FBI Agent Stole $1 Million In Crypto & Tried to Use ChatGPT to Escape

If you're ever planning a high -stakes, million -dollar heist, and I'm not saying to do it, put down that mask and pencil.A quick word of advice, do not ask an AI chatbot that saves your search history how to flee the country.Because that is exactly how you had this top FBI agent just torpedoing his entire life.I want you to meet 37 -year -old Patrick Stephen Yurok, a former FBI counterintelligence agent assigned to monitor foreign crypto accounts.Because according to court docs, he got super frustrated that the government was not shutting these accounts down fast enough.And so he decides to take matters into his own hands.

And his genius idea was to use his top -secret security clearance to quietly siphon around a million bucks in crypto straight into his personal wallet.And the thing is, you had that being the easy part, the hard part was getting away with it.

And because he had no idea how to do that, according to the federal affidavits, he decided to log into ChatGPT to literally ask, if I had a bucket of money, around $1 million, and wanted to leave the United States to become an EU resident, what would you suggest?And you would ChatGPT's plan being for him to buy a vineyard in Portugal.Because apparently it thinks that a million bucks, not only is enough to buy a vineyard, but also retire by the time he was 40 years old.And will you rock?He took that advice as gospel, because investigators found that he booked round -trip tickets to Portugal and hired a Portuguese lawyer.With the FBI noticing the missing crypto, and last week he had agents confronting him at his house, and his official response was, quote, I fucked up.

Which, yeah, true, but also an understatement, and he was immediately fired, arrested, and he's now facing major federal charges for interstate transportation and stolen goods.With all of that bringing us to the most important advice we've said for the last 20 years, don't be stupid, stupid.