➡A 66-year-old pensioner from Hong Kong became a victim of crypto scammers three times in six months, losing ≈$840,000.

⚪️In September 2025, he received a WhatsApp proposal from a "virtual currency expert" about stable income and transferred $180,000, after which the scammer disappeared.

⚪️Another "crypto expert" promised to help return the funds for a $75,000 deposit and also disappeared.

⚪️In January, a third "specialist" convinced him to buy tokens for $585,000 supposedly to return the funds in double the amount, after which he stopped communicating.

Law enforcement from the CyberDefender unit suggested that this was all one multi-step scam episode.