A Mokena resident gained again more than $100,000 that was lost in an abroad cryptocurrency scam thanks to a Mokena police detective and Will County prosecutors.
The investigation of the scam started Sept. 11, 2024, when a Mokena resident reported dropping more than $150,000 from an internet scam involving cryptocurrency, in accordance to a press release from the Mokena Police Division.
“The sufferer suggested that in July of 2024, they responded to an internet job advert introduced as a commission-based, distant work alternative aimed toward optimizing app builders,” police stated.
The sufferer was directed to arrange a cryptocurrency trade account and transferred funds “throughout the accounts as directed” by fraudsters for the following few months, police stated.
The investigation revealed a “portion of the funds” had been held on a cryptocurrency pockets managed by an individual with a Nigerian passport and utilizing an web protocol tackle out of Cambodia, police stated.
The monetary establishment internet hosting the cryptocurrency pockets had more than $101,000, police stated.
Police investigators and prosecutors labored to freeze and seize the funds in order that they might be returned to the sufferer, police stated.
Mokena Police Chief Brian Benton thanked the work of Mokena Police Detective Darin McVicker, who labored “vigorously to find the lost cash and to search out these accountable for committing this fraud.”
Benton additionally thanked Assistant State’s Attorneys Mike Casson and Dant Faulk for his or her help within the investigation.
“Whereas it’s unlucky that we had been unable to arrest these accountable for committing these crimes, we’re glad we had been in a position to return a major quantity of the lost cash,” Benton stated.
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