Information about a new potential scam appeared in the cryptocurrency media.
It is about the AnubisDAO project. He collected a whopping 13,256.4 ETH using Copper's LBP protocol. However, funds were unexpectedly sent to an unknown address approximately 20 hours after LBP started.
Losses nearly half a million dollars from one investor
CNBC spoke to one investor who claims to have lost nearly $ 470,000 to AnubisDAO. The investor, Brian Nguyen, agreed to donate funds to the project before he thoroughly investigated it. This should teach others a lesson.
Nguyen noticed that AnubisDAO interested him because of ... dog-related branding. He was counting on a phenomenon like dogecoin.
Let us add that Anubis is the Greek name of the Egyptian god of death and the underworld.
Investors appear to have lost around $ 57 million in total in ETH.
The Anubis project was promoted on Twitter by the well-known user "0xSisyphus". He published a detailed schedule for the creation and launch of AnubisDAO. He has now stated that he has involved law enforcement in both the United States and Hong Kong. He also publicly offered to stop the civil proceedings if the perpetrator repaid the funds.
According to 0xSisyphus, the idea for the project arose as a result of discussions among members of the PebbleDAO project on October 26 and 27. The telegram for the project was launched on June 27, and its six original members were from PebbleDAO. The next day, a decision is made that the pseudonymous founding member "Beerus" will be given the task of organizing the LBP. This 0xSisyphus decision is now referred to as "fatal error".
With just a few hours until the planned shutdown of the LBP on October 29, Beerus stated that he "opened a malicious link from a PDF file" and exposed the private keys used to run the LBP. 13,556 ethers were withdrawn from the LBP shortly thereafter, but Beerus' personal wallet seems to remain "intact and under his control."
0xSisyphus also notes that "security researchers delivered PDF files from phishing emails" distributed on the day Beerus claimed to have clicked on the malicious link, noting that "at this point no one found any malicious content contained in the PDF files".
