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Wiersma also declined to comment when the authorities interviewed her malicious site. Without concrete proof, the police abandoned all charges against him, and then he returned to the Netherlands. price is going to hit $50,000 due to buybacksafter extended holding and lawsuits, Wiersma was sentenced to four and a half years in prison after pleading guilty on 27 January.
The 36-year-old student named wybo wiersma, a Dutch goredijk native, set up a website while studying at St Cross College.
According to reports, Wiersma used a false name to set up the website iotaseed.io, which supposedly generated private keys (seeds). The passwords (seed), which he persuaded the users were at random 81 characters, allow the users to commercer iota. Iota is a cryptocurrency that users cannot access using passwords they refer to as seeds. Users who have the "seeds" are allowed to receive and transfer iota. But its website and its allegations were all a scam targeting untrustworthy users.
Details of The Crypto Scam
According to Julian Christopher KC, Wybo Wiersma convinced users that his website generates the seeds randomly, but in reality, the keys were predetermined. Actually, the keys were pre-determined. He allowed him to use malicious code he wrote on the site.
With malicious codes, wiersma could access the "seeds" of each user when they perform transactions and misappropriate funds in their private account. The funds were worth about $11 million initially, but the IOTA foundation and affected crypto exchanges recovered part of the funds after blocking Wiersma’s accounts.
The funds were worth approximately $11 million at the outset. Iota foundation and impacted crypto exchanges recovered some of the funds after blocking wiersma's accounts. While this business was going on bitfinex, crypto swap got suspicious of the scammer's accounts and froze them. Bitfinex asked Wiersma to identify himself before they were able to unfreeze his accounts, which he complied with by presenting photographs of two forged passports.
One of Belgium's passports did not adequately describe the country referred to in the document. The other was a picture of a so-called Jason who had a passport from Australia.
As Bitfinex was unable to identify account holders, they remained frozen, which led to Wiersma's migration to another exchange.
In 2018, several victims reported the website name iotaseed.io to the German and UK police for stolen funds. The other was a picture of a so-called Jason who had a passport from Australia.justice prevails finally against crypto scammer, wybo wiersmain 2018, many victims have reported the name of the website has been changed.
For stolen funds, I guess. Police followed the crime to the United Kingdom and referred the incident to the cybercrime unit of the Southeast Regional Cybercrime Unit.
After the discovery, in January 2019, the British police raided his apartment in Oxford and tracked the activities on his desktop computer. Authorities subsequently found four other foreign exchange accounts that the fraudster was using to receive stolen funds. Following the discovery, in January 2019, British police raided her apartment in Oxford and tracked the activities on her desktop.
At that point, Wiersma had already abandoned his doctoral program at St Cross. Even with evidence against Wiersma, he denied the allegations, claiming that his computer had been broken into.
Wiersma also declined to comment when officials questioned his malicious website. Without any hard evidence, the police dropped all charges against him, and then he went back to the Netherlands.
Investigators also accessed and stopped his laptop, six hard drives, one memory card and two USB drives on December 24, 2020.
