According to the complaint, the scam began when the victim received an email purporting to be from Steve Witkoff, co-chair of ...

A Nigeria-based scammer posing as Steve Witkoff, a long-time ally of U.S. President Donald Trump and co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, stole approximately $250,000 in crypto from a ...

Trump was not personally defrauded. The real victim was a donor tricked into sending money to a scammer impersonating Trump’s ...

The FBI uncovered a ₦460m crypto scam by a suspected Nigerian fraudster who posed as a Trump official; $40,300 was recovered ...

A Nigeria-based scammer has stolen $250,300 worth of cryptocurrency after impersonating the Donald Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.

U.S. DOJ seizes $40K in crypto from a Trump-Vance scam using fake emails. Tether’s blockchain helped lead to recovery, and ...

Fraudsters are attracted to valuable cryptocurrency wallets like moths to a flame, and if an individual or entity is ...

The funds were laundered across multiple wallets, but on-chain analysis led investigators to track down a portion of the assets. The DOJ now seeks to return ...

The US Department of Justice has recovered $40,000 in cryptocurrency out of the $250,300 stolen in a Trump-Vance inaugural ...

A Nigerian national posing as a Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee member scammed a donor $250,000 crypto using a lookalike ...

A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its "weaponization ...

A Nigerian scammer posed as Steve Witkoff, co-chair of the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee, to steal $250,300 in ...