Recently, a student from the University of Kent in London was robbed with a knife for his Bitcoin. After eight thugs broke into his dorm room and demanded that he reveal his encrypted credentials and passwords, the student was forced off campus and returned home.
Freshman college student loses bitcoin in campus heist
A recent report showed that a college student who started the year as a freshman was robbed at the University of Kent, a school located in the historic city of Canterbury. The student’s mother explains that five days before the start of the course, her son started talking about cryptocurrencies with a friend from school.
“They were only talking about boys. [Then] Conversation switched to [finance] The student’s mother explained: “And the friend started talking about electronic currency. After the discussion, the boy’s friend claimed that the student had brought eight friends from East London to visit the student’s room and “he knew right away that he was in trouble,” his mother announced.
The student says his bitcoin stock was worth about £6,000 ($8,200) at the time he was robbed. But now the bitcoin stock itself is worth £68,000 ($93,000), and a gang of thugs stole £3,000 worth of his school scholarship money. Then the student called the police and ran to the security hut and the student’s mother said that the security guards did not go to the crime scene. The police never arrived because there were more important things to consider that evening. The student’s mother confirmed:
The only action the university took was to move him to different accommodations. He was very traumatized so he went home even though he had better and safer housing.
Police drop case 8 months later, mother warns of ‘new London hunting week’
To make matters worse, the money was never returned to the student. The Canterbury County Police Department dropped the case eight months later. The mother stated that she was upset that Kent security guards and police had done nothing. She also warned other new students that the same thing could happen to them.
“The police usually call the newcomers ‘hunting week’ because all the criminals get off,” she said. “They know that students have been given grants, laptops and new things. Attacks, assaults and theft are very common across the country,” the student’s mother added.
The fact of the matter is that it is not wise to disclose your crypto-asset holdings to others, unless you truly trust them. Bitcoin thefts have been happening for years, but there has been an increase in cryptocurrency heists increasing violence to steal bitcoin or other digital assets, since the massive rise in the value of the crypto economy during the latter half of 2020.
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