Notorious Monkey Drainer crypto scammer says they’re ‘shutting down’
The cryptocurrency phishing scammer behind some of the most high-profile and high-value Web3 thefts is claiming to have packed up shop and is “moving on to something better.”
The scammer by the pseudonym Monkey Drainer posted to their Telegram channel on Mar. 1 that they “will be shutting down immediately” and all “files, servers and devices” related to the drainer “will be destroyed immediately” and it “will not return.”
The scammer even gave advice to budding “young cyber criminals” saying they shouldn’t “lose themselves in the pursuit of easy money” and only those “with the highest level of dedication” should operate a “large scale cybercrime” outfit.
Monkey Drainer even recommended a “flawless” alternative service to the one they once offered named “Venom Drainer” and pointed to a Telegram account for the service that was created only a day before Monkey’s announcement.
Blockchain security firm PeckShield tweeted on Mar. 1 that within the last day, Monkey Drainer's wallet deposited around 200 Ether (ETH) worth $330,000 into the crypto mixing service Tornado Cash, attempting to obscure their funds. 840 ETH worth $1.4 million was still in their primary wallet.
#PeckShieldAlert Scammer #MonkeyDrainer, who runs theft schemes for multiple clients (a sort of 'scam-as-a-service') announced to shut down their service~200 $ETH has been transferred to Tornado Cash within the last 24 hours, while ~840 $ETH (~$1.4M) sits in their main address pic.twitter.com/1lg3KLRxhk
Blockchain security firm CertiK also shared Monkey’s message on a Mar. 1 tweet, saying the crypto wallet-draining kit they offered is understood to take a 30% “commission” of funds stolen funds from others' use of the software.
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