For those who are confused and need additional context.
Earlier today Arkham announced a $150K bounty for the identity of the DJT creator
11:49 pm UTC I reply to Arkham saying I submitted for the bounty
11:57 pm UTC Martin Shkreli panic DM’s me
12:27 am UTC Martin Shkreli creates a spaces and announces he is the creator of DJT
One of the large DJT insiders verso.sol dumping $832K worth of DJT and then depositing USDC to CEX ~1 hr ago
Coincidentally also a large holder on Martin’s other project Shoggoth
1/ Here is an overview of one of the better executed scams I have seen in recent times so I figured I would share with the community as a cautionary tale.
A few weeks ago I received a DM from a follower who lost $245K after accidentally downloading malware onto their computer.
2/ It started as an account purporting to be Peter Lauten from a16z, messaging a team to inquire about a potential podcast partnership.
3/ The attacker noticed that the real Peter Lauten had changed his X (Twitter) username from ‘peter_lauten’
to ‘lauten’ at a point in time and then had claimed his old username.
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.