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Elderly California Man Made a Friend at McDonald’s—Then His $100K in Crypto Started Disappearing

Elderly California Man Made a Friend at McDonald’s—Then His $100K in Crypto Started Disappearing

A man in his 20s from Simi Valley, California, allegedly used a friendship he had built at a local fast-food restaurant to extort a large sum of money in cryptocurrency from an elderly man. According to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office, William Bao Khoa Ly, 26, met the 89-year-old victim in June 2024 at