Loreta and Mindaugas from Horsham, Sussex, were lured in a fake bonus offer from a fraudster who seemed to be working for Coinbase Platform - shortly before the site was listed as a public company.Mindaugas, an executive at a UK-based company, received an email on March 24, 2021, that purportedly came from Coinbase, claiming that he was eligible for a bonus on Coinbase. The victim tried to claim a £60 bonus supposedly offered by Coinbase and in just nine minutes, £ 15,000 were deducted from the couple’s crypto savings. “At first, we thought it might be some kind of mistake or a glitch. But since their knowledge base had no option that covered any bugs or glitches, we decided to inform Coinbase that my husband’s account has been compromised. But all we got back was a password reset request,” Loreta said. Coinbase is a popular stock trading website used for buying and selling Cryptocurrency with over 56 million users and worth $ 99.6 billion. Double FraudShortly after changing his account password, Mindaugas received a second call from the supposed Coinbase support agent. The scammer told him that Coinbase was answering to the open support ticket concerning his compromised account and promptly began to question Mindaugas about the cyber fraud. After finishing the interrogation, the scammer offered Mindaugas two options.“Either we call the police, in which case there is no guarantee that we’ll ever get our money back, or they give us a refund without getting involved with the authorities. My husband was still in shock and rather disoriented, so at that moment, he agreed to proceed with the second option,” Loreta told CyberNews. “He said 'we see that you have an acc ..
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