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After losing $8,000 in an altcoin scam, one man started a group that hunts down crypto frauds
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Robert Browning hunts crypto scammers.
In a Bloomberg article titled "How Crypto Vigilantes Are Hunting Scams in a $100 Billion Market," the 52-year-old from southern Indiana explained how he went from scammed to scam hunter.
Browning told Bloomberg he became a fraud victim on July 11 when a bet he made on a coin called Altex plummeted from $8,200 to $86, and he got that feeling «where you can't swallow, because you feel so used and so rejected.»
The occurrence caused him to start a group of crypto fraud hunters called the RugSeekers, who find scam coins through group chats on places like Telegram and then spread the word on social media, Bloomberg wrote.
RugSeekers did not immediately respond to Insider's
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