Meta Apes Hack

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: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x2a4bb4fc…8f6a4d

Scammer address (C) transferred the received 150M token to scammer address (D): https://bscscan.com/tx/0x264bbb37…069a5b

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
2. Tx
3. Tx

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

1. Tx
2. Tx

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): https://bscscan.com/address/0x1b9dfc56…03911c

Token minter, scammer address (B): https://bscscan.com/address/0xd10c833f…8104ca

Scammer address (C): https://bscscan.com/address/0xd699576b…56edf7

Scammer Address (D): https://bscscan.com/address/0x5ba8c3f5…e2cfb2