加州Santa Ana男子Marlon Ferro参与2.5亿美元加密货币盗窃团伙被判78个月：专责入室盗走硬件钱包，赔偿250万美元
美国司法部华盛顿特区联邦检察官办公室宣布，来自加利福尼亚州Santa Ana的20岁男子Marlon Ferro因参与一个盗取逾2.5亿美元加密货币的大型社会工程诈骗团伙，被联邦地区法院判处78个月（6年半）联邦监禁。Ferro绰号「GothFerrari」，已于2025年10月17日在法官Colleen Kollar-Kotelly前就一项共谋参与敲诈勒索组织（RICO）罪名认罪；法官另判其刑满后接受3年监管释放，并赔偿250万美元。
联邦检察官Jeanine Ferris Pirro表示：「Marlon Ferro是这个犯罪企业的『最后手段』。当他的同伙无法骗取受害人交出加密货币访问权限、或无法黑入数字账户时，他们就让Ferro破门入室、直接盗走硬件钱包。」她称，这套手法把复杂的网络诈骗与老式的入室盗窃结合起来，从受害人处榨走数百万美元数字资产。
法庭文件显示，一项历时多年的联邦调查揭露，该团伙在2023年末至2025年初间从全美受害人处诈取逾2.5亿美元加密货币；成员分布在加利福尼亚州、康涅狄格州、纽约州、佛罗里达州与海外，分工包括数据库黑客、目标筛选、诈骗电话、洗钱与住宅入室盗窃。团伙通常锁定持有大量加密货币的人，先以精心设计的诈骗手法骗其交出钱包权限；当受害人把资产存在无法远程访问的硬件钱包里时，便轮到Ferro入室行窃。
2024年2月，Ferro前往德州Winnsboro，闯入一名受害人家中，盗走一个装有约100枚比特币的硬件钱包，当时价值逾500万美元，其后经加密货币交易所洗钱。2024年7月，他又飞往新墨西哥州，连续数日监视一处住宅、在屋外放置手机监控受害人行踪，待同伙通过受害人的iCloud账户确认其离家后，用砖头砸窗入室搜寻硬件钱包，被受害人家的监控摄像头拍下。
Ferro还是团伙的关键洗钱者：他用从一名外国人处取得的假证件在一家受地域封锁的平台开设数字支付卡账户，供团伙在Miami等地零售店与夜店花销赃款，并曾用赃款为同伙购买逾25.5万美元的设计师服装。团伙一名头目2024年9月被捕入狱后，Ferro继续在外协助：从其他成员处收集数十万美元加密货币、经非法交易所换成现金支付该头目的律师费，并安排购买爱马仕铂金包送给该头目的女友。赃款还被用于单晚高达50万美元的夜店消费、单价10万至50多万美元的奢侈腕表、Los Angeles与Hamptons及Miami的租赁豪宅、私人飞机与一支单辆价值10万至380万美元的豪华车队。
Ferro于2025年5月13日被捕，被捕时持有两支枪械与一份假证件。本案由华盛顿特区联邦检察官办公室、FBI华盛顿外勤办公室与国税局刑事调查局（IRS-CI）华盛顿外勤办公室调查，FBI的Los Angeles与Miami外勤办公室提供重要支援；助理联邦检察官Christopher Howland与David Liss起诉，案件号为24cr417。
Santa Ana Man Marlon Ferro, 'GothFerrari,' Sentenced to 78 Months in $250 Million Cryptocurrency Heist: Burglar Who Stole Hardware Homes' Wallets Must Pay $2.5 Million
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced that Marlon Ferro, 20, of Santa Ana, California, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 78 months in prison for his role in a sprawling social engineering conspiracy that stole well over $250 million in cryptocurrency from victims across the United States. Ferro, known as 'GothFerrari,' pleaded guilty on October 17, 2025, before Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to one count of conspiracy to participate in a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization. Judge Kollar-Kotelly also ordered three years of supervised release and $2.5 million in restitution.
'Marlon Ferro served as the criminal enterprise's instrument of last resort. When his co-conspirators couldn't deceive victims into handing over access to their cryptocurrency or hack their way into digital accounts, they turned to Ferro to break into homes and steal hardware wallets outright,' said U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. 'This scheme blended sophisticated online fraud with old-fashioned burglary to drain victims of millions of dollars in digital assets.'
According to court documents, a multi-year federal investigation uncovered an enterprise that defrauded victims of more than $250 million in cryptocurrency between late 2023 and early 2025. Its members, based in California, Connecticut, New York, Florida and abroad, played specialized roles including database hacking, target identification, fraudulent phone calls, money laundering and residential burglary. Operatives targeted people believed to hold significant cryptocurrency, manipulating them into surrendering access to their digital wallets; when victims stored assets in hardware wallets that cannot be accessed remotely, the enterprise turned to Ferro.
In February 2024, Ferro traveled to Winnsboro, Texas, broke into a victim's home and stole a hardware wallet containing about 100 bitcoin, then worth more than $5 million, laundering the funds through cryptocurrency exchanges. In July 2024, he flew to New Mexico, surveilled a residence for several days with a cell phone positioned outside to monitor the victim, and, once co-conspirators tracking the victim through his iCloud account signaled he had left, smashed a window with a brick and searched for the target hardware wallet; he was captured on the victim's home surveillance camera.
Ferro was also a key money launderer for the enterprise. He used fraudulent identification obtained from a foreign national to open a digital payment card account at a geo-blocked platform, bought more than $255,000 in designer clothing for co-conspirators with stolen funds, and, after a leader was arrested in September 2024, collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency from other members, converted it to cash through illicit exchanges to pay the leader's attorneys, and arranged Hermès Birkin bags for the leader's girlfriend. Stolen funds also bought nightclub services of up to $500,000 per evening, luxury watches, rental homes in Los Angeles, the Hamptons and Miami, private jet rentals and a fleet of exotic cars valued from $100,000 to $3.8 million.
Ferro was arrested on May 13, 2025, in possession of two firearms and a fake identification document. The case was investigated by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the FBI's Washington Field Office and IRS Criminal Investigation's Washington Field Office, with support from the FBI's Los Angeles and Miami field offices. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Christopher Howland and David Liss prosecuted the case, docket 24cr417.
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