1/ I uncovered a coordinated network of 25+ accounts larping as profitable traders to drive volume to crypto scams.
Combined they have over 900,000 followers and managed to extract over $700,000 last month alone.
Here's their exact strategy:
By day she wrote cybersecurity advice for Forbes.
By night she helped her husband launder billions in stolen bitcoin.
A $500 Walmart gift card got them caught.
In August 2016, Ilya Lichtenstein broke into the crypto exchange Bitfinex.
He found a flaw in their security system.
Then he clicked withdraw more than 2,000 times.
119,754 bitcoin walked out the door, worth about $72 million at the time.
He deleted the access logs and sat on the coins.
For five years, nobody knew who he was.
His wife Heather Morgan wrote columns for Forbes on how to spot a cybercriminal.
She also rapped under the name Razzlekhan, called herself the Crocodile of Wall Street.
Together they laundered the stolen coins through darknet markets, mixers, and fake identities.
They bought gold. NFTs. And a $500 Walmart gift card.
That was the mistake.
They bought the card with stolen bitcoin and redeemed it in the Walmart iPhone app.
Under an account in Heather's real name.
In February 2022, federal agents raided their Manhattan apartment.
They found burner phones hidden inside hollowed-out books.
$40,000 in cash.
A laptop file labeled "passport_ideas."
The DOJ seized $3.6 billion in bitcoin, the largest financial seizure in US history at the time.
Ilya got five years, served 14 months. Heather got 18 months, served even less.
In October 2025, Heather posted a video from a bathtub thanking "Papa Trump" for her release.
The White House denied and said Trump had nothing to do with it. Both were out under a 2018 prison reform law.
The bitcoin they stole would be worth around $8 billion today.
And it all came down to a $500 Walmart gift card.
lets not forget, Singapore made Binance unusable in 2021
while FTX was still open to Singaporeans, sending an entire nation of retail crypto traders into the slaughterhouse when FTX collapsed
🚨 Curve’un kurucusu, kendi tokenından 100 milyon $'lık satış yaparak Avustralya’da malikane almış haberimiz yok.
2023’te Curve Finance kurucusu Michael Egorov, bazı protokoller üzerinden 100 milyon dolarlık stablecoin borçlanmış.
Teminat olarak kendi tokeninin dolaşımdaki arzının %47’sini vermiş :D
Bir ay sonra eşi, bir yıl önce satın aldıkları 18 milyon dolarlık evin hemen yanındaki Melbourne’da 41 milyon dolarlık bir malikane daha satın almış
Temmuz 2023’te Curve hacklenmişti hatırlarsınız belki. Tam 70 milyon dolar.
Bunu önlemek için Egorov, piyasa fiyatının çok altında, token başına 0.40 $'dan OTC anlaşmalarla 106 milyon CRV sattı.
Bu anlaşmalardan 42 milyon dolarlık stablecoin topladı.
Nisan 2024’te bunu tekrar yaptı.
Haziran 2024’te CRV 3 saatte %24 çöktü.
Ethereum geliştiricisi Eric Conner:
“140 milyon CRV’lik pozisyondan 100 milyon stablecoin çıkardı. Zararı sadece topluluğa aktardı.”
Curve’un kurucusu Egorov:
“veTokenomics sistemi sayesinde Curve’u inşa etmeye daha da bağlı”
Kalan CRV’lerini kilitleyerek yönetişim gücünü elinde tutmaya devam etti.
$CRV, ATH'den bu yana %98 aşağıda.
Egorov hala iki malikaneye sahip.
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The kid who went viral for scamming and made a 7 figure portfolio
the “Quant Kid”
- 13 years old
- random teen with a laptop
- finds crypto
November 20, 2024
- launches a token on Pumpfun
- Gen Z Quant (QUANT)
- goes live on stream
- watches the chart pump 260% in minutes
- sells everything in one click
- dumps the full stack
profit: 128 SOL (~$30,000)
“No way, thanks for the 20 bandos”
- flips off the camera
- traders refuse to let it die
- massive community takeover (CTO)
market cap peaks between $82M - $90M
if he held, his bag would’ve been worth $4,000,000
- doxxed within hours
- full name exposed
- school identified
- family members targeted
- new tokens launched with family photos
- reports claim his dog was kidnapped
he doubles down
- launches SORRY
- sells into it for ~$13,000
- launches LUCY
- dumps ~$12,000
- launches CABAL (dog photo branding)
- pulls ~$20,000
total estimated extraction: ~$53,000+
the teenager who rugged live and extracted $50k from the market
And now he’s still flexing on the timeline
@badattrading_ DFZraq4R29H2vDHketoC4n1TBiJyJGc75JP93QvSpump. can you please review this scam token. its bubble map is horrible. pumpfun bundled 5 transactions. but @dexscreener mod is protecting them . i think its the dexscreener team own token.