understand the power of a telegram group. Even a tele full of non-devs who can't even register a domain name. π€«
Ffs I get some work done and it went from like 20 ppl without a token name or a domain name or a fucking clue to 600+ people begging for drops.
This is for sure the future of finance folks.
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The F U T U R E of finance folks. πππ
If you're the type of person who sees a cashtag on twitter and immediately buys it I would strongly recommend burning your computer. It's far less proactively selfdestructive and will hurt less. π³
lol im caught up in this entire mess because someone was trolling @AlexMasmej πππππ
Okay seriously this was annoying the fuck out of me bc based on what I saw when I looked at the chat for like a literal minute around 2pm PT, there was no way this was or was going to be an actual thing.
Yet an hour later I'm blasted on all sides by outraged anon degen dudes.
The easy answer is frogs are salty cuz they missed out. But. In order to miss out...wait...how the fuck did this thing that maybe had a name, still had no url, no devs, how did it launch a token and give it to people and get it on uniswap and pump the price in an hour?
Everyone in the chat i know & most I've met irl like @AlexMasmej@defidude@sassal0x@Steven_McKie. Sure, some can get a bit defi shilly overly excitable, but never ill willed.
But shit doesn't pump on accident. So I got added to a group by some seriously schemey schemers???!
So I'm looking for this token thats pumping or whatever but I can't find shit. There's no uniswap links. Every uniswap mention is a joke.
Watch this tho. Here's the first 4 uniswap mentions. It's all faces and jokes.
11:45: chat starts
12:55: 50 people
12:58: jokes about $cashtags $antimeme
1:20: jokes. Oops we haz no url.
1:36: literally no one knows what's going on
1:46: no srsly wat is this?
1:58: did everyone get tokens? Everyone: no
2:26: wait how are more ppl joininh?
Now, watch how fucking fast this happens. At 2:30 there are still less than 100 people.
At 2:36 a flood of ppl enter from a link somewhere. And the entire chat is now faceless.
By 3:19, there are 579 people.
Now here's where it gets really weird. At 2:50 I was like "lol this is gunna blow up in my face bc of course it would"
Still no links to Uniswap or anything.
At 3:40 a string of tweets some at me fast with just straight shit talk.
Search again and now there's a link. Sort of.
From Jordan. Who saw it being blasted in the chat. And it's fake.
At 3:11.
And so fast forward and I'm going back trying to figure this all out and it's insane.
The outrage faceless dudes are not salty bc they missed out on something. Nothing ever happened.
They're pretending to be salty to create hype to shill their fake #few token in replies.
Every uni link share is like the above. Not like known folks making jokes.
Bull scammers are creative.
Theres nothing more powerful than greed and FOMO but theres nothing more sharable than outrage.
And y'all fell hard. Even I thought something pumped.
Here's zoom in on the transition from fucking around with friends to "uhhh what"
2:33 pm is earliest I can tell that a link got posted somewhere. 100 people is hit. And um. Yuck.
2:45pm
Fake FEW contract is created.
2:48pm
Fake few contract creator approves on uniswap
2:49
Fake few contract creator creates $15k worth of liquidity
So it took *4 minutes* to create a fake token and add liquidity (aka "get it listed on uniswap")
Interestingly, 5 hours after putting it on uniswap (7:29pm my time), contract creator registers an ENS name: fewfi.eth.
Which means he's still shilling this scam somewhere.
its NOT edited to remove non-scam tokens. there are some they use as pairs (e.g. tether, weth, uni, etc.)
shit and like random ass names dont always help so heres the token list with tx hash so you can find a scamcoin, visit the tx hash, and then explore from there.
okay but seriously i just legit bought these Astro tokens AND I DO NOT BUY TOKENS to get the full features and in 5 minutes it zelda sounded me abt a new listing and BAM LOOK WHO IT IS?!
Our buddy 0xebb4!!!!!!! Daamn @Astro_Tools serves my needs.
Okay so I'm now watching what I saw happen last night except now its in real time and happening right now and my gosh all you poor thirsty souls searching for a quick buck and getting rekt. ππππππππ
TBH I feel like @Astro_Tools knows me or something. This is my jam.
So 0xebb4 is 7/9 new tokens on uni in the last HOUR.
LOL this other scammer 0xb13fe3ed1557359ebdf856278576bdb0c2de9df5 has created 4 separate fake ISN scams with the same-same-but-different-name in the last couple hours
Crypto folks (hopefully) already know that Lazarus is one of the most prevalent threat actors targeting this industry.
They rekt more people, companies, protocols than anyone else.
But it's good to know exactly how they get in. Bc another smart contract audit won't save you.
For example, one long-time fave method:
- Contact employee via social/messaging app
- Direct them to a Github for a job offer, "skills test," or to help with a bug
- Rekt individual's device
- Gain entry to company's AWS
- Rekt company (and their users)
When it comes to financial crime, money laundering, etc. everyone goes thru a phase of thinking that the solution is knowing the identity of the account holder.
"if only we knew who moved these assets! then we would be able to catch them and stop crime!"
N O .
Literally NO.
It doesn't work at any scale. It's never worked at any scale. It never will work at any scale.
AML laws and all the related shit don't stop crime or money laundering. And it never has.
And it's really important to note that the implementation is NOT the issue.
The laws are *designed* to detect and block people from accessing the financial system.
And they do exactly that. Really well. So well in fact that like 1/4th of the world's population doesn't have a basic ass bank account.
On Fri June 2nd, thousands of Atomic Wallet users had their wallets drained across basically every chain.
Each theft involved 1-3 new addies. Initially we were only able to link thefts on-chain if they sent gas to multiple addresses.
(green guys are what we put alerts on first)
The lack of consolidation means the majority of addresses collected so far came direct from users sharing their info w/ folks like @zachxbt or w/ Atomic, @elliptic, @SlowMist, etc.
We have no idea how complete our lists are currently, or how long the long tail will be.