The DOJ Seemingly Outed Top Crypto Executives as Falling for a Nigerian Crypto Scam

The DOJ revealed “Ivan” and “Mouna” as paying $250,000 in Ethereum to a scammer pretending to be from Donald Trump’s inaugural committee.

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The Department of Justice is trying to recoup funds from an alleged Nigerian scammer who convinced victims to transfer the equivalent of $250,000 in the cryptocurrency Ethereum as a supposed donation to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.

The DOJ, however, only lists two people as falling prey to the scam: “Ivan” and “Mouna,” according to the department’s complaint to the court, first reported by NOTUS.

Those are the same first names as the chief executive officer and U.S. chief financial officer of the crypto company MoonPay, Ivan Soto-Wright and Mouna Ammari Siala. The wallet used to pay the alleged scammer has also previously been publicly linked to Soto-Wright.