Scammers Pose as Police to Steal Crypto Wallets
Criminals are using Australia’s national cybercrime reporting channel and impersonating police to try to scam Australians out of funds from their cryptocurrency or seed wallets.
According to the AFP-led Joint Policing Cybercrime Coordination Centre (JPC3), cybercriminals have illicitly obtained personal information – such as email addresses and phone numbers – and used them to submit false reports to Australia’s national cybercrime reporting tool, ReportCyber.
AFP cybercrime investigators detailed one real-life case that illustrates how the scam works.
The target was called by someone purporting to be from the AFP. They were told someone had been arrested on the weekend and the victim had subsequently been identified in a data…
