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Jul 10, 2023 12 tweets 7 min read Read on X
1/ An investigation into the YouTuber turned phishing scammer Blue (Jack) who has worked with Monkey Drainer and other drainer services to steal more than $1.5m



2/ Before Blue (Jack) began scamming in 2021 he amassed an audience of more than 122k subscribers by uploading gaming and trolling videos to YT.



3/ A leaked post from Blue’s personal Snapchat shows the ENS address cool-breeze.eth which purchased BAYC 8668 in October 2022.

0xC9a4Fe3DA7fb38e57fa14B273f05f190b535E395

4/ Looking at the funding of this address is where things get interesting.

I observed inflows to cool-breeze.eth of more than 85 ETH (~1/3 of the stolen funds) directly from 8+ addresses involved with Monkey Drainer phishing scams.

Monkey is best known to have stolen $24m.

5/ On Discord Blue flexed his BAYC purchase and would share his methods scamming.

The second and third screenshot is from an internal Discord server where Blue would instruct his workers.



6/ Unfortunately Blue was robbed of his BAYC in late 2022 after allegedly scamming Monkey out of his cut from a phishing scam.

0x20428b7e16bdbe9b59478de05694d9aeb0d4393cfba65d46318e600581d7df55



7/ This did not deter Blue as he soon began scamming again shortly after this setback with new ENS addresses.

The stolen funds have been spent on luxury watch, car, shoes, Roblox items and gambling on Stake.

All this was flexed from his personal Snapchat.



8/ Blue specializes in spamming on Twitter with verified accounts and two of his recent thefts include stolen assets from @g13m and @ystrickler while working with two different drainers. https://t.co/48ruH7mC9v




9/ July 3, 2023 @g13m was phished for 61.5 ETH and 93.3K USDT (~$213k) by a fake Doodles site.

Blue received 49 ETH and 74K USDT for himself after the drainer fee.

Blue’s address
0xa27b1d84b928059d78b7fdad9f7142d84e8689b4
10/ After Blue commissioned a video with his old BAYC and his other alias making fun of LoveMake losing his funds.
11/ Another recent theft includes yancey.eth who had a Milady & Squiggle phished (~12 ETH)

After the drainer fee Blue received 10.3 ETH to his ENS purplelobster.eth

Blue moved the stolen funds to 0xad where $300k currently sits
0xad83776f97d956e4c9b33fd180e43910a8cb7db4



12/ It’s disgusting to see these phishing scammers show zero remorse and spend the funds on tasteless items.

Additional information of Blue (Jack) has been shared with multiple of his victims to eventually help bring legal action.

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Jun 23
1/ An investigation into how the New York based social engineering scammer Daytwo/PawsOnHips (Christian Nieves) stole $4M+ from Coinbase users by impersonating customer support, bought luxury goods, and lost most of the funds gambling at casinos. Image
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2/ Daytwo operates a small call centre group and also works as a caller.

His group primarily coerced targets into setting up Coinbase wallet with a compromised seed on phishing sites.

Below is a video of his panel used and a sample of his voice when calling.
3/ In Nov 2024 $240K was stolen from an elderly victim with Daytwo’s worker Paranoia (Justin).

A private recording of the theft exists and was obtained (see part 1 below)

Theft address
bc1q35tw4f5qrfxrjy2v8g8d3majtujv28audm6yvp
AJU5yh4kDahLak4uq5n4ehJDVs2w2Lbhw9UHoseaBwV7
Read 11 tweets
May 9
1/ In late 2023 a former Yuga Labs security researcher was stopped at the airport after law enforcement mistakenly linked them to a $1.1M phishing theft from a Bored Ape owner.

Here’s an investigation into where the stolen funds went and who’s actually responsible. Image
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2/ In Dec 2022, a victim had 14 X BAYC NFTs phished in a social engineering scheme where purchased X accounts were used to convince the victim they wanted to license the IP rights for a film.

The scammer directed the victim to a phishing site where they had them sign a message draining their assets.

Theft address
0x9335da37d37bc5d46850eaee48f8b9ccbe94d9a2Image
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3/ In Sep 2023, Sam Curry a well known whitehat and former Yuga Labs security engineer was detained at the airport by law enforcement for questioning and was served with a grand jury subpoena (later dropped).

