Crypto Bros Who Stole $243 Million In Bitcoin Have Been Arrested After Buying Instagram Models Lamborghinis And Flexing All Their Money Online And At Miami Clubs
Every human dreams of what they'd do with generational wealth. Some people would spend it to buy a nice mansion in a beachfront town and fade into Bolivian, others may opt to buy a share in their favorite sports team and reinvest money to stay rich forever. What if I told you that two men decided to use that opportunity (albeit one that they stole rather than earn) into flexing at Miami clubs and buying Instagram models Lamborghinis and it led to their downfall?
ZachXBT is a world-renowned "Blockchain sleuth", or in other words, a guardian of the Blockchain that revolves around crypto into exposing scammers and thieves. I don't know jack shit about crypto, but when I tell you I read every single word of this investigation like it was a F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, I mean it. Let me dumb it down for you from someone who knows absolutely nothing about what he's talking about:
These two fellas (along with others who may still be charged?) ran up a heist that got them a quarter of a BILLION dollars in Bitcoin by using social engineering, aka calling customer services to somehow access millions of dollars in people's crypto accounts, and then somehow tried laundering the funds through various means like renting million dollar properties in Miami next to Portnoy and other zillionaires and flexing it online. They may have gotten away with it if it weren't for the Blockchain sleuth, who tracked nearly every single dollar that they laundered and helped authorities lock up these fellas.
Again, I don't know nothing about nothing as Dave would say, but if someone comes up with a crime map diagram that looks like this, you're probably fucked:
Usually thieves take years to get caught, but as the title states, these guys led to their own demise in RECORD time. They stole the Bitcoin 31 DAYS ago, and all of it was recorded and got into the hands of ZackXBT. Just look at the flexing these guys were doing:
He gifted famous pornstar Sky Bri of flashing Glenny Balls on OnlyStans fame a $10,000 Hermes Kelly bag just for saying hi to him, and she was told that he was the "son of a Chinese billionaire":
I'm not really sure how bags purchased by clearly stolen funds work, but my guess is that Sky is probably going to get a knock on the door from the feds any day now asking for that bag back. He also bought a woman a Lamborghini, who proceeded to tell him that she was taken, to which he responded "idc":
So these guys are going to go down as some of the dumbest criminals to ever exist, and there's a few lessons you can probably take away from this entire story. And remember, if you're going to steal crypto, the Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT is going to find you.