[What happened:]

What happened: Yearn Finance fake site

Website:

Code:

https://yeanr.finance/

Archived: https://archive.is/p6O4e

Whois Record for YEaNr.finance
How does this work?
Domain Profile
Registrant    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Org    WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Country    pa
Registrar    NameCheap, Inc.
IANA ID: 1068
URL: https://www.namecheap.com/
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited
Dates    18 days old
Created on 2020-12-27
Expires on 2021-12-27
Updated on 2021-01-01    
 
Name Servers    DNS1.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM (has 1,008,481 domains)
DNS2.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM (has 1,008,481 domains)
   
 
Tech Contact    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY,
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
(p) (f)
IP Address    162.0.209.74 - 82 other sites hosted on this server

So they took advantage of the mis spelling and created this malicious website. If you directly type it to your browser, and make the mistake, you will surely fall for this trap. So bookmark it and check even the spelling just to make sure.

[Dates 16 days oldCreated on 2020-12-25Expires on 2021-12-25Updated on 2020-12-25]

Be careful with this so called integration wallet around, I'm seriously doubt that it is work as design as you have to enter your seed or recovery phrase. I'm trying to find out if there is such real application out there, but so far I can't find any deducing that this is a malicious site who's intention to steal our crypto. Or if there is a legit site, this is obviously a clone and fake.

Code:

https://www.integrationwallet.com/

Archive: https://archive.is/bLFE7

Not just bitcoin wallet, but almost all popular altcoins wallet like MEW and MetaMask. So be careful with this, if you have encounter it, kindly report it to Google or to the registrar themselves

Whois Record for IntegrationWallet.com
How does this work?
Domain Profile
Registrant    Registration Private
Registrant Org    Domains By Proxy, LLC
Registrant Country    us
Registrar    GoDaddy.com, LLC
IANA ID: 146
URL: http://www.godaddy.com
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com

Registrar Status    clientDeleteProhibited, clientRenewProhibited, clientTransferProhibited, clientUpdateProhibited
Dates    16 days old
Created on 2020-12-25
Expires on 2021-12-25
Updated on 2020-12-25    

IP Address    165.227.12.111 - 8,962 other sites hosted on this server

And that IP address and its relations has a lot of flags.



https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/165.227.12.111/relations

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Waves Airdrop

Website:

Code:

https://wave-airdrop.live/
https://wave-airdrop.live/WAVES/index.html

Archived: https://archive.is/naevS

Registrant    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Org    WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Country    pa
Registrar    NameCheap, Inc.
IANA ID: 1068
URL: https://www.namecheap.com/
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited
Dates    30 days old
Created on 2020-12-10
Expires on 2021-12-10
Updated on 2020-12-15      

IP Address    198.54.125.171 - 873 other sites hosted on this server

Unfortunately, this site has been up in the last month, so I do hope that no one has fallen for this scheme. If we can just spend less than 5 minutes of your time to report this, then for sure we will clean crypto space one at a time.

[What Happened:]

What Happened: Fake and Phishing Walletconnect.org

Website:

Code:

https://wallet-connect.org/

Domain Name: WALLET-CONNECT.ORG
Registry Domain ID: D402200000015501490-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namecheap.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namecheap.com
Updated Date: 2020-12-19T18:40:53Z
Creation Date: 2020-12-19T18:40:44Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-12-19T18:40:44Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: NameCheap, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1068
Registrar Abuse Contact Email:
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.6613102107
Reseller:
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant State/Province: Panama
Registrant Country: PA
Name Server: DNS1.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
Name Server: DNS2.NAMECHEAPHOSTING.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form https://www.icann.org/wicf/)

For more information on Whois status codes, please visit https://icann.org/epp

The real website is: https://walletconnect.org/

This is a warning, double check if you are connected to the real website because the domain is very similar to the original one.

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Coingecko trading platform

Website:

Code:

https://coingecko.pro/

Archived: https://archive.is/Yaeua

Registrant Org    See PrivacyGuardian.org
Registrant Country    us
Registrar    Namesilo, LLC
IANA ID: 1479
URL: http://www.namesilo.com
Whois Server: whois.namesilo.com

(p)
Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited
Dates    24 days old
Created on 2020-11-20
Expires on 2021-11-20
Updated on 2020-11-21    
 
Tech Contact    —
IP Address    104.27.144.172 - 488 other sites hosted on this server

This supposedly trading platform from coingecko has everything a fake site it. First there is no coingecko trading or exchanges that I'm aware of. Second, it was just created 24 days ago and obviously, using the logo of coingecko as well.

