ChainCatcher message, according to official documents, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio has filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit regarding funds that were defrauded in a cryptocurrency investment scam. It is reported that an elderly male resident of Trumbull County and his sister lost over $1.6 million. The scam began in November 2024, when the victims received messages from strangers and established contact with the scammers on the Telegram platform, where they were lured into transferring funds to a fake investment platform.

Federal investigators traced approximately $200,000 of the stolen funds through blockchain analysis and have frozen $325,060 worth of USDT tokens. The FBI's Cleveland office is actively investigating this case and related cryptocurrency fraud cases, and the U.S. government plans to return the recovered funds to the victims.