WSB Coin Rug Pull

Reported loss $635K
Rugpull

What happened

On the 4th of May WSB Coin (WSB) on the Ethereum main net was rugged for approx 635k USD.

The team was responsible for managing tokens in the WSB protocol executed a token dumping scam, causing the project significant losses. One of the team addresses received a substantial amount of tokens by calling the claimWSBModeratorsAllocation() function and sold off the tokens, leading to a sharp drop of around 90% in its initial price.

claimWSBModeratorsAllocation call:

Tx 0xef1b…15b3

Sale example txs:

Tx 0x0075…d7eb

Tx 0x5f79…56b8

Tx 0xe6d7…7a7e

Tx 0x1289…48ec

Scammer address:

Address 0x0ae0…7894

Protocol details

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

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