A Bitcoin investor who sustained his life in Mersin (turkey) was saved by Bitkoin accumulation worth 500 thousand TL, Bitkoin theft at a distance! The Bitcoins, stolen 943 kilometers away from Istanbul, were caught by a fraudster who pretended to be a mobile operator. This event once again showed how careful the people investing in Bitcoin or other cryptographic currencies should be.
Moreover, fraudsters used the classic fraud methods. Fraudsters behaved like a mobile phone operator who was "taking service to the customer's feet". First of all, one of the fraudsters who were looking for a salesperson of a phone dealer in Istanbul Pendik gave the number of the victim and said, "My brother's sim card has disappeared, will you hand over the new sim card to the business?" The sales representative who took his new sim card to work was given a photocopy of identity outside the information of the line owner and was told that the line was registered in the name of his aunt. Then, when the new sim card became active, the sim card of the real line owner was closed. In the aftermath of the transaction by dealing with fraudulent phone number of $ 500 thousand stolen virtual money. Meanwhile, the victim could not tell the authorities that the phone number belonged to the husband. The victim, who could not get results from talking to the operator, was found in the crime notice. Mersin Chief Public Prosecutor started an investigation related to the incident. That said, the personnel who performed line processing were taken. On the other hand, Bitcoin operations are done via a 34-digit code rather than a name, so it is expected to reach the suspects via this code.
Bitcoin theft is very dangerous
Fraudsters followed these steps as Bitcoin steals:
*First they were given a spare sim card to capture the mobile phone defined in the victim's account.
*Later, they enter the stock exchange company, and forgot the password, so they can send the reset
information to the sim card.
*Later, they changed the password, got the account and transferred Bitcoin worth TL 500 thousand to
them.
Fraudsters stealing Bitcoins brought security back to the agenda. Investors must be careful in this regard. Even in the slightest possible anomalies, it is necessary to intervene immediately without leaving the hand. Otherwise all investors can live with this type of thing.