Okay so I've received a ton of questions since starting to post these delayed honeypots. Mainly these two:
- How can it be a honeypot when every scan is showing a clean/safe when renounced contract?
- How can I find out that it's a honeypot when the scanners doesn't show it?
So for the first question the answer is as simple as it is confusing. The scanners doesn't pick up the honeypot at launch, since there isn't one. Makes no sense, right? Let's take it step by step.
1. Scammer funds a new wallet.
2. As the address of a new contract deployment can be calculated in advance, the scammer does exactly this, but doesn't deploy the contract. Yet.
3. The calculated address is added to the code of the token contract, for example as the marketing wallet. After funding another new wallet, the dev will now deploy the token contract.
4. When trading starts, funds will flow to the marketing wallet added and if you check it on etherscan, it looks like any ordinary wallet. And since it's just a wallet, scanners doesn't see it as malicious. But as this is just a calculated future smart contract address, the devs doesn't have any keys for it and can currently not move the funds.
5. When happy with the token progress, the scammer will deploy a malicious contract from the wallet in step 1. As this is deployed on the marketing wallet address, the MW is suddenly no longer a regular wallet, but a smart contract tied to the token which allows the devs to either manually or automatically make it unsellable and/or take control of LP functions in the contract to drain even locked or burnt LP's.
6. RIP user funds.
For the second question, I can't reveal exactly how I find these as I believe it would help the scammers avoid detection more than it would help most people avoid buying into them - but there are still measures that can be taken to dodge them.
1. Load the contract into code reader on @etherscan and search for 0x.
They can't turn the deployer into a contract, so if the token use the deployer as tax receiver and you find no other wallet reference in the code, you should be safe from this type of delayed honeypot.
If you find a wallet address that leads to a fresh wallet and the word private just before, it's a red flag.
2. Scan the contract on telegram with @OttoBots_xyz. Avoid anything with only 1 deployment (check screenshot). Unique contracts rarely end well.
3. Enter their tg and try to work honey or hp into a sentence. These scammers usually have autodelete on a number of combinations of honey and pot.
4. Be vigilant about suspicious functions even in renounced contracts, like the one from.@TTFBot in the screenshot.
Oh, and as for creepy. You yourself pushed the failed dox job of pit members by WCOme and the wayfinders as a fact. Besides it being both illogical and creepy to do that in the first place, it was also sloppy work that resulted in people who probably never even heard about $WCO in the first place have their face on CT and getting slandered.
Unlike that debacle, mapping out wayfinder, whale and wallets of well known community members actually serves a purpose. It means I can debunk any unfair claims made against you all, which I have. Unlike the team wallets I've published, nobody else has access to my records of doxed wallets and people in the $WCO community.
@XJohansonnn_WCO@FIREDUPJon@XJohansonnn@VenomousInsect It's all good man, I wasn't trying to start a discussion about your wallet or actions within it. It's your holdings. I was just pointing out that taking profits off a buyback isn't a bad idea and I hope some people that has been in a tough spot did the same.
@XJohansonnn_WCO@FIREDUPJon@XJohansonnn@VenomousInsect Nevermind about @grge4t34Sht. I guess he just briefly forgot that he's never able to counter any arguments and went back to hiding behind a block.
But I would love to hear an answer from you XJO, at some point at least one $WCO supporter should be able to defend the project, no?
If we stick to the facts here, anyone listening to me from the start would not only have avoided the current ~90% drop (over 98% at ATL), but also if they were truly degen minded (nothing I recommended of course) would have bought back in at 0.00021 - 0.00023 as this pump was predicted in the pit about a month ago.
In contrast to the beliefs of wayfinders like @animalinvestor, I think a team induced pump is a great thing. It gives all holders a rare PVE opportunity to either secure their initials or even get out with no/less loss. Seeing as you've deposited more than 11m $WCO to Bitrue yourself this past week, I guess there's a good chance you're in agreement with me on that.
Also, since both you and @grge4t34Sht are currently out of hiding for the moment I'll take the opportunity for some questions:
How are you guys feeling about the hack report these days?
Did you try doing the tutorial to confirm for yourselves how the team announced LP was actually 100% consisting of stolen supply from Polygon?
I'd argue that both desperation and rent-free would apply more to people who need to crop pictures to hide the fact that the screenshot on the left isn't me.
That's the $WCO wayfinders in a nutshell for you. Can't defend their project using facts and hiding behind blocks 24/7.
@_TheDude____@SomersWill21337 @langiks @animalinvestor If it was an undervalued L1, then I wouldn't be bothered at all.
My motive? I just happen to enjoy this type of work. Sometimes things are just that simple.
Not trying to save current investors at this stage though, rather trying to make sure potential new ones are informed.
Didn't see his post, so can't say. Since you know... you guys deleted it. That's his own claim though.
The team did provide information. Problem is the information was easy to disprove since it even got the most basic things wrong. Like the amount of supply bridged from Polygon for example.
This in turn made their claim on supply recovered a mathematical impossibility.
In what way has my intentions been bad though? People have been saying that since I viciously claimed the $WTK bridge was compromised and supply was higher than 500m, but I've yet to see the reasoning behind it. All I do is post verifiable information.
It might not be a secret, but some of your colleagues has called bs on real numbers, while @cryptoperrix was the first wayfinder to give the community an accurate range. That happened just 2 weeks ago.
Victus transfers are indeed over, and as you might be aware due to forwarded "harassment" I estimated it to end around August 23-24 a couple of months ago. One week off due to being a bit optimistic on the discount percentage sadly (from a holder perspective).
Point being you never gave the community accurate information during the 7+ months the deal was live, at least not until the very end, and as such I had to inform those asking about it since no wayfinder would.
Are you aware you guys banned the guy who gave you the DM screenshot you posted btw? This because he asked about Victus again, and he ended up asking me for help. You keep alienating your own supporters one by one.
I'm afraid the blockchain still supports that Anish has indeed been naughty. If you allowed this to be discussed openly, it would be easy to show and impossible to dispute. But you don't. I've always encouraged the team, wayfinders and community to disprove any if my claims and provide alternate explanations, but so far that has been met with complete silence and even the "security incident" report raised more red flags while settling none.
Well, I wouldn't be hiding if you guys hadn't banned me despite never committing any infractions.
If you weren't so desperate to keep me out (despite me not wanting to discuss my findings in there), I could assist people directly in the chat. As you say, this is something I often have to do through DM's instead. I've given you the tools to track both circulation and Victus transfers yourself, but since you don't use them, I do whenever you fail.
If I had no value to add, why have several of your $WCO wayfinder had to retract statements due to my input?
Could have saved you so much embarrassment this year if you all didn't hide.
Speaking of which, perhaps you should ask @Cibz12x to delete the retweet of the impersonator trying to drain people's wallets?
Great to hear! So since you have nothing to hide I guess you wouldn't have any issues with adding what @ValHallaBuilder wrote yesterday back in the chat?
I didn't even have time to read the whole post before deletion.
If my accurate information was merely guess work, then why can you never find any holes in it? Instead it keeps getting proven right. Guess work is what you guys did when failing to dox fudders, so it's quite different from verifiable facts.
@SomersWill21337 @langiks @animalinvestor I'd say that probably pretty accurate since he unblocked, replied, deleted post and re-blocked twice.
His handler was probably stressed out about another public embarrassment and we do know @animalinvestor is an obidient one.
Such great representation of $WCO.