France Crypto Crime: Couple Held at Knifepoint and Forced to Transfer Nearly $1M in Bitcoin
Armed criminals posing as police officers forced a French couple to transfer roughly $980,000 worth of bitcoin during a violent home invasion on Monday in Chesnay, France, in what authorities say is part of a growing wav...
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