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🗓️ 9 January 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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When a major cryptocurrency exchange gets hacked in the summer of 2016, billions of dollars worth of Bitcoin go missing. The stolen crypto sits unspent for months, and the hack seems all but impossible to trace… until two surprisingly savvy federal agents begin investigating on the black market. As they follow the money, it leads them to two of the wackiest, and tackiest, international cyber-criminals the world has ever known.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, scam influencers fans, Sachi here. |
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| 0:32.7 | Sachi, if you suddenly came into a bunch of stolen money, and I'm talking like billions of dollars worth, would you act natural and play it cool or would you like immediately go wild? |
| 0:38.8 | I would not tell anybody that I came into possession of an amount of money that immediately |
| 0:43.4 | render somebody evil. I wouldn't say a word. Exactly same. Well, I ask because the story |
| 0:50.1 | I'm about to tell you is about someone who allegedly comes into a bunch of stolen money |
| 0:54.5 | and truly does not know how to play it cool. When she should be laying low, she's posting |
| 1:00.0 | all over Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, and her faces all over billboards and Times Square. |
| 1:06.3 | It's a real cautionary tale, and I can't wait to tell you all about it because it will get you so mad. |
| 1:13.0 | Let's go. Let's get mad. |
| 1:16.7 | It's a cold gray morning in New York in January 2022. |
| 1:22.2 | Agents from the FBI, IRS, and Homeland Security are gathered by the back entrance of a massive condo building on Wall Street. |
| 1:30.6 | They use the freight elevator to get to the 33rd floor, and they rush down the hall and burst into the unit of a married couple. |
| 1:38.6 | What they find inside doesn't look like the headquarters of a crime syndicate. |
| 1:43.5 | It doesn't even look like the home of functioning adults. |
| 1:46.8 | The apartments stuffed with crap. |
| 1:49.9 | Furniture with loud, vaguely Islamic patterns, bedazzled animal skulls, LED strip lighting, |
| 1:56.9 | and plenty of customized swag. |
| 1:59.8 | A purple neon sign on the wall reads, |
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