One minute I was prepping for a Zoom call. Ten minutes later, large part of my life savings were gone.
It started with a message on Telegram from Alex Lin — someone I knew. He wanted to catch up.
I shared my Calendly link.
He booked a slot for the next day.
A few minutes before the call, he asked to switch to Zoom Business “for compliance reasons” — said one of his LPs would be joining - Kent (who I also knew)
Given we were doing a lot of treasury deals and there was genuine LP interest, it didn’t seem out of the ordinary.
I joined the Zoom. No audio.
But I could see both of them. They messaged in the chat: “Can you hear us?”
They told me to update Zoom to fix the audio issue.
That’s when it happened when I update.
Six wallets drained (my fault for not keeping things more buttoned up)
My laptop compromised completely.
Years of savings - gone in minutes.
I found out later that Alex’s account had been hacked.
And the worst part?While my wallet was being emptied, the hacker kept chatting on Telegram like nothing was wrong.
He even joked: “Let’s catch up at SG”
It was surreal and completely Violating. But in the darkest moment, whitehat hackers stepped up — complete strangers offering help when I was at my lowest
Turns out I was compromised by DPRK affiliated threat know as dangrouspassword
Attaching the video moment with the hacker (which was fake)
WHY ARE BITCOIN AND CRYPTO
DUMPING?
IN THE PAST FEW HOURS, BTC IS
DOWN OVER 5%, WHILE LARGE
CAPS ARE DOWN 8%-10%
THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE
CRYPTO MARKET AND EVERYTHING
TO DO WITH THE US STOCK MARKET.
THE US STOCK MARKET IS DUMPING
TODAY, AND IT'S JUST BECAUSE OF
ONE APP NAMED "DEEPSEEK."
DEEPSEEK IS A CHINESE AI STARTUP
THAT COMPETES WITH CHATGPT.
AS PER SOME ESTIMATES, IT COST <
$10M TO DEVELOP, WHICH IS WAY
LESS THAN CHATGPT
NOT ONLY THAT, TODAY IT
OVERTOOK CHATGPT TO BECOME
THE #1 FREE APP ON THE APPLE APP
STORE.
AS OF NOW, CHATGPT IS VALUED AT
$157 BILLION, WHILE DEEPSEEK IS
VALUED AT MERELY 0.2% OF THAT.
THIS HAS CAUSED A MAJOR
CONCERN AMONG LARGE US
INVESTORS AS THEY'RE THINKING
THAT THE US STOCK MIGHT BE TOO
OVERVALUED NOW, AND THEY'RE
SELLING IT SINCE THE MARKET HAS
OPENED.
I PERSONALLY THINK THERE'S NO
NEED TO PANIC SELL YOUR CRYPTO
AS THERE'S ALWAYS SOME FUD TO
SCARE THE MARKET.
HODL TIGHT AND JUST WAIT
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Have you ever thought to yourself, "I wish I had..."
bought bitcoins early
bought the dip
held
learned about crypto early
ignored FUD
But when the opportunity presents itself again, will you act?
Today is earlier than all the days to come. 🤷♂️
Not financial advice.
BREAKING: Someone just sold 5 of their @pudgypenguins for only $175 USD.
They probably mistook 35 USDC for 35 ETH (worth $116,970). That’s a ~$600K mistake.
Talk about a rough end to the year!
Stop fucking talking to your family and catching up with your dumbass retard friends…
Get back in front of your computer and buy our bags….NOW!!
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All my unlisted nfts including my @y00tsNFT@SOL_Decoder where immediately sold into offers
My @SmythsNFT and @MeegosNFT are staked but in the compromised wallet
I contacted a couple people from @DeGodsNFT but no reply yet👀