While Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has long been known and celebrated for his groundbreaking contributions to the smartphone industry and his excellence in technology, he has recently been garnering attention for completely different reasons. Wozniak, while speaking to CBS News in one of its segments around internet scammers, addressed the troubling rise in cryptocurrency scams that use images without consent in order to lure victims into sending Bitcoin. The script followed is now familiar, with the victim urged to send a specific amount of Bitcoin with the promise to receive back twice the given amount. In reality, the money vanishes as soon as it is handed over, leaving many ripped off of their life savings.

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