Secret Service quietly accumulates bitcoins. US services already have digital assets worth USD 400 million.
Secret Service collects btc
Secret Service took over almost USD 400 million in digital assets from criminals. The services have done this over the past decade. He reached the data Bloomberg – The magazine refers to people familiar with the case.
The Global Center for Investigative Operations (GIOC), i.e. part of the Agency, is supposed to follow the funds of criminals using Open Source tools. In this way, stolen cryptocurrencies manage to take over.
Bloomberg He says that most of the digital asset of the services are on one wallet. It contains means taken over by criminals – most often those who stand behind the scams.
Criminals still use the so -called Slaughter of pigs. This is a particularly cynical practice because it uses … loneliness. Fraudsters impersonate attractive women or men, look for contact with victims on dating sites and there they urge them to invest in cryptocurrencies. Of course, the latter steal.
In addition, Secret Service noticed that some criminals simply blackmail their victims, e.g. suggest that they have compromising recordings. It is known that one of the investigations concerned a teenager from Idaho, who sent his newly met person on the network his naked photos. The fraudster twice scattered 300 USD from him. At the third blackmail, the teenager reported the case to the police.
In 2024, Americans reported a total of $ 9.3 billion in USD stolen as part of cryptocurrency scams. In the first half of 2025, losses caused by hacker attacks, fraud and exploits generated over USD 2.47 billion, which is an increase of almost 3% compared to USD 2.4 billion from 2024.
Will cryptocurrencies supply the US cryptoscarb?
It is worth adding that the above data on cryptocurrencies owned by Secret Service appear at a time when in the USA you talk about how to add more bitcoins to the cryptoskarbca country. For now, the law that applies in the power allows you to enrich the reserve only by ways that are neutral for the budget. In other words, you can add cryptocurrencies that were confiscated by criminals.
