Crypto Thieves Now in Streets of London Forcing Victims to Open Their Phones
Scammers, hackers and thieves are very much common on crypto exchanges and they have been different opinions on how to solve the issue and make crypto exchanges much more secure from cyber-attacks however, it seems our crypto thieves have left the online method to focus on the offline method by mugging people and forcing them to open their phones and steal their crypto from their wallet.
This act is now becoming very common in the streets of London where crypto holders no longer walk safe or walk around with their phones to avoid crypto mugging as you may call it. They have been different reports of people getting attacked and being forced to use their devices to steal their crypto assets and if they refused they might get beaten or even worse which is very bad.
The recent attack reported was from a man who was freely walking in an alley, he was mugged by a gang where he was pushed to the wall and forced to use his face ID recognition to open his phone and they transferred all his XRP worth $7,000. And yeah you might ask what he was doing in an alley, it was also he said that he willingly went there with the hope of buying cocaine from a client in the alley but unfortunately he was mugged by the group.
Another one was a man who was feeling ill and wanted to throw up, so he went under or close to the bridge to the do it and he was attacked at the moment where he was forced to use his fingerprint to unlock his phone and they transferred over $35,000 worth of crypto from his wallet after changing some codes to claim the wallet itself.
Another mugging that was reported was a man who said he was trying to order an UBER on the road but unfortunately his phone was snatched from his hand, after reports, he finally got the phone from another location but he noticed that they had transferred $6,000 worth of Ether from his Coinbase wallet.
These muggings have made the street of London feel unsafe for crypto investors because walking down the streets with your phone is like walking with a lot of money while counting it, so definitely it will attract unwanted attention from thieves. Suggestions given by the authorities are that investors should avoid moving around with accounts that have a large sum of crypto assets or have a spare phone to move around with that doesn’t contain your crypto wallet.
Provisions are being made by the British police on how to counter and trace the perpetrators doing the act and causing panic to the public because aside from mugging they are also involved in other acts like pickpocketing of phones and credit cards. A man was actually a victim too to pickpocketing where his card and phone were stolen and $12,000 was removed from his account.
So to the London crypto investors, stay safe out there because the streets aren’t friends right now.
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