Bitcoin scammers impersonate police, Sunray Finance $2.7M drain: Crypto-Sec
Scammers pretended to be police and demanded BTC for missing court dates, while an attacker minted a huge number of SUN tokens and dumped them.
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Scammers pretended to be police and demanded BTC for missing court dates, while an attacker minted a huge number of SUN tokens and dumped them.
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