Meta Apes Rug Pull

The $Shell token was rugpulled by the token creator. The token creator took away approximately $180k in profit.

$Shell is the in-game utility token of the NFT-Game Meta Apes.

The account with minter privileges minted 150M $SHELL token to scammer address (C) in this transaction: Tx 0x2a4b…6a4d

Scammer address (C) transferred the received 150M token to scammer address (D): Tx 0x264b…9a5b

Then scammer address (D) proceeded to dump 60 million $SHELL token on PancakeSwap in a series of transactions for a total profit of $180k.

Here is an example of transactions:

1. Tx 0x1ea7…c242
2. Tx 0x7ff1…af6f
3. Tx 0x2474…5f81

Then all the receive funds were transferred to the Binance Hot Wallet 6 along this chain of transactions:

1. Tx 0xaf9d…0182
2. Tx 0x75ff…ca59

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

Token creator, scammer address (A): Address 0x1b9d…911c

Token minter, scammer address (B): Address 0xd10c…04ca

Scammer address (C): Address 0xd699…edf7

Scammer Address (D): Address 0x5ba8…cfb2