Tether Freezes Wallets Linked to $666,000 in Illicit USDT After Dark Web Laundering Service Purchase

Foresight News posted on X (formerly Twitter). A threat actor bought a money-laundering service on a dark web forum to clean cryptocurrency and received 666,000 USDT in purportedly clean funds, according to on-chain investigator @osint_based. Days later, Tether froze all related wallets.Investigators said the clean funds were actually traced to an American victim of a pig butchering scam. The case became public after a dispute between the two parties on the same forum.