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CASE 312 | Crypto Entrepreneur | June 2023 | Israel
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DATABASE RECORD
id 312
date June 2023
original_date June 2023
year 2023
month 6
quarter 2023-Q2
victim Crypto Entrepreneur
location Tel Aviv, Israel
country Israel
scenario Home Invasion
description Crypto entrepreneur robbed at gunpoint in his home in Tel Aviv (Hebrew)
kidnappings 1
violence_torture 1
drugs_alcohol 0
weapons 1
theft 1
life_taken 0
money_wanted undisclosed
coin_type crypto
reports Finance Magnates
notes he was forced by gunpoint to transfer all his crypto, the platforms froze the transaction. They later left an animal head at his home entrance
has_processed_date 0
created_at 2025-11-14 09:05:23
AI SUMMARY [revised on review, verified against the sources in this file. Live DB still holds the shorter bulk-import summary — apply this to it.]
**Victims:** An unnamed Israeli cryptocurrency entrepreneur, robbed in his apartment in Tel Aviv; he later left the country and was left nearly penniless.
**Attackers:** Robbers who broke into his home; the number was not specified and no arrests were reported.
**Attack Method:** About two weeks before mid-June 2023, the robbers forced their way into his Tel Aviv apartment and made him transfer his crypto holdings to wallets they controlled.
**Violence Used:** He was beaten severely and held at gunpoint; afterward a severed animal head and a hateful graffiti message were left near his door.
**Crypto Demanded/Stolen:** He was forced to transfer all of his cryptocurrency, but the platform and wallet providers froze the transfers and conversions as suspicious, so neither the robbers nor the victim retained access; the amount was not disclosed.
**Status:** He reported the robbery to police and left Israel; the Israel Police opened an investigation into the severed-animal-head and graffiti incident.
LINKED SOURCES
[url] https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/israeli-entrepreneur-was-allegedly-robbed-of-crypto-at-gunpoint/
NOTES ON THIS FILE
* matched to sheet row 160: exact match on victim + year, unique on both sides
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ARTICLE 1
Source Finance Magnates
URL https://www.financemagnates.com/cryptocurrency/israeli-entrepreneur-was-allegedly-robbed-of-crypto-at-gunpoint/
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 160, column "Articles"
Length 1,054 chars
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Gun threat: Crypto entrepreneur robbed at his home in Tel Aviv
An Israeli crypto entrepreneur reported to the police that he was robbed at his home in Tel Aviv under gun threats and was forced to transfer all of his cryptocurrency holdings to crypto wallets owned by the robbers.
The robbery happened about two weeks ago in the entrepreneurs apartment in Tel Aviv. After the robbers broke into his home, they violently beat him and forced him at gunpoint to transfer all his crypto assets to their crypto wallets.
The robbers activities were frozen by the platforms after they detected the transfers and conversions as suspicious.
Meanwhile, the entrepreneur left the country. As of today, neither the entrepreneur nor the robbers have any control over the crypto assets, which have been frozen by the platforms, and he is left almost destitute.
Today, a severed animal head was placed near the entrepreneurs door, along with a hateful graffiti message. The Israel Police announced that an investigation has been opened regarding this incident.
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ARTICLE 2
Source Finance Magnates
URL (no URL recorded for this column)
Origin reported_K&R sheet, row 160, column "Article 2"
Length 2,828 chars
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Israeli Entrepreneur Was Allegedly Robbed of Crypto at Gunpoint
Thursday, 15/06/2023 | 12:07 GMT-3 by Solomon Oladipupo
The cryptocurrencies have been reportedly frozen by receive wallet provider.
The entrepreneur has left Israel and the unnamed person remains almost penniless.
An Israeli crypto entrepreneur was reportedly robbed of his digital assets at gunpoint in his Tel Aviv home two weeks ago, according to the Israeli financial site, Globes on Wednesday. The entrepreneur, whose identity has not been revealed, told police that robbers broke into his home, beat him mercilessly, and forced him to transfer all of his crypto holdings to their wallets.
Israeli Entrepreneur Robbed
However, the outlet said the transactions were frozen by the wallet provider after they became suspicious of transfers and conversions done with the wallet. As a result, neither the robbers nor the entrepreneur has access to the cryptocurrencies stored in the wallet.
According to Globes, the entrepreneur has now left Israel and remains nearly penniless.
Old School Robbers Are after Crypto
Cryptocurrencies are kept and held digitally. Unlike cash, there is no physical form of cryptocurrency that anyone can rob. These crypto wallets are encrypted, and only the unique private keys can access the stored cryptocurrencies.
However, digitally held cryptocurrencies are vulnerable. Cybercriminals have attacked numerous cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers, stealing hundreds of millions of dollars of crypto every year.
Crypto cyber thieves target individuals with phishing and other sophisticated tactics to steal their digital currency holdings. Earlier this week, the Wallingford Police Department in the US State of Connecticut said that a town resident was coerced towards paying the sum of $19,000 in Bitcoin by a scammer posing as a computer service representative. In another recent incident, a man from Iowa lost more than $232,000 in a cryptocurrency-romance scam.
However, cybercriminals are not the only ones after cryptocurrencies. Though incidents are rare, several robbers also tried to rob cryptocurrencies from people at gunpoint. In 2018, a cryptocurrency trader in Englands Oxfordshire reported to the authorities that four masked robbers had broken into his house and robbed all of his Bitcoin. In another armed robbery, a Russian crypto blogger lost $425,000 worth of bitcoin in the same year.
The intensity of the crimes increases significantly sometimes, as Pavel Lerner, a Managing Director of cryptocurrency exchange EXMO, was kidnapped in Ukraines Kyiv in December 2017 and was released after paying a ransom of $1 million in Bitcoin. Furthermore, another New Jersey man was kidnapped at gunpoint and was forced to give up the password of his crypto wallet that contained $1.8 million in Ether.
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