The New York Attorney General, Letitia James, has filed a lawsuit to reclaim 2.2 million USD in frozen USDT and USDC stablecoins from scammers who used fake remote job offers to deceive PEOPLE. Victims, misled to think their deposits were for remuneration, were scammed into putting funds into wallets controlled by scammers.

To combat these scams, the lawsuit by the Attorney General takes a new approach: notifying the alleged scammers by an NFT airdrop to their wallets. This innovative method is aimed at legally informing them about the suit and barring further fraudulent activities, underscoring the seriousness of this scam impacting New Yorkers.