TechFlow news, on December 16, according to Cointelegraph, police in Scottsdale, Arizona, along with the U.S. Secret Service, arrested a suspect named Nuruhussein Hussein on December 11 over allegations of theft, fraud, and money laundering. The man posed as an Uber driver, accurately called out the names of waiting passengers outside a W Hotel, then borrowed their phones under the pretense of a device malfunction, using Coinbase accounts to transfer approximately $300,000 worth of cryptocurrency into his cold wallet. The court has ordered a $200,000 bail and prohibited him from accessing the internet or leaving the country. According to GitHub data, 19 offline cryptocurrency robbery cases have been recorded globally in 2024.
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