cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37902936
- Forensic report compiled by the research collective behind the takedown of Block Blasters— Credit: 1989 on X/Twitter.
- G DATA Report.
For anybody wondering what is going on with $CANCER live stream... my life was saved for whole 24 hours untill someone tuned in my stream and got me to download verified game on Steam
After this I was drained for over 32,000$ USD of my creator fees earned on pumpdotfun and everything quickly changed. I can't breathe, I can't think, im completely lost on what is going to happen next, can't shake the feeling that it is my fault that I might end up on street again or not have anything to eat in few days... my heart wants to jump out of my mouth and it hurts.
I won't rewatch this myself but I have added a clip from the stream after I noticed what has happened.
also I have succesfully (CTOed) my creator rewards and they have been redirected to safe device.
Source: rastaland.TV on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
More context:
Yesterday a video game streamer named rastalandTV inadvertently livestreamed themselves being a victim of a cryptodraining campaign.
This particular spearphishing campaign is extraordinarily heinous because RastaLand is suffering from Stage-4 Sarcoma and is actively seeking donations for their cancer treatment. They lost $30,000 of the money which was designated for their cancer treatment. In the steam clip their friend tries to console them while they cry out, "I am broken now."
They were contacted by an unknown person who requested they play their video game demo (downloadable from Steam). In exchange for RastaLand playing their video game demo on stream, they would financially compensate them.
Unfortunately, the Steam game was actually a cryptodrainer masquerading as a legitimate video game.
Source: vx-underground on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
Source: ZachXBT on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
Comments
I’ll be the asshole: why the fake money wasn’t immediately converted to real money giving directly the exchange address instead of a locally hosted wallet? Except bitcoin all the shitcoins are devaluating in real time
With meme coins, the liquidity is dogshit. There's no real market for sale.
If you sell the tokens piece-by-piece as you get them, you drive down the future price and might get less real money overall. Better to sell a big chunk at once.
Also, not every exchange has a wallet/custody system. It's entirely possible for direct p2p trades to happen without any intermediate transfers. I don't know if pump.fun actually does this.
This is why services like steam don't offer bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as a method of payment. Because you're screwed no matter what you do, if you convert it you drive the cost down, if you don't convert it it stays in this unsecured unverified easy to steal format with insane value fluctuation. You would literally be better off getting paid in roubles.
They (Steam) offered Bitcoin payment, but pulled out because of what you said. They were covering the changes in fluctuation, but ultimately it was too unstable. I recall a statement from them saying something like, the value fluctuated too much during the brief checkout process, even.
Criminals are often not the most highly intellectual people on this planet...