While the article seems part-advertisement, the risk is real. Best not to let strangers know your worth, and use multi-factor authentication everywhere. It's a disgusting (and beautiful) world we live in!
It's all advertisement. The first paragraph is "Spoiler alert: their funds secured via Casa multisig remain safe."
> the risk is real.
I'm not so sure, I think there's a good chance this was made up. Unless this victim let on how much cryptocurrency he had early on in the conversation, this whole scenario seems too high-risk/low-reward to be very real. I mean, a Tinder account backed by a real person (supposedly with real photos to not put off the mark), waiting for people interested in cryptocurrency to steal it? Not drugging a lot of small fish who were bragging and attracting the attention of the police before finding a whale?
I think the flaw with that is that I could totally see some unemployed dude who took his meager savings and went all /r/wallstreetbets into dogecoin describing themselves the same way on a dating app. I guess the question is, which one is closer to the more typical case?
Aside: It's something I worry about sometimes too on phones...
That night, someone on the other side of the world shared a random PDF with me.
I was smart enough not to touch that bad juju PDF, but I wonder if it was an attempt to hack me. Anyone know?
There's no way anyone can answer that unless you share the PDF for analysis (and I couldn't even answer then).
Bitcoin has no privacy by default, so that's not going to work unless people never transact