Cryptos Tribe Rug Pull

Reported loss $91K
Rugpull

What happened

The $CSTC token has been rugpulled by it's team. Scammers took a profit of $91k.

The creator of the token deployed the contract to the BSC network, where 1B tokens were minted to him:

Tx 0xec71…3ba0

After that, the token creator started sending tokens to other addresses:

Token transfers 0xce21…c105

Scammer address (C) interacted with the finalize function, which created a pool of liquidity between the CSTC/BNB pair: Tx 0x8506…a479

After a while, when investors invested in the token, scammer address (B) started dumping the price of the token in this transaction:

Tx 0xe439…511c

$CSTC tokens were received by scammer address (B) in this transaction: Tx 0x6c8c…bce7

Funds were laundered via Tornado.cash.

As the time of this writing information on this case is scarce. More sources will be added if the case should develop.

Involved addresses:

Token creator, scammer address (A): Address 0xce21…c105

Scammer address (B): Address 0x17fb…2898

Scammer address (C) - LP creator: Address 0x664b…1bba

Liquidity pool creation transaction: Tx 0x8506…a479

Contracts interacted with:

Bonus Pools:

  1. Address 0xa49e…db37
  2. Address 0x82e9…3df3
  3. Address 0x4459…3327

Protocol details

Classification Token
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract CSTC
Protocol links Website @CryptosTribe

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