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On a tangent, my neighbor came to me about a month ago and asked if I was a "hacker"?

He's around 75 and has known me for maybe 20 years, we're not close friends but we run into each other every now and then and he knows I work with IT; I'm about half his age.

Long story short, I find out he needs help to retrieve his bitcoin wallet because he's lost $300k. I spend an hour looking around his devices and find out he's been buying bitcoin from a young hip instagram lady in Florida.

Wait for it…

…they shared access to the wallet.

He had a chat log stretching back one year on whatsapp with her, he was now paying her smaller sums to cover the cost for some "hacker" to retrieve his wallet.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

parent nntwozz 2 years ago

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