the internet and to send bitcoin to him without knowing the risk associated with sending bitcoin to them or why did she go downloading unknown app without doing her findings to start using it, don't you know scammers often uses many app to defraud people around to collect their hand earn money from them?

[joniboini]

Basically an oold friend of her persented the scammer guy to her...now she is trying to reach to her friend for telling him what happened, but he wont answers the phone...started thinking that maybe he is part of it too...she cant find or meet the guy for now .

Damn, that's unfortunate. Have you reported him to the police? You should be able to do that right? Considering that she knows his face and probably his name too. If the police are quick, they should be able to track him down if he's still in your country. If not, then I guess you can still rely on the Interpol.

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Basically an oold friend of her persented the scammer guy to her...now she is trying to reach to her friend for telling him what happened, but he wont answers the phone...started thinking that maybe he is part of it too...she cant find or meet the guy for now .

Damn, that's unfortunate. Have you reported him to the police? You should be able to do that right? Considering that she knows his face and probably his name too. If the police are quick, they should be able to track him down if he's still in your country. If not, then I guess you can still rely on the Interpol.

That really sucks, but perhaps in the situation that we have right now, there are a lot of scammers that will really convince you because he/she is supposedly a "friend of a friend". So who wouldn't fall for that trick?

But in this case yeah, people will do that because of the money involved and it's really very unfortunate that this has happened.

So the best case scenario here is just filed a police report. Not sure though how the police will response as this is a special cases for them but currently this is the best recourse of action. And hopefully they catch the criminals.

[holydarkness]

Op did you edited the address out of here as I can see there is no address from the op how do we know the address the scammer uses to scam your friends mom, although from your explanation it seems that the scammer uses mixer after receiving the money he mixed it out to different output address so that the transactions will be hard to trace from his end. But if i must know how did your friend mom suddenly develop passion and trust for unknown person over the internet and to send bitcoin to him without knowing the risk associated with sending bitcoin to them or why did she go downloading unknown app without doing her findings to start using it, don't you know scammers often uses many app to defraud people around to collect their hand earn money from them?

You can always see the original content [and, thus, the address] from ninjastic.

It was removed from the post as per an instruction to "keep things under the radar", though there are other ways to obscure the address from being indexed aside from removing it from post. The fund has been moving, though, so I don't think it's necessary to keep it discreet.

The originating address was:

Code:

bc1qq0aheutystzzw4vc0kn5fkuvnp54ju3yckpmww

It moved with this hash and now the wallet is empty:

Code:

d73da0ca31dae39a2e7c1c5807d38c36786492d5bb5b630c847202338cace372

[SmartGold01]

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You can always see the original content [and, thus, the address] from ninjastic.

Thank you for sharing I couldn't even remember to scan through the ninjastic.space, you know it's very hard for someone to remember all this tools especially those that are not deep in discussion within some few users in this forum won't discover them except maybe they archive them or store them somewhere for easier access. Between is it really possible to track down the final destination of the funds and to see the scammer's address because from explanation it shows that scammer already used mixer to missed the coin away with about different output address to twist transaction from the original owner.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

This is why you never let anyone remotely access your computer

Word up.  My tech ignorance combined with my ever-growing paranoia about all these sneaky ways being mentioned about how scammers can get access to anything on your PC of phone have made me not want to download anything anymore (not that I ever did a lot of downloading of fishy stuff anyway).  Pretty soon I'm just going to be cowering in a corner afraid my computer is going to murder me in my sleep.  Lol.

It's been a while since I've seen Teamviewer mentioned on the forum, and every previous instance where I did see it, it was in relation to a scam.  I assume the younger generation, if they're dealing with crypto, would stay far away from it and that this was indeed somebody's mother who got scammed.  That sucks, OP.  Listen to the advice you're getting here, because you've gotten some good feedback so far.  Spread the word to anyone you know who's even thinking of getting involved with bitcoin about potential scams, because they're everywhere.

[holydarkness]

You can always see the original content [and, thus, the address] from ninjastic.

Thank you for sharing I couldn't even remember to scan through the ninjastic.space, you know it's very hard for someone to remember all this tools especially those that are not deep in discussion within some few users in this forum won't discover them except maybe they archive them or store them somewhere for easier access. Between is it really possible to track down the final destination of the funds and to see the scammer's address because from explanation it shows that scammer already used mixer to missed the coin away with about different output address to twist transaction from the original owner.

The scammer did not and does not use a mixer. A topic about mixer was brought into this discussion strictly limited to a context where someone pointed out that the fund will not be tracable if the scammer put it on a mixer. The flow of fund itself, unless I am mistaken and it's a mixer or an exchange [thus, a "pseudo-mixer"] address, are yet to meet a mixer. Someone with blockchain skill can trace them up if they want to, I... think. Sadly, it's not my forte.

[CreepyUncleJoe]

I'm sorry to hear about the situation. The chances of recovery might be low, considering the amount. Still, it's essential to report it to the police for documentation. Even if the amount is small, having an official record could be useful.