Huge Warning For Anyone in the Bitcoin Mining Industry 👇
Check out the incident here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwnRFzUEcPw
I’m putting up a $1,000 reward for anyone who can identify the voices of the young men in this video and provide their names, phone numbers, and/or addresses.
My Crypto Got Stolen. It’s All Gone! Here’s How I Fell for a Scam, Got Catfished, Socially Engineered, and Hacked.
I got catfished earlier today by someone posing as a Bloomberg reporter. They claimed they were conducting an interview and asked me to share my screen to capture visuals for their supposed "article."
While on Zoom, they gained access to my Terminal App after I shared my screen. They said they couldn’t see it clearly and suggested I tweak my settings to allow recording or sharing. Soon after, strange things started happening on my computer. I shut it down, but the damage was done—they’d already run scripts in under a minute to locate and steal my bitcoin wallet info.
I’m fairly certain they only accessed one wallet, a Trust Wallet with $4,000 in it. My other wallets are secured with multi-factor authentication and require a separate device to unlock.
The takeaway? Never share your screen or let someone remotely control your Zoom session. Always verify their identity—insist on an email from an official account and ask them to turn on their webcam during calls or interviews.
When I realized what was happening, the "interviewers" refused to enable their webcams or send an email from a legit address. They told me to Google it and figure out what an official email should look like.
By then, files were opening, text was copying, and the Terminal app was active. I’d already given them permission through Zoom’s screen-sharing feature. I quickly disabled it and closed Terminal, but it was too late. Since then, I’ve updated all my passwords and added more 2FA to my accounts.