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Over the past year, a scammer from the UK under the nickname Ape_31 has stolen over $650,000 in cryptocurrencies from more than 250 users. This was reported by on-chain detective ZachXBT.
The attacker published screenshots of a demo account on the Bybit exchange with allegedly received profit from his trading operations. With the help of an additional news account, he offered victims to subscribe to copy trading services at a price of $250-500. In the future, he lured additional funds, after which he blocked the investor on social networks.
One of the users paid $500 for a copy trading subscription. Then Ape_31 asked to make a $20,000 deposit. To be convincing, he provided the victim with an API key, allegedly to monitor transactions, but in reality, all the displayed transactions were fake.
In another failed OTC transaction, a potential victim was able to persuade the attacker to call and recorded his voice.
In total, ZachXBT received 16 of the attacker's deposit addresses on various exchanges from the victims. According to him, the real number of victims and the amount of damage may be much higher, since the Ape_31 creates new wallets through a certain number of transactions.
In the final post, the detective published the collected information about the attacker, including exchange wallet addresses on KuCoin, Kraken, Bitget, and Poloniex, IP address, phone number, and links to Telegram channels.
The attacker published screenshots of a demo account on the Bybit exchange with allegedly received profit from his trading operations. With the help of an additional news account, he offered victims to subscribe to copy trading services at a price of $250-500. In the future, he lured additional funds, after which he blocked the investor on social networks.
One of the users paid $500 for a copy trading subscription. Then Ape_31 asked to make a $20,000 deposit. To be convincing, he provided the victim with an API key, allegedly to monitor transactions, but in reality, all the displayed transactions were fake.
In another failed OTC transaction, a potential victim was able to persuade the attacker to call and recorded his voice.
In total, ZachXBT received 16 of the attacker's deposit addresses on various exchanges from the victims. According to him, the real number of victims and the amount of damage may be much higher, since the Ape_31 creates new wallets through a certain number of transactions.
In the final post, the detective published the collected information about the attacker, including exchange wallet addresses on KuCoin, Kraken, Bitget, and Poloniex, IP address, phone number, and links to Telegram channels.
