A team of tech-savvy scam artists stole millions in a nation-wide cryptocurrency con that duped unsuspecting victims, including some in New York, searching for remote work into transferring money in the fraudsters’ digital wallets Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday.

New Yorkers lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to a network of scammers that targeted people who were looking for remote jobs, according to Attorney General Letitia James. In one case, she said, a single New York resident was convinced to hand the scammers more than $100,