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Comment by jmvoodoo | Hacker News Reader

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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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)?

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.

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.

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

NFTs.

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.

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.

I got the tone but others may not.

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