Two Canadian Teens Charged for Impersonating Coinbase Support to Steal $4.2m in Crypto
A pair of teens from Hamilton, Canada, was recently arrested and charged with theft and possession of criminally obtained property after the authorities managed to trace $4.2 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum back to them....
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The two individuals in question are both seventeen-year-old boys who defrauded a US investor by pretending to be Coinbase customer support....
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