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Scammer Extorted By Russian FSB (UPDATE)
🕑 Added 2025-01-19 17:27:05 +0000 UTCA few years ago we reported on Safemoon, a coin that had "automagically locked liquidity".
That was a lie and the founders were stealing from the cookie jar, and I exposed it...
A year later the DOJ/FBI arrested 2 of the founders while a third (Kyle Nagy) wasn't found, and is believed to be on the run.
Now a Russian source is reporting that Kyle has been extorted by 2 men for over $4 million dollars. Supposedly these men have connections to the Russian FSB which is like their version of the CIA.
My only caution on this story is that it's hard to verify beyond this one source. I don't speak Russian, however it would seem like an odd thing to fake since Kyle Nagy is neither a celebrity or a hot topic.
I've linked the screenshots that were shared in case anyone wants to take a look themselves.
Comments
Ed Leszczynski
Russia bad? no way!
Austin
I’m at a Wwe thing and Logan came out I started yelling Coffeezilla!!
MassiveLayoffs
Big news in the US Crypto world. "US National Crypto Reserve". EO signed to develop a national digital asset stockpile. I guess it's impossible to go back to the gold reserve at this point. Can't buy gold with deficit spending
Colin Childs
Unrelated, but was curious if you had heard about the ledger cofounder kidnapping story that is circulating now. The more I read about this the more it seems like something you might be very interested in. Hope you're well!
LucidsAdventure
Coffee people are running scams on Kick they created a Demisux coin on her channel she didn't make it! https://kick.com/demisux
Олег
кошмар и тут русские but to put things into perspective google wildberries market place story to kinda....get the impression of what's going on in mother russia
Ella
Well, quite a lot of people on the inside don't seem to understand it either. Bizzare, really.
Ross Vincent
What do we call the void when it's a Patreon exclusive? The "Patreoid?"
Greg
Interesting that Signal is being used from your source when I’ve heard it’s quite unsecured. Thanks for your work Coffee! Always looking forward to every update both on main channel and void!
Angel Barranco
Those guys are so annoying on x
Jessica Jeffery
All of these goobers run away to Dubai and Russia. I wonder how much dark money Dubai has at this point. It’s basically the modern day “Night City” from Cyberpunk
James O'Dwyer
When the potential truth is better than any distorted clickbait title. We are living in interesting times.
Sergey
Kyle's statement looks translated, I can imagine him not learning russian language in advance though :)
Sergey
It's interesting that people on the outside don't really understand how bad things are in Russia. This guy was sweet talked into getting his Golden Visa and got mugged because he thought this people are trustworthy, where in reality they don't give single shit about anything. Lying, deceiving, robbing and killing people is just their day to day operations.
Coffeezilla
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Coffeezilla
Agreed
Coffeezilla
Good insight
Sergey
Seems believable to me. It's not the first time FSB (similar US agency is FBI by the way, not CIA) gets involved in crypto, they helped oligarch Konstantin Malofeev to hostile take over btc-e and still deeply affiliated with russian crypto exchanges. Source of the docs is "ВЧК-ОГПУ" which is huge anonymous channel posting leaks from police, it's better to take it with a grain of salt, but in this case I don't see the reason for them to fake it.
Michelle
This is going to be interesting maybe life is truly a movie Love from germany
Paul Stepchenko
Ok, I was too focused on a "Nagy" and kinda ignored "Kyle Thomas", sorry. But misspells are still weird. Unless that's how he pronounced words and whoever wrote them down decided to keep it that way. But it's only three or four words in the entire conversation. Everything else is spelled correctly.
Katie Baker
I feel for his wife, who doesn't appear to be involved, and definitely for his kids. They are just along for the ride, and it must be so scary for them.
Marcus
For the same reason people flock to Red Note to evade the TikTok ban. People in countries that has been high trust for a long time have grown uninformed and gullible.
Paul Stepchenko
Spotted a couple of word that are spelled wrong. Also this "Kyle Nagy Thomas" says some things in a weird manner. Could be that russian is not a mother tongue for him though.
Coffeezilla
Russia is known for not extraditing to the US. Hence why Edward Snowden went there for example.
Liz Matzelle
You mean they might promote you to be a close friend and confidant of Putin, the ultimate global thug? Yea... I'd be afraid of that too. It tends to end badly. Ask Prigozhin.
James Rule
Maybe I'm just thick, by why would a guy run to Russia to escape the law? I don't know about extradition laws, but I'd be more afraid of what the Russians might do to me once they found out I was a criminal.
Joanna Castellon
Imagine my shock that Russians would steal money from you
