2024-10-08
27 分钟When Stephanie joined a WhatsApp group to get advice on cryptocurrency investing, it began a wild ride that included the CEO of a large investment firm, cybercriminals half a world away, and a brush with a rag tag team of computer nerds in Alabama chasing a $5 billion problem.
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I have a big following on LinkedIn.
So when someone searched exmed coin on the Internet for many people, the first hit that they got was my LinkedIn post.
This is Gary Warner.
He's the director of research in the computer forensics lab at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
And among other things, he studies newfangled crypto products like this thing called Exmedcoin.
And because of his work, he tends to get lots of messages from people he doesn't know.
When I first met Stephanie, it was because she responded to my LinkedIn post.
And in a recent LinkedIn post, he said he'd determined that this platform called Exmedcoin was a scam.
And Stephanie Washington was sure he was wrong.
I say to Gary, I'm like, how is this a scam?
Like, explain to me what it is.
They're not asking for money.
You give them percentages.
I tried to share some reasons why I knew it was a scam.
And I said, when you realize it's a scam, please come back and tell me.
Stephanie knew crypto could be confusing and even sketchy, which is why she'd reached out to Gary.
I was completely oblivious to crypto.
In fact, I was always scared of crypto because of the horror stories that I had heard about people losing their life savings.
I don't even like to gamble.