1/ Let’s breakdown the $6.3m NFT rug Animoon, a project that has constantly screwed over its holders since day 1.
2/ The pfp NFT project was a collection of 9,999 NFTs @ 0.2 ETH advertised as a P2E game with utility such as large giveaways, breeding, irl trips, & more.
After almost 5 months nothing has been delivered. Yet another rug promoted by Jake Paul.
3/ Funny enough Animoon claims to have an NDA signed with Pokémon.
Why would Pokémon associate their IP with a low effort project and sketchy team that has zero background in gaming. Not to mention the art is a blatant rip off.
4/ Not long after launch the team begins to act very distant making announcements/appearing in chat every 3-4 weeks.
Meanwhile the $6.3m has been transferred away to Binance & Kucoin exchange accounts.
5/ In March 100 holders were supposed to receive Jordan shoes, another 100 holders to receive off white shirts, and another 50 holders to receive supreme shirts.
Yet it’s now June and no one has received anything.
6/ As advertised the 15 Legendary NFT holders were supposed to received $2.5k every month for life from the public wallet.
There’s no evidence from either public wallet these have been sent out.
7/ In April the team changed it so Legendary holders now receive a % of the revenue from the P2E game.
Nonetheless this change didn’t ever get approval from legendary holders screwing them over.
Keep in mind their has been zero proof of this P2E game even being developed.
8/ Fast forward to early May and the team now claims to be working with Bandai Namco (Digimon)
Once again there is zero proof.
I DM’d BN on Twitter but am still waiting to hear back.
9/ At this point the Twitter account for Animoon is gone, the website isn’t functional, and general chat has been removed from the Discord
10/ The two founders behind Animoon used the names @maximadam_ & @marc_blata (not their real names).
Maxim’s bio claims to be a “NFT expert since 2013”
Both happen to post pics flexing in Dubai on Instagram.
11/ I then went to look at wallet that corresponds with the BAYC in Maxim’s PFP.
It’s very clear @maximadam_ doesn’t own the NFT and is impersonating @OGDeathBot so I DM him.
He makes a tweet then what do you know @maximadam_ deletes his Twitter and goes private on insta.
3/ At first the attacker communicated with the Prisma deployer the attack was whitehat.
Later that day all of the funds were deposited to Tornado Cash contradicting that statement.
The exploiter began making outrageous demands and asked for a $3.8M (34%) whitehat bounty
This amount is significantly higher than the industry standard 10% essentially extorting the team as the treasury does not have sufficient assets to reimburse users.
1/ An investigation into the French dev Jolan Lacroix who recently stole $900K from the TICKER presale on Base before spending the funds on meme coins and Milady NFTs.
2/ TICKER launched a presale on March 16 raising a total of 877 ETH ($3.19M) via Party App on Base.
The token distribution was supposed to be: 24% LP, 71% presale/airdrops, 1% early contributors, 4% reserved for errors.
The team was fully anon.
3/ Immediately after TGE was where things went bad.
15% of the TICKER supply was sent to a dev (Jolan) assisting with the project to distribute the airdrop.
Instead of doing this Jolan sold 13% of the supply for $900K rugging everyone supporting the project.
1/ An investigation into the phishing scammer Ultra (Nicolas) who has stolen millions through Discord compromises such as MetaKey and X/Twitter spam just to spend it all gambling on Stake, rare usernames, and Roblox items.
2/ In Feb 2023 the Dead Army Skeleton Discord was compromised
after an admin was phished.
The attacker spammed phishing links in the announcements channel with funds ending up at offtherip.eth and Monkey Drainer.
1/ An investigation into how the influencer Crypto Rover ghosted a project he was paid to promote, mislead followers about his trading positions, and also his shills for pump and dump meme coins.
2/ In May 2023 Rover was connected with a project was connected to help promote it.
During negotiations Rover said he can “pump projects from 1/2m to 10m easy”
They agreed on $10K + 1% of the supply for payment