Jacob Irwin-Cline said that he doubts he will ever recover the stolen crypto, which represents his life savings.
An American tourist in the United Kingdom was reportedly drugged by an individual posing as a taxi driver, who stole the tourist’s $123,000 in Bitcoin stored on a cell phone.
According to a report from My London, Jacob Irwin-Cline went out to a London bar and had several drinks before calling an Uber to take him home.
Cline said that he did not thoroughly check the details of the Uber ride on his phone and left with a random private cab driver resembling the Uber driver at first glance, but driving a different vehicle — a detail Cline would only discover after the incident.
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