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Mar 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨

Today the @SECGov charged Justin Sun & 3 of his companies for the unregistered offer and sale of crypto assets.

Additionally, 8 celebrities were charged for allegedly promoting crypto without disclosing the fact that they were being paid to do so.

See 👇
@SECGov 1/ Celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and a group of rappers and R&B stars such as Soulja Boy, Akon and Lil Yachty are being charged for shilling Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) without disclosing the fact that they were being compensated for it.
@SECGov 2/ Six of the eight celebrities facing charges agreed to pay a total of more than $400,000 to settle those charges, with the exception of Cortez Way and singer Austin Mahone.
@SECGov 3/ Read more about our blog on celebrities shilling crypto:

certik.com/resources/blog…

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Mar 22
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨

Scammers will always try to take advantage of hype.

We have seen multiple phishing attempts mimicking the Arbitrum airdrop.

Here are some of the signs to look out for so you don’t lose your assets 🧵👇
1/ Scammers will often use Twitter bots to tag users in tweets pointing them to a fake Twitter profile displaying a drainer.

Many wallet drainers have a similar layout 👇

We have recorded 6 of these drainers in March alone, although it’s likely that there are more. Image
2/ These drainers will trick users into approving malicious transactions

learn more about the dangers of approving malicious transactions below

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Feb 21
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What we know so far regarding the @fRiENDSiES_Ai exit scam:

On 20 Feb, fRiENDSiES Ai posted on their twitter that they were pausing the project due to market volatility.

Let’s see what went down 🧵 👇 Image
@fRiENDSiES_Ai 1/ In March 2022, the fRiENDSiES #NFT project conducted a Dutch-style auction which raised ~1,530.78 $ETH.
@fRiENDSiES_Ai 2/ According to the roadmap, which has been deleted, the team promised 1.25% of the royalties to be given back to token holders. However, investors have not received anything.
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Dec 20, 2022
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨

1/ Ice phishing is a considerable threat to the Web3 community

Instead of gaining accessing to your private key, scammers trick you into signing permissions to spend your assets.

We’ll outline below what to look out for, and how to protect yourself!
2/ The scam begins when a victim is tricked into approving the ice phishing address.

The scammers address will be presented to you when you are interacting with a malicious URL or Dapp

Below is an example of this type of transaction 👇
3/ The next phase comes when the ice phisher initiates a TransferFrom transaction

In the example below we can see the ice phisher (0x4632) initiates the transaction, which sends USDT to a recipient that is controlled by the scammer.
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Dec 19, 2022
#CertiKSkynetAlert 🚨

We are seeing multiple community reports that @BurstRoyale_NFT is a scam project that drains NFT wallets after downloading the game. Several individuals have reported that they fell victim to this phishing site over the past month.

Please stay safe!
@BurstRoyale_NFT 1/ Burst Royale appears to have a consistent modus operandi where a “team member” contacts their targets on Twitter offering them a job for the project and asking them to download their game, which is a proxy malware that drains wallets.
@BurstRoyale_NFT 2/ The malware is reportedly called RedLine Stealer which connects to a server to exfiltrate data. It can be found on underground forums for sale for ~$150.
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Dec 19, 2022
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1/ We are seeing a fake @Coinbase email scam. Here’s how it works 👇👀

The scammer targets individuals who are selling items online and promise to pay a large sum of BTC through Coinbase.
@coinbase 2/ They’ll then ask for the email address associated with the victim's Coinbase account.

Coinbase allows users to send crypto to an email address.

They then pretend to send you BTC and provide a fake screenshot of the confirmation.
@coinbase 3/ The scammer will then send an email pretending to be from Coinbase that will ask you to purchase BTC and send it to your 'activation address' in the email subject line. This is in order to ‘activate the encrypted fund’.

The activation address is the scammers BTC wallet
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Nov 21, 2022
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1/ Let's break down the recent FTX Wallet Drainer activity.

The BSC wallet holds ~$1.6m DAI after converting ~44,232 BNB to ~$4m USDC, ~$3.5m USDT and $3.4m Binance Peg ETH.

The assets were then bridged over to ETH and sent back to FTX Accounts Drainer. Image
2/ Once the FTX Wallet Drainer amassed ~250k ETH, they began bridging funds to the Bitcoin Blockchain

On 20 Nov, 50k ETH was transferred to 0x866E which swapped ETH for renBTC.

Those assets were then bridged to the following addresses

Bc1qv…gpedg
Bc1qa…n0702
3/ BTC Bc1qv…gpedg began a peel chain.

This is a money laundering technique whereby BTC is sent through a series of transactions in which smaller amounts of BTC are transferred to a new address. Image
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