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The phishing attacks starting as on ledger memo spam, now e-mail spam, is still making new victims. https://coil.com/p/xrplorer/The-homoglyph-heist/AUieXW_1D The current state (June 15) is more than 2,100,000 XRP stolen and 1,980,000 XRP laundered, mainly through to swap services: ChangeNOW and CoinSwitch.
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Definitely fake:
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If you didn't make the payment, someone else did. How it happened is difficult to say (where/how did you store your wallet backup files, private keys etc), have you ever typed in the private key on an insecure website, is your computer infected with a keylogger or other malware, ever typed in the private key while connected to a public wifi …?
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One lead you could follow with law enforcement is that r3ne9vXa93RNH6VrJEj7hMtRoBt1pVV4PK was activated by Binance (they would have a record of who), and the same account also transferred money to Wirex (who also should have a record of who). This account has both sent and received money from the account you mention (rLDFYFYG3D1dDwyXPyx3v498zEKCxSHZWM)
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We've been contacted by a victim of June 27, so while we thought that the perpetrators were done this was a cue to look into movements to see if there were other thefts we didn't know about. Perpetrators have changed tactics and we have been able to identify several thefts, the latest being July 7, and the stolen amount is now close to 26M.
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On Gatehub you either create a new XRPL account (wallet), and they generate an address and private key for you, or you import an existing XRPL account by entering your address and private key. When you trade on Gatehub (or send money, add trustlines …) their software is doing it for you – and it couldn't without knowing the private key. However, they do not store this private key in "plain text", but encrypted with your password. So Gatehub cannot do anything with your account for you – only when you have signed in and decrypted the private key for the active session. Since we have n