The developer of DAO faced a group of scammers who infiltrated themselves and tried to steal funds from an account on the Ethereum network.
The creator of the Arrow cryptocurrency under the nickname Thomasg.eth (Thomasji) shared on Twitter with a story about how he nearly lost $125 million in ETH. Now he is working on a project for a decentralized air transport management system. According to Thomasg.eth, the scam only failed because he decided to use a new address on the Ethereum network for the DAO, rather than the main one.
The developer was contacted by a user under the nickname Heckshine (Hekshin) and offered his help in creating 3D design and animations for a new project. Tomasji gave him some assignments to see how the rookie would do. As a result, the developer was impressed by “the fruitfulness and dedication of the new participant to the project.” After gaining the trust of the victim, after some time Hekshin recommended Tomasuji his friend Lin and he agreed to accept her in the project.
Later, the newcomer convinced Tomasaji to try the staking service for the NFT Space Falcon project (a popular gaming project on Solan), which Lin claimed she was running. However, the domain name of the service website is brand new, the developer assures, “corrected for fraudulent purposes.”
“And this is where I got really lucky. Since this is a new project, I decided to move my NFTs to another address from the main address before staking,” says Tomasji.
Lin urged him to make one more bet, but from the main account. But then the developer realized that something suspicious was happening and immediately stopped all manipulations with the “service”, blocking Lin and Hekshin.
Later, Tomasji found out that the attackers were attracted by the huge balance in his address. They figured it out from the nickname — the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) allows users to change alphanumeric address names. Tomasji deduced that the hackers had hired a real designer to work on his project while the scammers were trying to extract money from him.
According to a recent report by Chainalysis, ransomware brought in about $602 million to scammers in 2021.
Source: Bits
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