Two Canadians sentenced to jail for stealing bitcoins on Twitter

A US court sentenced two Canadian citizens to 24 months in prison for organizing a scam on Twitter.

According to the FBI, in 2017, Canadianscreated a fake HitBTC technical support account on social networks. Pretending to be employees of the company, they fraudulently forced an Oregon resident to transfer to a crypto wallet one of the scammers of 23.2 MTC.

During the correspondence, the attackers convinced the victim to give them data that could be used to gain access to the account on the exchange and the email to which he was connected.tied. A couple of days after the theft, the scammers divided the loot and exchanged it for fiat to lead a luxurious lifestyle, including buying expensive cars and playing in casinos.

Criminals pleaded guilty and were sentencedto two years in prison. They also agreed to pay compensation in the amount of $ 184.5 thousand for the court hearings on the petition for review of the case.

Earlier, we also reported that the Irish authorities confiscated $ 56 million in bitcoins from a drug dealer.

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