The U.S. Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force has announced charges against six Africa-based individuals, with connections to China and Southeast Asia, who allegedly targeted Americans with fake Nonfungible Token (NFT) investment scams.
In a statement announcing the charges on Tuesday, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Ferris Pirro, said it was the latest action against cybercriminals and cryptocurrency investment scammers.
“In the scheme, scammers posed as beautiful women who met victims on dating websites, eventually enlisting them to connect their cryptocurrency wallets to fraudulent websites associated with the NFT investments,” Pirro said.
“Once connected, the scammers willed the victims to continue to fund their cryptocurrency wallets, and then surreptitiously pulled money from the victims’ wallets without their knowledge.”…