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Instagram big boy Jay Mazini caught in Bitcoin scam web, steals over $2.5 million from unsuspecting

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| 2021-03-26 16:27

Abstract：Instagram big boy Jay Mazini caught in Bitcoin scam web, steals over $2.5 million from unsuspecting victims

Jay Mazini, a popular Instagram influencer has been caught in a Bitcoin scam web. He has been accused by U.S. law enforcement of being the brain behind a million-dollar Bitcoin scam scheme.

Heres the backstory…

Jegara Igbara, aka Jay Mazini, is a popular Instagram figure when it comes to giveaways. He is known to give huge sums of money to strangers. In the course of his charity work, Manzini has had collaborations with rapper 50 Cent and reggaeton singer Nicky Jam to give away money to employees working at a fast-food restaurant.

Sadly, beyond his giveaways, the influencer appears to have had other intentions. Amid the Bitcoin boom, Mazini began posting ads on his Instagram stories with an offer to buy Bitcoins at premiums of 5% above market value. According to him, he wanted large amounts and crypto exchanges wouldnt allow him to buy.

While this raised a lot of red flags because there are P2P platforms like Localbitcoins, some of his followers decided to do business with him. They would send him Bitcoins after he had sent images of payment.

The supposed fiat payments were all doctored images and the money was never received. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Jay Mazini relied on the trust he had built as a popular influencer to scam unsuspecting victims. The government agency wrote:

As we allege, Igbara‘s social media persona served as a backdrop for enticing victims to sell him their Bitcoin at attractive, but inflated, values. A behind-the-scenes look, however, revealed things aren’t always as they seem. There was nothing philanthropic about the Bitcoin transactions Igbara engaged in with his victims. A quick search of the Interwebs today will reveal an entirely different image of this multimillion-dollar scammer.

Mazini was able to swindle his followers up to the tune of $2.5 million. The long arm of the law appears to have caught up with his and if convicted, he could face up to 20 years imprisonment.

The lesson here is simple. All that glitters is not gold.

Crypto-related scams are on the rise. According to data from the eNational Fraud Intelligence Bureau, the number of crypto-related has doubled since last year. Meanwhile, the number of victims within the same period has almost tripled.

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