So please be careful not to be fooled by this website, just because it has the coingecko logo and name does it mean it is trusted.

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Ripple website

Website:

Code:

https://ripple.com.co/

Archived: https://archive.is/TaWUa

Registrant    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Country    us
Registrar    NETIM
IANA ID: 1519
URL: www.netim.com
Whois Server: —

(p)
Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited
Dates    26 days old
Created on 2020-11-15
Expires on 2021-11-15
Updated on 2020-11-20    
  
IP Address    23.94.83.89 - 1 other site is hosted on this server

Very clever trick, so just be careful and double check the Ripple website.

It is obvious what the real intention here, and since Ripple will have it's fork tomorrow, scammers are working very hard as well to register ripple names to carry their exploits.

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake ETH and Uni giveaway

Website:

Code:

https://ethuniswap.com/

Archived: https://archive.is/5uVos

Whois:

Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited
Dates    15 days old
Created on 2020-11-21
Expires on 2021-11-21
Updated on 2020-11-24    
 
Name Servers    NS1.ADMINVPS.RU (has 13,155 domains)
NS2.ADMINVPS.NET (has 406 domains)
NS3.ADMINVPS.RU (has 13,155 domains)
NS4.ADMINVPS.NET (has 406 domains)
   
 
Tech Contact    Pavel Zuev
Private Person
3-liniya, 2 polovini, 23 korpus, 3,
Sankt-Peterburg, Sankt-Peterburg, 187021, ru

(p) (f)
IP Address    185.132.132.139 - 88 other sites hosted on this server

Again, please be careful with this kind of malicious websites, there's no such thing as Uni or ETH giveaway here. Do not click the "Claim Airdrop", and not even tempted, because you might get yourself into trouble and loss your hard earn money from this scammers.

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Stellar Community Reward Program
 
Website:

Code:

https://steļlar.org/blog/The-Stellar-Community-Reward-Program-Register-and-claim-XLM/

Archive: https://archive.is/sZydk

Registrar    Key-Systems GmbH
IANA ID: 269
URL: http://www.key-systems.net
Whois Server: whois.rrpproxy.net

(p)
Registrar Status    serverTransferProhibited
Dates    7 days old
Created on 2020-11-28
Expires on 2021-11-28
Updated on 2020-11-28    
  
Name Servers    KEYLA.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 18,165,691 domains)
SAGE.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 18,165,691 domains)
   
  
Tech Contact    —
IP Address    91.241.19.79 - 1 other site is hosted on this server

A lot of this scams are popping in high numbers right now because altcoin market is having a bull run of their own.

And that's why scammers are also very quick on creating a lot of fake websites to trap and fall for this scheme. It will be a pity if someone fall for this and I do hope that one one will be a a casualty here.

Binance Will List Frontier (FRONT) in the Innovation Zone

Fellow Binancians,
Binance will list Frontier (FRONT) in the Innovation Zone and we will open trading for FRONT/ETH and FRONT/BUSD trading pairs at 2020/11/18 8:00 AM (UTC). Users can now start depositing FRONT in preparation for trading.

Reminder: The Innovation Zone is a dedicated trading zone where users are able to trade new, innovative tokens that are likely to have higher volatility and pose a higher risk than other tokens.
Before being able to trade in the Innovation Zone, all users are required to visit the web version of the Innovation Zone trading page to carefully read the Binance Terms of Use and complete a questionnaire as part of the Initial Disclaimer. Please note that there will not be any trading restrictions on trading pairs in the Innovation Zone.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/267c7759507a49c08afc18606188014e

I just look at the current price and it seems the pump is over:



https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/frontier

Lol, that's the nature of crypto though, it will be pump once there is a news coming from Binance like this, I do hope that there are traders here who join the bandwagon early and made profit out of this pump.

Personally, I late though, I just got this news from one of my Twitter group, unfortunately, didn't see it in time. But let's see, maybe there is a second wave of pump for all we know.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has announced the former Australian promoter of BitConnect has been charged for his involvement in the folded cryptocurrency project that was accused of scamming millions out of investors.

ASIC said John Louis Anthony Bigatton promoted the cryptocurrency platform before its collapse in early 2018, alleging the man from Carss Park in NSW was the Australian national promoter of Bitconnect from around 14 August 2017 to 18 January 2018.

