🚀💰🤑 Cryptocurrency Crime Warning 🚀💰🤑
Chirag Tomar, a 30-year-old Indian citizen, pleaded guilty to creating a fake Coinbase website that tricked hundreds of users into providing their login information. This cunning scammer has scammed over $9.5 million in crypto! 😱💰
Caught red-handed at the Atlanta airport, Tomar now faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison. 🚔👮♂️
This scam is simple but effective: create a convincing clone of the Coinbase Pro website, lure in unsuspecting victims, and bam! 🔥 More than 542 people fell for the trap and lost their hard-earned cryptocurrency.
But the new twist is: Tomar was discovered because he used his real email to contact the conspirators! He even kept a spreadsheet of his victims and the amount of money stolen. Talk about keeping receipts! 🧾🕵️♂️
Living the high life with his ill-gotten gains, Tomar splurged on Rolex watches, luxury cars and trips to London, Dubai and Thailand. 🌍💎🚗