The $16,500,000 Minecraft Scammer Mistake: He Stole Bitcoin. Then It Exploded. In July 2020, the Twitter accounts of Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Bill Gates simultaneously tweeted a Bitcoin scam. The world assumed a sophisticated state actor was behind the breach. The truth was stranger: a 17-year-old from Tampa named Graham Ivan Clark, who learned his craft scamming players in Minecraft. This is the story of the $16.5 million mistake. This documentary traces Clark’s evolution from a teenager running petty grifts in virtual game worlds to the mastermind of the most high-profile social media hack in history. Viewers will learn how he perfected SIM-swapping techniques to steal 164 Bitcoin from a Seattle investor at age 16, why law enforcement declined to arrest him despite knowing his identi
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