Four addresses have been flagged relating to Monkey Drainer, including
the monkey-drainer.eth address, with Chainabuse showing a long list of
reported victims relating to these accounts.
An alleged phishing scammer going by the pseudonym “Monkey Drainer” has reportedly swiped around $1 million worth of Ether (
) via dubious copycat NFT minting websites this week.
Well-known blockchain sleuth ZachXBT was one of the first to track and highlight the activity, outlining on Oct. 26 that:
“Over
the past 24 hrs ~700 ETH ($1m) has been stolen by the phishing scammer
known as Monkey Drainer. They recently surpassed 7300 transactions from
their drainer wallet after being around for only a few months.”
“The
two largest victims over the past day include 0x02a & 0x626 who
collectively lost $370k from signing transactions on malicious phishing
sites,” ZachXBT added.
The blockchain scam investigator also went
on to assert that longer term, Monkey Drainer has allegedly stolen more
than $3.5 million from their schemes, with “that number rapidly
increasing by each day.”
6/ Please be extra diligent before visiting unknown sites, connecting your wallet, and signing transactions.
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 25, 2022
Am
still away on holiday for another week or so but wanted to get this
post out as my bot notifications have been blowing up from this.
Phishing scams often involve criminals sharing links to websites
impersonating real projects or companies designed to dupe victims into
handing over private credentials by offering an exciting buying
opportunity or free promotion.
Four addresses, in particular, have been flagged relating to Monkey Drainer, including the monkey-drainer.eth address.
Upon searching these addresses on blockchain community-driven
Web3 security network Chainabuse, it currently shows a long list of
reports relating to airdrop scams, NFT scams, and phishing attacks.
The
reported incidents include airdrop scams via the Astrobot Society
discord channel, a Fake Wolf Game and Bored Ape Yacht Club marketplace,
and a fake Aptos Airdrop to name a few.
Web3 security community Wallet Guard also responded
to ZachXBT’s Twitter thread and stated that it had “spotted several
other mint sites recently created” that had Monkey Drainer on the
backend, including a fake Garbage Friends whitelist link that was a
phishing website.
Related: FTX to give a ‘one-time’ $6M compensation to phishing victims
ZachXBT has become a respected independent blockchain investigator over the past couple of years, bringing to light a lot of nefarious behavior in the space.
Earlier this month, the deputy chief of France’s national cyber unit Christophe Durand even cited ZachXBT’s work for helping officials track phishing scams of five people suspected of stealing $2.5 million worth of NFTs.
source link : https://cointelegraph.com/news/phishing-scammer-monkey-drainer-has-pilfered-as-much-as-1m-in-ethereum
