A scammer has stolen at least $385,000 in ETH by SIM-swapping Friend.tech users and draining their accounts.
On Oct. 5, blockchain sleuth ZachXBT reported the same scammer had pilfered 234 ETH over the past 24 hours by SIM-swapping four different Friend.tech users.
The on-chain movement of crypto assets was traced back to the same hacker who drained the accounts of the four victims.“Got sim swapped. Apparently, dude was able to do it from an Apple store and switched it to an iPhone SE. Don’t buy my keys, that wallet is compromised.”an attack targeting them happening in real time, posting to X that they were “getting f---ing sim swapped watching it happen” and asking for help.
crypto twitter is like a neighborhood where once a day somebody leaves their front door open, gets robbed, and everybody comes together to lament the loss, leaving their own front doors open. instead of retweeting the 75th simswap of the week go remove your phone from everything
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