{"id":564635,"date":"2026-03-05T15:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/how-us-investigators-traced-61m-in-crypto-tied-to-romance-scams-across-wallets\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T15:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:53:07","slug":"how-us-investigators-traced-61m-in-crypto-tied-to-romance-scams-across-wallets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/how-us-investigators-traced-61m-in-crypto-tied-to-romance-scams-across-wallets\/","title":{"rendered":"How US investigators traced $61M in crypto tied to romance scams across wallets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How investigators tracked $61 million in crypto tied to romance scams across wallets using blockchain forensics and stablecoin freezes.<\/p>\n

Federal authorities in North Carolina seized more than $61 million in USDT, revealing how pig-butchering schemes combine emotional manipulation with fraudulent crypto investment platforms to defraud victims at scale.<\/p>\n

Investigators leveraged the public, immutable nature of blockchain records to trace victim deposits across multiple wallets. Despite attempts to obscure the trail, every transfer remained permanently visible and reconstructable.<\/p>\n

Using blockchain analytics, authorities clustered related addresses based on transaction flows, timing patterns and consolidation points, allowing them to connect dispersed wallets back to the broader scam network.<\/p>\n

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How investigators tracked $61 million in crypto tied to romance scams across wallets using blockchain forensics and stablecoin freezes. Federal authorities in North Carolina seized more than $61 million in USDT, revealing how pig-butchering schemes combine emotional manipulation with fraudulent crypto investment platforms to defraud victims at scale. Investigators leveraged the public, immutable nature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-564635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}