On-chain investigator ZachXBT has revealed a phone-based support scam engineered by Christian Nieves, a New York-based con artist, siphoned more than $4 million from the wallets of crypto exchange Coinbase customers. In a lengthy X post, the on-chain sleuth outlined the sophisticated social engineering scheme orchestrated by Nieves, who operated online under the aliases Daytwo and PawsOnHips. According to ZachXBT, Nieves impersonated Coinbase customer support representatives to execute the scam. Nieves allegedly ran a small call center operation, where he also acted as a caller, targeting victims through phone-based phishing tactics
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