Tangential, I can't believe the name X is actually being used by journalists, it's even worse that I expected from a sentence readability standpoint.
You don't need to get everyone in the cryptocurrency space to believe you, just a few people transferring funds from their wallet will make you rich.
Still crazy that such a semi-anonymous scam got 700k, sounds like there's still a lot of money in crypto ready to gamble.
I'm no criminal, but if I were, I would definitely target cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Many of them are the perfect target, having access to large sums of money, having the ability and willingness to transfer funds in a near untraceable way, and often looking for a get-rich-quick scheme like those cryptomultimillionaires.
Things like NFT smart contract that would transfer all of your NFTs when trying to get rid of them, coupled with unpleasant pictures, coupled with cryptoclout, publicly accessible profiles, and no method to refuse a transaction, have produced some ingenious thefts that nobody would even think possible ten years ago. Millions of real world dollars have been spent on pictures of monkeys, and millions have been lost after someone stole those pictures.