The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to recover about $65,000 in USDC linked to a cryptocurrency investment scam that allegedly cost an Ohio man nearly $200,000. A scammer posing as a financial adviser persuaded the victim to move retirement funds to Coinbase, then used remote access to the victim’s laptop to transfer the money to a crypto wallet in roughly 60 transactions. Circle froze the traced USDC, and the U.S. government is pursuing procedures to return the assets.