冒充技术支持骗走加州受害人185枚比特币：加拿大男子Johnston在Miami被判已服刑期满、交出约380万美元赃款
据加拿大广播公司（CBC）报道，美国 Florida 州 Miami 的一名联邦法官10月26日判处20岁的加拿大公民 Trenton Richard David Johnston 已服刑期满（time served）：他冒充技术支持人员骗取加密货币持有人的钱包密码、从一名 California 受害人手中骗走185枚比特币，并已交出约380万美元赃款；他自2026年3月被捕后一直被羁押。Johnston 此前已就一项洗钱共谋罪认罪，检方按认罪协议撤销了电汇诈骗共谋指控——两项指控并罚时他原面临最高20年监禁。
法院文件显示，美国国土安全调查局（HSI）查明，Johnston 冒充 Google 技术支持人员与加密货币公司代表，说服受害人交出加密货币钱包的密码。在其中一案中，他与一名未具名的同伙从一名 California 受害人手中骗走其毕生积蓄——185枚比特币，按当时价格约合1300万美元。他在给同伙的短信中写道：「我们今天正好砸中了一个185枚比特币的目标」「俱乐部感觉太好了」，并称「我们还没完」。检方称，他在 Miami 地区过着「奢华的夜生活与娱乐生活方式」，赃款花在了一辆高性能 Lamborghini Aventador SVJ、两辆 BMW、珠宝与私人飞机租赁上；一名证人对调查人员说，Johnston 还曾通过社交平台 Discord 共享屏幕、向他人演示作案手法。
Johnston 的被捕过程同样张扬：2026年3月，他坐在一辆 Rolls-Royce Cullinan 越野车的后座上在 North Miami 被拦下，车内有刚燃过的大麻气味，他随身的 Hermès 包里被搜出疑似苯丙胺药片——这项 Florida 州毒品持有指控目前仍在处理中。他2024年10月从加拿大 Ontario 省 Fort Erie 过境到 New York 州 Buffalo 时年仅18岁，其后逾期滞留12个月的旅游签证；而辩方律师在上周提交的法院文件中披露，他的诈骗早在2024年1月、年仅17岁时就已开始。
辩护律师 Brooke C. Watson 在文件中写道，Johnston 被捕后「交出了他持有的全部被盗加密货币」，约380万美元的比特币与以太币，并称他「很快承认了自己的行为、非常后悔」。检方则表示，Johnston 对其他未具名人员的调查与起诉提供了「重大协助」。他今年4月已同意一名移民法官发出的遣返令，何时获释目前尚不清楚；预计他最终将被移交美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）遣返回加拿大。
Canadian Man Who Posed as Tech Support to Steal 185 Bitcoin Sentenced to Time Served in Miami, Hands Over About $3.8 Million
A U.S. federal judge in Miami, Florida, on October 26 sentenced Trenton Richard David Johnston, a 20-year-old Canadian citizen, to time served for a cryptocurrency theft scheme in which he posed as a tech support worker and swindled 185 bitcoin from a California victim, according to CBC News. Johnston, who has been in custody since his March 2026 arrest, handed over about $3.8 million in stolen cryptocurrency. He had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering; under the plea deal, prosecutors withdrew a wire fraud conspiracy charge — on both counts together he had faced up to 20 years in prison.
According to court documents, U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) found that Johnston impersonated Google tech support staff and representatives of crypto firms to convince victims to share the codes to their cryptocurrency wallets. In one instance, he and an unnamed co-conspirator swindled a California victim out of his life savings — 185 bitcoin, worth about $13 million at the time. "We actually smacked a 185btc target today," Johnston wrote in text messages to his accomplice, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Miami. "Club feels mad good after today," he added. "And we ain't done." Prosecutors said Johnston splurged on an extravagant nightlife and entertainment lifestyle in the Miami area, spending on a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ, two BMWs, jewelry and a private jet rental. A witness told investigators Johnston showed others how he carried out the thefts by sharing his screen over the social platform Discord.
Johnston was arrested in March 2026 in North Miami, seated in the back of a Rolls-Royce Cullinan SUV that smelled of freshly burned marijuana, with suspected amphetamine tablets found in a Hermes bag — a Florida state drug possession charge from that arrest is still pending. He had crossed from Fort Erie, Ontario, to Buffalo, New York, in October 2024 at age 18 and overstayed his 12-month tourist visa; his scheme, his defence lawyer revealed in a court filing last week, had started months earlier, in January 2024, when he was 17.
Defence lawyer Brooke C. Watson wrote that after his arrest Johnston "turned over all of the stolen cryptocurrency in his possession," approximately $3.8 million in bitcoin and ether, and that he "quickly admitted his conduct and is tremendously sorry for what he has done." Prosecutors said Johnston provided substantial assistance in the investigation and prosecution of other unnamed individuals. He agreed in April to a removal order issued by a U.S. immigration judge; it is unclear when he will be released from custody, and he is expected eventually to be handed over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportation to Canada.
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图片来源：位于 Florida 州 Miami 的 David W. Dyer 联邦大楼与联邦法院（佛罗里达南区联邦法院所在地之一），本案在此量刑。Ebyabe 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / The David W. Dyer Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Miami, Florida, a Southern District of Florida courthouse where Johnston was sentenced. Photo by Ebyabe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
