Whoops: DEA Falls for Crypto Scam, Hands Fraudster $55,000 in Stolen Funds

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was scammed out of over $55,000 in confiscated cryptocurrency funds through a classic airdrop phishing scam, where a fraudster created a similar-looking address to dupe the DEA into sending funds to the wrong account.

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