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A U.S. musician has lost roughly $420,000 in Bitcoin after falling victim to a fake crypto wallet app scam. Garrett Dutton, known as ‘G. Love,’ said he lost 5.9A U.S. musician has lost roughly $420,000 in Bitcoin after falling victim to a fake crypto wallet app scam. Garrett Dutton, known as ‘G. Love,’ said he lost 5.9

CASE STUDY | U.S Musician Looses Over $400,000 in Bitcoin to a Crypto Scam

Autore: BitcoinKE

Fonte: BitcoinKE

2026/04/13 18:00

2 min di lettura

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A U.S. musician has lost roughly $420,000 in Bitcoin after falling victim to a fake crypto wallet app scam.

Garrett Dutton, known as ‘G. Love,’ said he lost 5.9 BTC, accumulated over about a decade as a retirement fund after downloading a malicious app posing as Ledger Live from Apple’s App Store. The fake app prompted him to enter his seed phrase giving attackers immediate access to his funds, which were drained ‘in an instant.’

“I had to put my seed phrase in the ledger wallet app. I was tricked totally sucks,” said G. Love.

“I been in the crypto circus since 2017. Today, they caught me off guard. It was my own damn fault for not being more diligent.

But let it serve as a warning. There’s so many scams.”

Blockchain investigator, ZachXBT, later traced the stolen Bitcoin to deposit addresses linked to the crypto exchange, KuCoin, indicating the funds were quickly moved and laundered across multiple transactions.

The incident highlights ongoing risks in the crypto ecosystem, particularly from counterfeit wallet applications. Security experts and Ledger have repeatedly warned users to download wallet software only from official sources as entering a seed phrase into any third-party app compromises full control of funds.

The case comes amid a broader rise in crypto-related fraud, with U.S. authorities reporting billions of dollars lost to scams in recent years.

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