G. Love Loses Retirement Savings in Crypto Scam

Rob Moderelli on April 15, 2026

G. Love, photo by Marc Millman

G. Love has fallen victim to a cryptocurrency scam. The laid-back blues vocalist and harmonica player, born Garrett Dutton, shared in a Twitter thread that he’d taken for all the Bitcoin he’d saved over nearly a decade after downloading a malicious app.

I had a really tough day today I lost my retirement fund in a hack/Scam when I switched my @Ledger over to my new computer and by accident downloaded a malicious ledger app from the @Apple store. All my BTC gone in an instant.
— G. Love (@glove) April 11, 2026

Dutton has put up a good front about a hard situation. The G. Love & Special Sauce frontman shared as a cautionary tale that he’d downloaded a Mac app impersonating Ledger, a cryptocurrency asset management platform, from the Apple App Store; after entering his seed phrase, he was drained of 5.92 Bitcoin, valued at about $424,000 USD. Blockchain investigator ZachXBT traced the stolen funds to KuCoin, where the funds from more than 50 other victims to the phishing ploy, totaling more than $9.5 million in crypto assets, were laundered by more than 150 deposit addresses.

According to a report from ZachXBT, the fraudulent app remained on the App Store for nearly two more days before its removal. After the investigator traced Dutton’s stolen Bitcoin to nine transactions, KuCoin responded to the musician’s Twitter thread to note that the platform – which last year faced a $14 million anti-money laundering fine in Canada – had “temporarily frozen the suspicious account for 7 days.” “Please note that while we may assist [in] freezing the suspicious account upon receipt of relevant information or a credible complaint, such actions are still subject to due legal documents and processes to ensure compliance,” KuCoin wrote.

G. Love has been going back and forth with fans, crypto pundits and other hack victims on Twitter since the scam went down. He also posted a photo with the recently exonerated Afroman. G. Love and Special Sauce will head out on the road this summer with Donavon Frankenreiter and Moon Taxi on the Rolling Together Revue Tour, making 15 East Coast stops from June 5-28, then follow that up with a run alongside Jack Johnson in September. Find the band’s full live itinerary at philadelphonic.com.

New Day. New way
— G. Love (@glove) April 12, 2026

Thank you @smart_money for this analysis. This is all correct. And I have to say Thankyou to whoever actually sent me a couple sats that was very cool of you. Just trying to keep my head up here and breathe. Getting robbed is no joke. Thankyou for clarifying my hack 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 https://t.co/JUDMmplaf6
— G. Love (@glove) April 12, 2026