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Ten years of careful saving wiped out in a single afternoon. That’s what happened to Garrett Dutton, the American musician known as G. Love, who lost 5.9 Bitcoin — worth roughly $420,000 — after a malicious app tricked him into giving away the one thing he was never supposed to share. A Retirement Fund Built Over Years Dutton had been stacking Bitcoin since 2017, treating it as a long-term retirement plan. On Saturday, he posted about the loss on X, telling his 67,500 followers the coins had vanished in an instant. Garrett Dutton, aka G Love. Source: The Ark He said he downloaded what appeared to be the Ledger Live app — a self-custody crypto application — from Apple’s App Store on a new MacBook. The app was fake. Once inside, it prompted him to enter his seed phrase. He did. The money was gone. “I been in the crypto circus since 2017,” he wrote in a follow-up post. “Today they caught me off guard. It was my own damn fault for not being more diligent. But let it serve as a warning. There’s so many scams.” Blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced the stolen funds shortly after, finding that the Bitcoin had been moved to deposit addresses tied to the crypto exchange KuCoin across nine separate transactions. > I had a really tough day today I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my @Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the @Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant. — G. Love (@glove) April 11, 2026 KuCoin responded to ZachXBT’s post with a statement typically addressed to its customers. Dutton did not disclose which link led him to the fraudulent download. Fake Wallet Apps Have Fooled People Before This is not the first time scammers have pulled off this exact move. Back in 2023, a counterfeit version of the Ledger Live app appeared on Microsoft’s app store and drained nearly $600,000 from multiple users before it was removed. Hi I traced out your 5.92 BTC stolen and it was all laundered via @kucoincom deposit addresses in the following transactions: ...
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