Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead of $100

Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by jmvoodoo on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:17AM (#32646587)

Place the funds back into a crypto.com account, transfer the funds through a tumbler into a wallet you control.

Open support ticket with crypto.com saying you've been phished and that the funds are gone. Make sure to capture in writing their response that funds cannot be recovered.

Wait for them to try to recover funds. Forward them their own email and explain that you did return the funds but then they were lost and can't be recovered.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by yyyk on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:30AM (#32646642)

The scheme is highly amusing, the problem being that you still have to launder the money. Sure, the keys to the new wallet are available, but how to explain later how the money was earned in the first place (and why no taxes paid then)?

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by jmvoodoo on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:36AM (#32649081)

I didn't mean it as a serious response, but I'm not sure there's any scheme that doesn't also involve laundering the money somehow if you keep it.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by yyyk on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @11:26PM (#32658026)

I got the joke. AFAIK, all comments on this were jokes (turning crypto's no chargeback mechanism on its holders; super-complicated movie-like scheme; mine was doing what the lady in the article already did). I was hoping someone had a joke to 'deal' with the tax office.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by rasz on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:34PM (#32652297)

Do you see any crypto bros explaining source of their new wealth?

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by dannyw on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @02:35AM (#32647294)

NFTs.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by 3np on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @12:31AM (#32646645)

Tumblers are trusted and are commonly not providing sufficient protection to hide links from a state-level actor. Practically nobody who knows what they're doing would be using a typical tumbler service, for multiple reasons. The field has moved significantly since they would be used for something like this.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by jmvoodoo on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @07:39AM (#32649109)

I definitely don't know what I'm doing and don't claim to. Wasn't a serious recommendation and hopefully not a serious question either.

I don't think you'd need to defend yourself against a state level actor here. 10M gone missing from a crypto exchange isn't exactly a national security event. In the crypto world I think that's just called Tuesday.

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Re:Crypto.com accidentally transfers $10.5m to woman instead... by 3np on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @03:22PM (#32653979)

I got the tone but others may not.

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