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An alleged phishing scammer going by the pseudonym Monkey Drainer has reportedly swiped round $1 million price of Ether (ETH) by way of doubtful copycat nonfungible token (NFT) minting web sites this week.
Nicely-known blockchain sleuth ZachXBT was one of many first to trace and spotlight the exercise, outlining on Oct. 26 that:
“Over the previous 24 hrs ~700 ETH ($1m) has been stolen by the phishing scammer generally known as Monkey Drainer. They just lately surpassed 7300 transactions from their drainer pockets after being round for only some months.”
“The 2 largest victims over the previous day embrace 0x02a & 0x626 who collectively misplaced $370k from signing transactions on malicious phishing websites,” ZachXBT added.
The blockchain rip-off investigator additionally went on to claim that long run, Monkey Drainer has allegedly stolen greater than $3.5 million from their schemes, with “that quantity quickly growing by every day.”
6/ Please be additional diligent earlier than visiting unknown websites, connecting your pockets, and signing transactions.
Am nonetheless away on vacation for an additional week or so however wished to get this publish out as my bot notifications have been blowing up from this.
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022
Phishing scams typically contain criminals sharing hyperlinks to web sites impersonating actual initiatives or corporations designed to dupe victims into handing over personal credentials by providing an thrilling shopping for alternative or free promotion.
4 addresses, specifically, have been flagged referring to Monkey Drainer, together with the monkey-drainer.eth handle.
Upon looking these addresses on blockchain community-driven Web3 safety community Chainabuse, it at the moment reveals a protracted checklist of experiences referring to airdrop scams, NFT scams and phishing assaults.
The reported incidents embrace airdrop scams by way of the Astrobot Society discord channel, a Pretend Wolf Sport and Bored Ape Yacht Membership market and a pretend Aptos Airdrop, to call a couple of.
Web3 safety group Pockets Guard additionally responded to ZachXBT’s Twitter thread and said that it had “noticed a number of different mint websites just lately created” that had Monkey Drainer on the backend, together with a pretend Rubbish Mates whitelist hyperlink that was a phishing web site.
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ZachXBT has turn into a revered impartial blockchain investigator over the previous couple of years, bringing to mild lots of nefarious habits within the house.
Earlier this month, the deputy chief of France’s nationwide cyber unit, Christophe Durand, even cited ZachXBT’s work for serving to officers monitor phishing scams of 5 folks suspected of stealing $2.5 million price of NFTs.
