Japanese authorities have arrested a gang of scammers by analyzing Monero transactions for the first time in crypto history.

A group of 18 scammers has been under investigation since Aug 2024 by a Japanese cybercrime unit formed in Apr 2024.

The authorities have analyzed about 900 of the group’s Monero XMR-based money-laundering transactions for $670k, by a simple timing & amount analysis. 

 Suspicious... in Monero you can’t know the sender, the receiver and the amount.  Except having access to the wallet there is probably a lie around