People are robbed all the time for all kinds of things. Their expensive watches, cell phones, wallets, you name it. It's only now and then that people are robbed of their bitcoins, and usually this happens through hacking or some other digital means.

Not so in the case of a young man who, for whatever reason, decided to sell $1,100 worth (roughly four and change at current rates) via Craigslist. According to CNBC, an unidentified man showed up to the designated meeting place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and soon found himself at the wrong end of two pistols.

It was a classic Craigslist crime. The same methodology is used to heist all kinds of goods, not just digital currency. The seller is comforted by the presence of a single buyer, led to another location where he is ambushed by the supposed buyer and an accomplice. In this case, they forced the seller to make the transfer and then also stole his phone.