Crypto trader robbery Incident in the UK

[LogitechMouse]

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This guy keeps flexing, look at this tweet... I think this is already the target of the robbers and know his location.
[1] https://x.com/rrealist/status/2043438459625369765
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Criminals are evolving, and that includes these robbers. They're being sophisticated, using different tools to know the exact location of their target.

We've said it a million times already. If there's an opportunity for us to be silent, let's be silent for f*ck's sake. Bragging online will not benefit you at all. Flexing your assets online will not make you more famous... or you might be famous for those criminals and because of that, they'll make you their primary target hence, what happened to what OP has shared. I feel bad for the one who wrote that tweet, and it's good that he didn't get injured at all, but this will give a long-term trauma to him and worse, that might stay FOREVER.

As somebody who's involved into crypto, TBH I have this feeling as well that what if there's somebody out there following me already and planning an attack. Fortunately, I didn't share any of my assets to anybody in my are, but what if? I guess I'm just getting anxious because of what's happening worldwide. My bad.

[Hyphen(-)]

I don't believe this is just a random rubbery, Gozie51 if you read the victim message you will discover that he stated it clearly that the rubbers came straight for his cryptocurrency and have to make multiple transfers from main wallets and ledger wallet as he said.

They must have worked with information and long time planning before the attacks, wether we like it or not whenever there is this kind of cryptocurrency rubbery we have to deal with the insider information leaked.

So we still come down to the issues with privacy.

This rubbery looks like a well prepared rubbery, they came prepared based on information they have and they have prepared well with perfect timing to get everything they wanted and from the message from the victim, he explained that they forced him to send out from his main wallet; this means they have good details about him and knows what he worth. It can be an information from someone very close who knows everything about him and how much he worth, and he can call that person as a friend because this is too close to him I must say.

This is a good example of how most of us who open up to everyone will end up. We will think that we are trying to impress others just to encourage them to invest in Bitcoin, but some people will just have evil mind to get rid of all you have because they are jealous. We need to keep our savings to ourselves to avoid bad friends that will set us up.

[TheUltraElite]

User might be trying to get attention and even then the topic might be true, still I dont believe this story to be completely true.

I do support the concept that one should not reveal their holdings or give any hint about their crypto they posses while they are online because someone might be out there with some idea about the person and hence become a victim to their attack.

While I abhor social media and influencers, I suggest people to take this concept seriously and not to take the victims stories for granted.

[SamReomo]

I feel bad for that person but when someone invests in cryptocurrencies then he/she should do it privately so others who can do bad things won’t know anything about such investments.

The incident that happened with that person seems like a pre planned one. The robbers might know that person personally and he might have shared his cryptocurrency investment information with those people.

As a cryptocurrency trader and investor one should keep such things private. Telling anyone about such investments can be harmful. That's why it is important to have the highest privacy as a cryptocurrency investor/trader to be on the safe end.

[Mrbluntzy]

This is one of the reasons why I always feel that some people posing themselves on social media as traders might not really be traders, they only live fake live and the robbers knows too that's why they don't go after them, if this case is true, then the robbers have been targeting him for some times and they already knows that he is legit and that they can get some money out from him. I guess there are other traders in UK but how many times have they been attacked? Some of them are maintaining a low profile because they know the amount of money they are controlling as traders but some people will just come online to give off information about themselves, making themselves easy target for robbers meanwhile there are people making more money than then still in same career but they decided to stand low because of incidents like this.

[Fiatless]

A crypto trader from the UK experience a crypto robbery and detailed the events of the incident.

If you live in the uk and do crypto get the fuck out

just got my house invaded, taped up held at knife point & robbed for $800k

in so much shock i dont know what the fuck to do, fuck this country. No this is not satire, i fucking wish it was.

The solution is not leaving the UK, wrench attack can happen anywhere.  Keeping your mouth shut, living life modestly, and hoping that centralized platforms don't give out your details might be helpful.

User might be trying to get attention and even then the topic might be true, still I dont believe this story to be completely true.

You might not believe it until it happens to someone you know. But you have to believe it because wrench attack is becoming common. It has been reported in France, UK, Canada, Spain and other countries. Maybe you would believe this one that was reported by a well-known news outlet, the BBC.

Crypto thieves attack man in home and threaten to kill pregnant wife's baby in 'horrific' robbery

[jossiel]

This is a reminder of the Wrench attack issue in the past to all users influencers or not to keep a lowkey status about your crypto assets

It's sad that these crypto influencers have publicly displayed their lives and does it for a living. If someone is in that situation right now, think of it if it's worth it.

You get to be famous and earn a lot from contents but, at what expense? we hate these criminals who are speculating everyone who's not low profile.

They can attack anybody but if they have no idea what people does inside their house and what wealth they have, they'll skip those who remains low key.

[macson]

I mean, he already shared a bit of information about where he lives from the pictures he posted on his social media accounts. That's just one way to invite criminals to come to his place. But I think that's just one of the risks of being a crypto influencer when you show off your assets too much, and then you just become a target for criminals. He's just got a valuable lesson on how precious privacy really is.