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A variation of this - a fake job offer, allowed scammers to steal $540 million dollars in crypto tokens. [0]

I guess the scammer assumed as a contractor, you may have access to other customer systems they could exploit.

The internet be crazy, ya'll.

[0] https://www.theblock.co/post/156038/how-a-fake-job-offer-too...

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Axie Infinity was a pyramid scheme. The fact that in the end it was "hacked" and the funds "disappeared" is highly suspicious. Occam's razor says that they just exit scammed it.

A bit of (neutral) clarification, Axie is still active and is in the top ~60 projects by market cap[0], and the heist was actually linked to North Korean state actors[1]

[0] https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/axie-infinity [1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/14/us-link...

If you're going to throw shit at crypto, at least get your most basic facts straight before doing so. As the other comment points out, Axie Infinity is still around, well used and far from having been exit scammed, much less disappeared.

Well, in the crypto world, code is law after all.

An actual crime was committed. Not to mention you’d be in the same spot if you wired $540M to a bank in Mozambique.

The joke is that crypto makes it unusually easy to have your money stolen away, only to be met with the "code is law, not your keys not your coins" adage from crypto maximalists.

I’m not seeing the joke. It reads more like snark.

Not really snarky when it's true. The site "Web 3 is going great" has a number of these types of events occurring.

https://web3isgoinggreat.com

Law enforcement is investigating. What are you talking about?

lol, somebody missed the boat.

I was mining back in 2010, lol, I'm doing just fine. I can profit and still tell you that the underlying investment is simply bad.

Regulation is bad. There’s no need for “prosecution” and law, this is the free market at work

So an employee was using his work laptop to open job offers? Or maybe didn’t even have a work laptop? Disappointing but I didn’t have high expectations anyways

Have you ever heard of the services Glassdoor and Fishbowl? They are services where you can "review" and "rate" your employer. In general not a bad idea. However they require you to sign up with a valid _work email_! Crazy...

To be fair it ensures quality (in terms of bonafide employee reviews) in their dataset, but it does limit its size. And also presumably skews it positive (no harm in the in-anonymity if you have only good things to say).

Can't review your past employers anymore...

The company can also pay to delete your reviews, if you didn't know this already. Glassdoor will say they won't, but, cui bono, they make their money from companies.

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1660192047674925056

I have used Glassdoor on multiple occasions, writing reviews of my employers over the years, and I was never asked to use a work email.

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