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A 20-Year-Old's Crypto Wallet Moved $123M in Romance-Scam Cash: Interpol Says
A 20-year-old's cryptocurrency wallet moved more than $122.5 million in just 10 months as part of a scheme to launder money stolen from romance-scam victims, Interpol said, in one of the standout cases from a sweeping global anti-fraud operation. Thai police made two arrests in the case, according to Interpol, which said the operators funneled the proceeds into a mix of cryptocurrencies and used cross-chain token swaps, shifting funds between different blockchains, to obscure where the money went. The arrests were part of Operation First Light 2026, a coordinated crackdown that ran from mid-January to the end of ... (full story)
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