New York's attorney general says scammers stole millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from people seeking remote work opportunities as part of an elaborate scheme.

One New Yorker lost $100,000 in the scam, which tricked people hunting for jobs into thinking they could earn money from working from home, only to steal their funds in the form of cryptocurrency.

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,