In reality as part of his security work at Yuga, he had been investigating the theft and used a private key put in the JavaScript of the website by the threat actor.

LE then had mistakenly reviewed logs from OpenSea which included his home IP address and used this to incorrectly link him as the suspect.Image
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Mar 20
1/ An investigation into the alleged identity of the mysterious Hyperliquid whale tied to illicit activity that profited ~$20M via highly leveraged positions over the past couple weeks. Image
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2/ A trader opened multiple highly leveraged positions on Hyperliquid and GMX from Jan - Mar 2025.

They gained lots of attention this month after two onchain trades:

-Large ETH & BTC long position on 50X leverage just before Trump’s crypto reserve announcement by 0xe4d3 ($10M profit)

-Large BTC short position on 40X leverage by 0xf3F4 ($9M profit)Image
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3/ I went and identified the main counterparties of 0xf3f:

0x7ab8c59db7b959bb8c3481d5b9836dfbc939af21
0x312f8282f68e17e33b8edde9b52909a77c75d950
0xab3067c58811ade7aa17b58808db3b4c2e86f603
0xe4d31c2541a9ce596419879b1a46ffc7cd202c62

This cluster is to tied to Roobet, Binance, Gamdom, ChangeNOW, Shuffle, Alphapo, BC Game, & Metawin accounts.Image
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Feb 3
1/ Over the past few months I imagine you have seen many Coinbase users complain on X about their accounts suddenly being restricted.

This is the result of aggressive risk models and Coinbase’s failure to stop its users losing $300M+ per year to social engineering scams. Image
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2/ Myself and @tanuki42_ spent time reviewing Coinbase withdrawals and gathering data from my DMs for high confidence thefts on various chains.

Below is a table we created which shows $65M stolen from Coinbase users in Dec 2024 - Jan 2025.

Our number is likely much lower than the actual amount stolen as our data was limited to my DMs and thefts we discovered on-chain which does not account for Coinbase support tickets and police reports we do not have access to.Image
3/ Let’s walk through how these Coinbase social engineering scams work.

A victim reached out to me last month after losing ~$850K.

Graphing out this theft lead to a consolidation address with 25+ other victims tied to ‘coinbase-hold.eth’.

Theft address
0xc8234dda2bc3758eb90224d0025871001e8ee7b9
bc1q4ks5gus8uv88vk8yage4r89kv8uxlgwhemz545Image
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Nov 27, 2024
1/ An investigation into how the threat actor Serpent went from a pro Fortnite player to helping steal $3.5M via meme coin scams launched from 9+ account compromises on X & IG and gambling the proceeds away at online casinos. Image
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2/ Serpent (SerpentAU) is a former pro Fortnite player from Australia who was released from the esports organization ‘Overtime’ after being caught allegedly cheating in June 2020.

He then co-founded the NFT project DAPE in March 2022 which later rug pulled. Image
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3/ In March 2024 Serpent launched another project called ERROR which rug pulled and got him banned from X.

Deployer address
0x8233873ee35547097ccb9098adbab955d7120ee8 Image
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Nov 26, 2024
1/ Over the past few months I have been tracking a series of related compromises for McDonald’s, Usher, Kabosu Owner, Andy Ayrey, Wiz Khalifa, SPX 6900, etc on X & IG which has resulted in an estimated $3.5M+ stolen via launching Pump Fun meme coins. Image
2/ On Aug 21, 2024 the McDonald’s IG became compromised and a post was made promoting the bundled meme coin GRIMACE and the hacker began trolling after.

$690K+ from the pump and dump was consolidated to two wallets.

4RiNhTwBxYWgb4MSCtt9vXgVk2yuPhoQR3DR9pMVPU1W
2vjnmxwTYNJvTmFhtqxZkPiuCHkaKZK5rcxTLuoC2dPBImage
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3/ On Sep 3, 2024 the McDonalds attacker transferred 101.5 SOL to two addresses which deployed and sniped SCHRADER after the Actor Dean Norris had his X account hacked.

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