What happened
AniMoon, a play-to-earn NFT project has been rug pulled by its team, exploiting its investors and users for $6,3 million.
AniMoon is a P2E game based on the famous Pokemon cartoon series.
The NFT project AniMoon was a collection of 10k NFTs for 0.2 $ETH that was scammed by its team. The project claimed to have a cooperation with Pokémon, but in fact this was not the case.
Nevertheless, the project managed to raise funds from investors who were attracted by the appeal of the project.
Transactions of the $ETH theft from the collection to the scammer addresses can be seen here:
Then all stolen funds were transferred to Binance Hot Wallet.
Example transactions:
Involved addresses:
- Scammer address (A), token creator: https://etherscan.io/address/0x81d3ec77…17fe3b
- Scammer address (B): https://etherscan.io/address/0x7c60e482…feb6eb
- Scammer address (C):
https://etherscan.io/address/0x2098145e…5605c7
0x81d3ec77438b4e99aa99ba25b1dbc3fea317fe3b0x81d3ec77438b4e99aa99ba25b1dbc3fea317fe3b
Case & protocol details
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report halborn.com
- report Report cryptotimes.io
- report Report web3isgoinggreat.com
- report Report breadcrumbs.app
- analysis Web Archive web.archive.org
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