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A San Francisco thief posing as a delivery person stole a victim\u2019s cellphone, laptop, and $11 million worth of cryptocurrency on Saturday. REUTERS<\/p>\n
The faux courier quickly dropped the act by brandishing a gun and tying up the victim with duct tape, the police report detailed, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear if the victim was injured or if any arrests have been made following the incident. <\/p>\n
Additional details about the suspect and the heist were not released by cops.The San Francisco Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Post.<\/p>\n
The robbery comes amid a rise in violent kidnappings and attempted robberies of crypto investors<\/a>. <\/p>\n In March, a group of burglars attempted to steal cryptocurrency from the home of influencer Amouranth, whose real name is Kaitlyn Siragusa. She earns around\u00a0$2 million a month from selling videos<\/a>\u00a0on OnlyFans and gaming on Twitch.<\/p>\n In May, crypto bros <\/a>John Woeltz, 37, and William Duplessie, 33,\u00a0were accused of kidnapping and torturing an Italian millionaire,<\/a> Michael Valentino Teofrasto Carturan, inside a New York City townhouse for his Bitcoin password.<\/p>\n The digital currency is much harder to trace than dollars, and considerably easier for thieves to launder. <\/p>\n \u201cKidnappings of crypto investors are definitely on the rise,\u201d Steve Krystek, CEO of PFC Safeguards, a personal security company, previously told The Post.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the people who come into this money are flashy, and they\u2019re signaling that they have wealth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An armed thief posing as a delivery worker invaded a San Francisco home, tied up the homeowner, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[7,28619,18366,23693,101,103,102,104,106,105,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-67032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-cryptocurrency","10":"tag-home-invasion","11":"tag-robberies","12":"tag-san-francisco","13":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","14":"tag-san-francisco-news","15":"tag-sf","16":"tag-sf-headlines","17":"tag-sf-news","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Two](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/110627264.jpg\")
The robbery comes amid a rise in violent kidnappings and attempted robberies of crypto investors. Walter Cicchetti \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n