He stole $24 million in crypto — and blew it all on escorts, nightclubs, and a $100,000 Rolex.
Then the FBI came knocking.
This is the craziest SIM swap scam you’ve probably never heard about.
Crypto investor Michael Turpin had just wrapped up a conference when it happened.
Across the country, a crew of teenagers were bribing telecom employees to hijack his phone number.
At the center of it all?
15-year-old Ellis Pinsky.
From a Skype call, Ellis ran scripts that tore through Turpin’s digital life — emails, cloud storage, everything — in search of wallet keys.
Finally, they struck gold:
$900 million worth of ETH.
But it was locked.
So they kept digging.