TechFlame News - According to Decrypt, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts, USA, have filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit seeking to seize approximately $3.4 million worth of USDT, alleging that the funds were proceeds from cryptocurrency investment fraud and money laundering. Prosecutors claim that since late 2024, victims were approached through methods such as "wrong-number text messages," and after establishing contact via WhatsApp, Telegram, and other platforms, they were persuaded to invest in an exclusive Ethereum project purportedly backed by physical gold. In practice, victims were instructed to transfer ETH to intermediary wallets, which were then converted into USDT and moved to non-custodial wallets to conceal the source and ownership of the funds.