Crypto tourist nightmare in London: fake Uber driver allegedly drugs American and steals $123K in Bitcoin and XRP
Jacob Irwin Cline landed in London for a short layover. By the time he left, the 30-year-old American tourist says he had lost $123,000 in cryptocurrency and any sense of safety in one of the world’s most visited cities.
The former software engineer from Portland, Oregon, told British outlet MyLondon that a man posing as his Uber driver outside a Soho bar called out his rideshare nickname. Without cross-checking the car model or license plate, Cline got in. That ride, he says, ended in drugging, abduction, and financial ruin.
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The suspect reportedly handed Cline a cigarette laced with scopolamine, a rare but powerful sedative known as…
