On April 19, according to the Xiamen Procuratorial Public Account, in September 2021, the defendant, a man surnamed Chen, met the victim Hong through a friend's introduction. At that time, Hong had a strong interest in virtual currency investment, and Chen had some involvement in this. Hong entrusted Chen to help with virtual currency investment, and informed him of his account and login password without warning.

陈某在帮朋友投资期货时遭遇了亏损债务如山般压得他喘不过气来在此困境下，心生邪念。 At the end of September 2022, Chen fabricated the lie that his account was disconnected, and used it to trick Hong into various verification codes. He then successfully changed the login password of the account and changed the email address bound to his own email address.之后，陈某一次又一次地以账号掉线为由，通过实时验证码持续将洪某账户内的虚拟币秘密转入自己的账户。随后，他迅速将这些虚拟币变卖，获利 160 余万元，并全部用于偿还个人债务。

The Huli District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Chen for the crime of theft in accordance with the law. According to Article 264 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, if theft of public and private property is particularly huge or there are other particularly serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall be fined or confiscated of property.

After trial, the court sentenced Chen to eleven years in prison and a fine for the crime of theft.