{"id":120557,"date":"2023-07-10T23:06:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T23:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/youtuber-turned-nft-scammer-on-chain-sleuth-investigates-1-5-million-crypto-thief-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T23:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T23:07:00","slug":"youtuber-turned-nft-scammer-on-chain-sleuth-investigates-1-5-million-crypto-thief-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/youtuber-turned-nft-scammer-on-chain-sleuth-investigates-1-5-million-crypto-thief-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTuber Turned NFT Scammer?  On-Chain Sleuth Investigates $1.5 Million Crypto Thief\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Blockchain detective ZachXBT has implicated a YouTuber with over 120,000 subscribers in over $1.5 million worth of crypto scams over the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>Some of those scams are connected to the infamous Monkey Drainer, an anonymous and boastful phishing scammer known for stealing people&#8217;s NFTs.<\/p>\n<h2>Linking \u201cBlue\u201d to Monkey Drainer<\/h2>\n<p>Before entering the world of crypto scams in July 2021, the scammer \u2013 known as either \u201cBlueXBT\u201d or \u201cJB Adventures\u201d (Jack) \u2013 had grown his YouTube following \u201cby uploading gaming and trolling videos,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1678384939048263682\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">tweeted<\/a> ZachXBT on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The on-chain sleuth connected Jack to the ENS address cool-breeze.eth, which he was shown publicly sharing in a leaked image from his Snapchat account.<\/p>\n<p>That same address <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/etherscan.io\/address\/0xc9a4fe3da7fb38e57fa14b273f05f190b535e395\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">purchased<\/a> BAYC 8668 in October 2022. However, had also received inflows of over 85 ETH from 8 Ethereum addresses connected to Monkey Drainer&#8217;s phishing scams.<\/p>\n<p>Monkey Drainer is known for stealing over $24 million worth of NFTs using a technique called &#8220;ice phishing.&#8221;  With this tactic, rather than soliciting a victim&#8217;s private keys directly, one baits them into signing a transaction that gives the hacker control of a user&#8217;s funds, using fraudulent crypto and NFT websites.<\/p>\n<p>In November, CryptoPotato <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptopotato.com\/monkey-drainer-on-hacking-spree-steals-another-520-eth-worth-nfts\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Reported<\/a> that Monkey Drainer has stolen over 1200 ETH worth of NFTs, including from collections like BAYC, CryptoPunks, and Otherside.<\/p>\n<p>ZachXBT shared screenshots from Discord in which Blue bragged about his BAYC purchase, while also instructing his workers assisting with his scams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5\/ On Discord Blue flexed his BAYC purchase and would share his methods scamming. <\/p>\n<p>The second and third screenshot is from an internal Discord server where Blue would instruct his workers. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l22ZubSCAc\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">pic.twitter.com\/l22ZubSCAc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zachxbt\/status\/1678384963836604416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">July 10, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately Blue was robbed of his BAYC in late 2022 after allegedly scamming Monkey out of his cut from a phishing scam,\u201d continued ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<h2>Blue&#8217;s Scams<\/h2>\n<p>Blue got back to scamming in short order, however, using new ENS addresses.  He spent his stolen funds on luxury items like cars, watches, and shoes, while using others to gamble on Stake.<\/p>\n<p>One of Blue&#8217;s more recent scams included 61.5k ETH and 93.3k USDT stolen rom <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/g13m\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">lovemake.eth<\/a>,  \u201cBlue received 49 ETH and 74K USDT for himself after the drainer fee,\u201d said ZachXBT.<\/p>\n<p>Another included a Milady &#038; Squiggle NFT phished from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ystrickler\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">yancey.eth<\/a> to Blue&#8217;s ENS purplelobster.eth.  The NFTs were worth roughly 12 ETH, of which Blue kept 10.3 ETH after the drainer fee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s disgusting to see these phishing scammers show zero remorse and spend the funds on tasteless items,\u201d concluded ZachXBT.  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Some of those scams are connected to the infamous Monkey Drainer, an anonymous and boastful phishing scammer known for stealing people&#8217;s NFTs. 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