This guy impersonated Uber drivers and STOLE $300K in crypto from their phones

In 2024, a 40 year old man named Nuruhussein Hussein started waiting outside
the W Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona, a luxury hotel where wealthy crypto traders stayed during conferences
When a guest ordered a real Uber, he would pull up, call them by their name before the actual driver arrived
Once the car was moving he would tell them his phone died or the Uber app was broken and ask to borrow their unlocked phone for directions
The moment he had the phone in his hand, he opened their wallet and transferred their Bitcoin straight into his own wallet
He handed the phone back, dropped them off and just drove away
The victims usually didn't notice anything was wrong until they got an email hours later confirming they sent out thousands of dollars in crypto
When one victim asked for his phone back too quickly, Hussein told him to "chill out" and said "if you don't chill, something bad is going to happen" while a loaded gun sat in the center console between them
He pulled this off at the same hotel, on the same street corner, for nine months straight
In total he stole over $300,000 from at least two crypto holders before the US Secret Service joined the Scottsdale Police to track him down
The lead detective on the case called it one of the most unusual fraud schemes he had ever seen and said it was extraordinarily rare to even be able to trace it back to a local suspect
To this day, no one has explained how he knew the victims' names before they ever got in his car