ASIC alleges Bigatton operated an unregistered managed investment scheme, known as the BitConnect Lending Platform, in Australia and that he provided unlicensed financial advice on behalf of another person in, amongst other things, seminars he conducted at various locations around Australia.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/aussie-bitconnect-promoter-charged-over-his-involvement-with-alleged-crypto-scam/

It's good to see that those behind this crypto scam are now being charge. And it seems that Bigatton really involved himself here, knowing or unknowingly part of the scam as he himself led seminars and mislead crypto investors that time.

It also says that in total of four charges against him, 10 years imprisonment and a fine of AU$945,000. Oh well, at least justice could be served here.

https://medium.com/originprotocol/urgent-ousd-has-hacked-and-there-has-been-a-loss-of-funds-7b8c4a7d534c

The Origin Dollar (OUSD) has been hacked. The team is all-hands on deck attempting to figure out what vulnerability was exploited and how the hacker was able to access users’ deposits. Expect an updated post within an hour.

This transaction seems to be the root of the attack:

https://etherscan.io/tx/0xe1c76241dda7c5fcf1988454c621142495640e708e3f8377982f55f8cf2a8401

At this time, there has been a loss of funds of around $7M, including over $1M of funds deposited by Origin and our founders and employees. We will be working tirelessly until we can determine the cause of the exploit and whether we will be able to recuperate these funds. We are very incentivized to give 1000% in resolving the issue in whatever way possible.

We have disabled deposits to the vault. Please do not buy OUSD on Uniswap or Sushiswap as the current prices do not reflect OUSD’s underlying assets.

This is a quickly moving process, and our entire team has been mobilized to tackle this crisis. We will be making frequent updates via our blog, Telegram, Twitter, and Discord. In times of crisis, it is important that we are fully transparent and accountable. We are ready to answer your questions.

At this time, we would like to extend our sincerest and deepest apologies to those early OUSD users that have deposited funds with us. We very much valued and appreciated your early bet on our new product, and we will work tirelessly to get to the bottom of this.

We are not going away. This is not a rug pull or internal scam. Despite this setback, it is very much in our intention to make OUSD a safe, secure, and successful product that builds on the broader Origin mission of peer-to-peer commerce. We are sorry for the events of today, and we will carry this burden forward to do better.

So unfortunate that this is the fourth hack of the month. The attack was thru "re-entrancy" bug, it was the some bug exploited by hacker during the DAO hack.

I don't know how long can we take this attack on this Defi hype, millions have already been lost to this criminals and obviously investors is on the losing end here.

As per CryptoWhale:



https://twitter.com/CryptoWhale/status/1327049480483508225

Really ironic and comedy to most, but this is the reality. At $3800, people are still not buying and looking for more dip, and majority are shouting that it is the end of bitcoin.

Fast track to November, the opportunity to scoop cheap bitcoin is no longer present, and yet everyone wanted to join the bandwagon and extremely bullish to even predict a six digits as the next all time high.

Anyone here a fan of golf tournament? US Masters is on-going and the favourite, Dustin Johnson @1.19, not attractive odds, however, again, if we love to bet on the underdogs the odds are very enticing:



You can also read some nice article here: 2020 Masters leaderboard breakdown, scores: Dustin Johnson in complete control after scorching Saturday .

Anyhow, just opening this thread and hope that some golf gamblers will come out and give their analysis of the current leader board or if there is a possibility of upsets.

And then we have a new 'fan', Stanley Druckenmiller, a billionaire hedge fund manager, and said that he has BTC and believed that the price could go up in the future.



https://twitter.com/CNBCTheExchange/status/1325887078987689985

And he also admitted that he is old and traditional, but he thinks that bitcoin together with gold is the best investment vehicle now. And the list grows like everyday, billionaire investors are not seeing bitcoin as really the best asset to invest as store of value.

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Ocean Airdrop

Ann Thread: No Ann thread in this forum

Website:

Code:

https://ocean-airdrop.com/

Archived: https://archive.is/TZ667



They have their own fork last September: https://blog.oceanprotocol.com/september-2020-hard-fork-ocean-token-completed-8142059361d7, and probably that's the reason why scammers are targeting them.  And has a steady gains in the last month or so.

Whois Record for Ocean-Airdrop.com
Domain Profile
Registrant    Pavel Zuev
Registrant Org    Private Person
Registrant Country    ru
Registrar    Registrar of domain names REG.RU LLC REGISTRAR OF DOMAIN NAMES REG.RU LLC
IANA ID: 1606
URL: https://www.reg.com,https://www.reg.ru,http://www.reg.ru
Whois Server: whois.reg.com

(p)
Registrar Status    clientTransferProhibited
Dates    2 days old
Created on 2020-10-31
Expires on 2021-10-31
Updated on 2020-10-31

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake Uniswap airdrop

Ann thread: No ANN thread

Website:

Code:

https://uniswapairdrop.info/

Archived: https://archive.is/KzUiO



Scammers are continuing to create fake Uniswap websites to lure unsuspecting victims.

