{"id":355613,"date":"2026-09-24T12:04:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:04:45","slug":"brooklyn-man-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison-over-16m-coinbase-phishing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355613\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man sentenced to 12 years in prison over $16M Coinbase phishing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The attorney general\u2019s office has also ordered Spektor to forfeit cash, cryptocurrency and personal property with an estimated value of more than half a million dollars and make restitution of almost $16 million.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into Spektor\u2019s criminal activities revealed he laundered the digital assets by swapping them across multiple crypto exchanges and consolidating them at \u201ccash-out points.\u201d He then converted them into other cryptocurrencies and placed bets, before converting them into cash with which he purchased gift cards or additional digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoinbase and most other companies will never call customers or ask to transfer crypto to a \u2018safe wallet\u2019. Don\u2019t trust caller ID, sender names or lookalike domains that can be spoofed,\u201d Gonzalez said, adding that scammers rely on urgency and pressure, so \u201cnever move money in a rush.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attorney general\u2019s office has also ordered Spektor to forfeit cash, cryptocurrency and personal property with an estimated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[132492,98,100,99,63702,396,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-355613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bitcoin-crime","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-coinbase","tag-fraud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}