South Korea’s capital, Seoul’s Supreme Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement: “South Korea and the United States are cooperating with investigative authorities to crack down on cryptocurrency scams and help victims undo at least some of the harm suffered.”
Office of the Supreme Prosecutor (DPT), arresting two South Korean suspects involved in cryptocurrency fraud, furthermore Japanese suspect too US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with the intelligence provided by He said he was caught. Forming a joint team, the DPT and FBI confiscated the crypto assets of one of the Korean suspects, and so far, to compensate some victims. 140 million won (118 thousand dollars) reported that they paid back.
These three suspects hacked the passwords of visitors who entered the site for 7 months through a fake site that appeared to be the official Ripple (XRP) site in June 2017. 24 of them Korean 37 of them including the Japanese 61 from user 900 million won you stoleI have been claimed.
The FBI then sent the list of 10 victims of cryptocurrency scams to the DPT. By the end of last month, eight of the victims had been reimbursed, worth about $118,000.
one from DPT official:
It is very difficult to track down people who commit cryptocurrency scams. This cooperation is the first time that our institution has successfully carried out the process of helping victims internationally.
said.