Be alert and be aware that this is fake Uniswap airdrop.

Whois Record for UnisWapAirdrop.info
How does this work?
Domain Profile
Registrant Org    Private Person
Registrant Country    ru
Registrar    Limited Liability Company "Registrar of domain names REG.RU"
IANA ID: 1606
URL: http://www.reg.com
Whois Server: whois.reg.com

(p)
Registrar Status    addPeriod, clientTransferProhibited, serverTransferProhibited
Dates    Created on 2020-11-01
Expires on 2021-11-01
Updated on 2020-11-01    
 
Name Servers    NS29.LINK-HOST.NET (has 6,549 domains)
NS30.LINK-HOST.NET (has 6,549 domains)
   
 
Tech Contact    —
IP Address    46.4.69.15 - 810 other sites hosted on this server
   
 
IP Location    Germany - Bayern - Nuremberg - Hetzner Online Ag
ASN    Germany AS24940 HETZNER-AS, DE (registered Jun 03, 2002)

[Dates 155 days oldCreated on 2020-05-29Expires on 2021-05-29Updated on 2020-08-13]

Warning, there is a fake https://dice2.win/ website out there, I wanted to put this on the Scam Accusations, but there might be few gamblers specially newbies who might not frequented that board and didn't see this warning.

I put them side by side for you to see that there's not much difference and you can easily fall for it specially if you are not checking the URL.

I can't find the ANN thread of dice2.win, but I got a few hits when I do some search, so definitely, this site is well known to many gamblers since 2019.

Fake Website:

Code:

http://dice2win.co/

Archive: https://archive.is/F5Cbo


Domain Info of the fake site.

Dates    155 days old
Created on 2020-05-29
Expires on 2021-05-29
Updated on 2020-08-13    
 
Name Servers    NS3.DNSRACKS.COM (has 3,104 domains)
NS4.DNSRACKS.COM (has 3,104 domains)
   
 
Tech Contact    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY,
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
(p) (f)
IP Address    65.60.34.165 - 431 other sites hosted on this server

Domain Info of the real site:

Dates    955 days old
Created on 2018-03-21
Expires on 2021-03-21
Updated on 2020-02-05
 
Name Servers    CARMELO.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 18,868,014 domains)
RUTH.NS.CLOUDFLARE.COM (has 18,868,014 domains)
   
 
Tech Contact    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY (DT)
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY,
REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY, REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
(p) (f)
IP Address    104.27.164.16 - 573 other sites hosted on this

[What happened:]

What happened: Fake 5000 Ethereum giveaway

Website:

Code:

https://winnerscrypto.live/

Archive: https://archive.is/2js7b

Registrant    REDACTED FOR PRIVACY
Registrant Org    WhoisGuard, Inc.
Registrant Country    pa
Registrar    NameCheap, Inc.
IANA ID: 1068
URL: https://www.namecheap.com/
Whois Server: whois.namecheap.com

(p)
Registrar Status    addPeriod, clientTransferProhibited
Dates    2 days old
Created on 2020-10-11
Expires on 2021-10-11
Updated on 2020-10-11

Again, seems to be very attractive rewards, 5000 ETH are going to be split and distributed, but don't as this is an obvious scam again.

https://twitter.com/amanusk_/status/1313070958794727430

What happened?

- A yield farming platform called Unicats supposedly stole least $200,000 worth of crypto from users as per Alex Manuskin

- it alleges that the developer put a backdoor on the Smart Contract code to be able to stole from it's users

So this is another expensive lessons to learn, the DEFI hype is still peaking and are not yet done. And I'm guessing that there could be more victims specially blindly trusting any projects who's developer are taking advantage of the complete anonymity in the crypto sphere.

Beware guys, there is a fake Ian Coleman Mnemonic Code Converter.

Website:

Code:

https://bipcalculator.io/

Archived: https://archive.is/0rGCq



https://who.is/whois/bipcalculator.io

The real website is: https://iancoleman.io/bip39/

So watch out for this kind of attacks, it will appear again on Google Ads, so please verify first and just don't blindly trust any crypto related websites.