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A group of "drainers" of Pink Drainer wallets has become a victim of fraud with "poisoning" of the address.
The incident, which occurred on June 27, drew the attention of analysts of the MistTrack platform. According to them, the hackers sent 10 ETH worth about $30,000 to a fake address that imitated their own.
A "poisoning" scam occurs when an attacker sends a small amount of digital assets from a wallet with a similar address in order to confuse the victim and force them to use incorrect data.
"Scammers have bots that search for new transactions. Since they can't replace the entire address, you can make only the first and last few characters look similar. Thus, the fraudster expects that the victim will [copy] the address instead of the original one, " MistTrack experts noted in an interview with Cointelegraph.
In the case of Pink Drainer, " the poisoned address duplicated the first and last five characters.
In May, it became known that the hacker group "curtailed its activities" after achieving a financial goal.
According to the Dune dashboard, hackers have stolen over $85 million from more than 21,000 victims since July 2023.
Scamming the scammer
It seems like an address associated with the Pink Drainer fell victim to the address poisoning scam.
Pink Drainer: 0x8980ab6d185af9bcc10292d4e91ae4c0b4f14213
Real: 0xEfF0E5244d5C78Ba4DD6bc01082576280558f58A
Fake:… pic.twitter.com/1CCWTufeZv
— MistTrack (@MistTrack_io) July 7, 2024
The incident, which occurred on June 27, drew the attention of analysts of the MistTrack platform. According to them, the hackers sent 10 ETH worth about $30,000 to a fake address that imitated their own.
A "poisoning" scam occurs when an attacker sends a small amount of digital assets from a wallet with a similar address in order to confuse the victim and force them to use incorrect data.
"Scammers have bots that search for new transactions. Since they can't replace the entire address, you can make only the first and last few characters look similar. Thus, the fraudster expects that the victim will [copy] the address instead of the original one, " MistTrack experts noted in an interview with Cointelegraph.
In the case of Pink Drainer, " the poisoned address duplicated the first and last five characters.
In May, it became known that the hacker group "curtailed its activities" after achieving a financial goal.
According to the Dune dashboard, hackers have stolen over $85 million from more than 21,000 victims since July 2023.
