Massachusetts prosecutors seek to seize $2.3 million from crypto romance scam
The U.S. Attorney's Office in the District of Massachusetts announced that they had filed a civil forfeiture action to seize cryptocurrency priced at around $2.3 million from two Binance accounts. Those accounts had received cryptocurrency of various kinds from at least 37 American victims, one of whom was based in Massachusetts and who lost $400,000 in crypto assets to the scammers.
- "United States Files Forfeiture Action to Recover Cryptocurrency Traceable to Pig Butchering Romance Scam", United States Attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts [archive]