#数字货币市场洞察 22-Year-Old California Man Convicted of Laundering $263 Million in Crypto Scam

The US Department of Justice recently announced a major case: Evan Tangeman, a young man from California, has pleaded guilty to laundering money for a large-scale crypto scam ring. The scale of this case is staggering—the amount involved reached $263 million, and Tangeman himself laundered over $3.5 million.

He is the ninth suspect to plead guilty in this investigation. The scam ring operated from October 2023 to May 2025, during which approximately 4,100 $BTC were stolen, worth $263 million at the time. At today’s prices, this Bitcoin would be valued at around $371 million.

The group operated in a highly professional manner—with clear divisions of labor: hackers were responsible for infiltrating websites and servers to obtain cryptocurrency-related databases; organizers coordinated the overall operation; specialists identified the most valuable victims from the stolen data; phone scammers directly contacted targets; and there were even burglars tasked with stealing hardware wallets. The entire operation chain was well-structured, from database breaches and target identification to wallet theft, with dedicated personnel for each step. This also serves as a reminder to all crypto asset holders that security precautions need to be multi-layered and comprehensive.