Planned leak of 137GB of crypto scam related telegram messages

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A “planned leak” with 0 demonstration of legitimacy is nothing more than creative writing on the internet.

When planned leaks like this occur for real (or black hats are trying to prove possession of data they shouldn’t have like credit card dumps) there’s almost always a small cut of the data that’s released to give legitimacy to the actor and the dump.

This looks much more like someone trying to wateringhole attack people or extort crypto influencers/funds.

This is obviously intended to get people to click links and download malware. Calling it.

I opened the link in the linked article inside of windows sandbox and it does not appear to contain malware. Page works with no script enabled. The url shortened link points to https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss24a6

if you're biased against crypto, then you want this to be legit

if you're a crypto influencer, you might try to see if you have been implicated in the supposed leak

but if you're skeptical ... how can you be sure this isn't a scam?

>but if you're skeptical ... how can you be sure this isn't a scam?

what are they scamming?

you're saying someone manufactured 137GB of conversations in order to scam people out of _?

Until the password is released and decrypted conversations have been verified, they haven't manufactured jack squat.

Every conversation?

Ideally. Intelligence agencies like Russian ones have already been shown to lace real dumps with edited or fake files. But I'd rather not waste time reading about it when not a single one has yet been seen, much less verified. This is a press release to announce the future release of a press release.

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