What happened
Friend Tech (FT) suffered a rugpull on Aug 19, 2023, causing a loss of 225,852 $USD (135.16 $ETH).
Friend Tech (FT), an ERC20 token trading on UniSwap, fell victim to an exitscam on Aug 19, 2023. The deployer added liquidity for 100 $ETH and removed it on the same day for 235.16 $ETH, resulting in a profit of 135.16 $ETH for the scammer. The stolen funds were transferred to another EOA and then bridged to the Base chain.
A portion of the stolen tokens remains at the scammer's EOA.
- Deployer Address:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x8522a110…33cCeD
- Scammer Addresses:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x0d540fc9…3734b8
https://etherscan.io/address/0x5b33f657…35d7c6
https://etherscan.io/address/0xe6c471ac…bb0a7c
- Funds Holder as of August 21, 2023:
https://etherscan.io/address/0x67f6EDaa…aBeaFf
- Liquidity Adding Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xfc032b29…a0f820
- Liquidity Removal Transaction:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x48e826fe…751056
- Bridging Transactions:
https://etherscan.io/tx/0xec1b344f…89b954
https://etherscan.io/tx/0x32e8ce4c…1d2127
Case & protocol details
Post-Incident Timeline
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2023-08-29
On August 29, 2023, the project was rugpulled on the Base chain for an additional 134 ETH. The stolen funds were distributed between multiple EOA addresses. Scammer Addresses: https://basescan.org/address/0xda238153e1ec9beafafd2bffeacb27cb29a63bcb https://basescan.org/address/0x8281b589ea0c0b126af00df3fae781140920500a Funds Draining Transaction: https://basescan.org/tx/0x87aeeaccf47eeaea17f637a0ab1b916e47bd9e4b7d7afb9a5a31f3b94c08f1fd
Evidence & learning
Sources and on-chain records
- report Report twitter.com
- report Report twitter.com
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