The Federal Bureau of Investigation created its own cryptocurrency token as part of an operation to catch fraudsters in the crypto market. The sting, dubbed Operation Token...
Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they’ll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?
They are catching scams by running their own scam?
The FBI loooooves themselves some honeypots.
Why go catch criminals when you can set up some links/a token/whatever and they’ll come running to you and do the incriminating part themselves AND leave the logs of said activity in your possession?
Much simpler!
Wouldn’t that be entrapment though?
no, because they only provided the opportunity