MoonPay Executives May Have Sent $250,000 To Nigerian Scammer, DoJ Filing Suggests (theblock.co) 8
A Department of Justice filing aiming to recover fraudulently obtained cryptocurrency may have inadvertently revealed the scam's victims as the CEO and CFO of crypto payment firm MoonPay. From a report: The filing, which aims to seize around $40,350 in USDT frozen by Tether, reveals that two victims sent $250,300 in USDT to a person posing as Steve Witkoff, co-chair of the President Trump's inaugural committee.
However, records obtained from Binance revealed that the wallet that received the funds was registered to Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a man based in Lagos, Nigeria. The victims are identified in the filing only as "Ivan" and "Mouna." However, as outlet NOTUS noticed, Crypto payment firm Moonpay's CEO is Ivan Soto-Wright and its CFO is Mouna Ammari Siala. Furthermore, a wallet involved in the $250,300 transaction is listed by Etherscan as a MoonPay wallet.
However, records obtained from Binance revealed that the wallet that received the funds was registered to Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a man based in Lagos, Nigeria. The victims are identified in the filing only as "Ivan" and "Mouna." However, as outlet NOTUS noticed, Crypto payment firm Moonpay's CEO is Ivan Soto-Wright and its CFO is Mouna Ammari Siala. Furthermore, a wallet involved in the $250,300 transaction is listed by Etherscan as a MoonPay wallet.
classy obfuscated payment (Score:5, Informative)
Re: (Score:2)
I guess so... (Score:4, Interesting)
One grifterr vs. another. (Score:2)
Does it matter that the intended grifter didn't get paid?
If anybody wants to throw their money away (Score:2)
But it was a PRINCE! (Score:3)
Real royalty.
Good (Score:2)
I'd rather a Nigerian scammer get it than the one running the US.
(and by running I mean destroying)