Klein Bottle Rug Pull

Reported loss $90K
Rugpull

What happened

The $KLB token has been rugpulled by the token creator. The token creator deployed $KLB token and when the price of it went up the scammer exchanged tokens for $BNB dumping the price of $KLB.

Klein Bottle's smart contract had never been published by the project deployer, Address 0x6093…c544. This implicates that any investors intending to conduct due diligence and research on the source code would not have encountered any useful information. In simple terms, the project stood only on the grounds of promises made by the team, which could not be checked by investors since the source of code was not available to them.

The creator of the $KLB token minted 100B $KLB tokens. (Tx 0x6d02…d319).

After the creation of the price asset, 70% of the total supply was sent to this address (Token transfers 0x4868…c91b), where the tokens are located at the time of this writing. 13.8% were distributed among various scammer addresses. Perhaps an attempt to make the token distribution appear more normal. The below transactions show where funds have been sent:

Transfer transaction to address (A): Tx 0x2d97…a421

Transfer transaction to address (B): Tx 0x6c26…4fea

Transfer transaction to address (C): Tx 0x4f08…a448

The address (A) created a liquidity pool between $BNB and $KLB. They waited until the token price became acceptable, then they started dumping the token price.

Stolen funds are currently located at these addresses:

  1. Address 0x6707…62b6 - ~ $87k
  2. Address 0xc42d…2300 - ~ $2k

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

Token contract address: Address 0x6093…c544

Scammer addresses:

  1. Address 0x13cd…30f8
  2. Address 0x6707…62b6
  3. Address 0xc42d…2300

Protocol details

Classification Token
Protocol Type Exit Scam/Rugpull
Affected asset / contract KLB

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