Christian d’Ippolito was near Old Street roundabout in the early morning, heading home after a night out. D’Ippolito, 42, sees himself as “pretty street-smart”. He has worked with disaffected young people and given workshops in prisons.
So he didn’t feel threatened when four men started to talk to him. Then one grabbed his iPhone from his hand. After a chase, the thieves fled in a car.
As the car disappeared, d’Ippolito accepted that he’d lost his iPhone. But his plight was actually much worse: he was about to lose his life savings. Over the next few hours, he says, his crypto wallet was emptied of nearly £40,000 worth of assets.
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