According to BlockBeats, on September 5, Protos reported that a 19-year-old Singaporean cryptocurrency trader was ambushed by two men when he tried to exchange 32,000 Singapore dollars (about 24,000 US dollars) for USDT. They punched him and chased him through a nearby shopping mall, forcing him to abandon the face-to-face transaction.

The teenager, known only as “ZK,” was attacked by two men while meeting a cryptocurrency seller in a parking lot on August 29. ZK said the two men looked like “ordinary pedestrians” as the transaction was taking place, and one of them suddenly punched him in the left face as they passed by.