The US authorities accidentally transferred cryptocurrency to the fraudster. This happened due to the inattention of the employees of the Drug Control Department.
In the spring of this year, the Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than $500,000 in USDT from two Binance accounts. The attacker noticed how the transfer was made to the Marshals Service.
A unit of the Ministry of Justice received less than $50, probably as a test transfer. After that, the fraudster created his own cryptocurrency wallet, in which the first five and last four characters matched the address of the Marshals Service.
The attacker hoped that the department’s employees would copy the wrong address. And so it happened. As a result, the fraudster received $55,000 in cryptocurrency. Representatives of the Drug Enforcement Administration asked Tether to block the funds, but the cryptocurrency had already been converted.
