Your daily reminder to REVOKE permissions you have given (I got scammed by vladimir-putin.eth)
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I got scammed, I never thought I would be a victim of such thing… I try to be always vigilant when using different De-Fi protocols, exchanges, wallets, contracts, I used to consider myself I seasoned De-Fi sailor, but this time I screwed up.
I got scammed because I didn’t check my permissions. The perpetrators had approval for tokens withdrawal 5 days before they actually withdrew them…
I have no idea what happened, today I went to check my Arbitrum network holdings, since I remember having couple of hundred ARB and there was no ARB, zero, nada. It felt very strange so I started investigating and saw that around 2 weeks ago I have sent around $1000 in 3 transactions to address “0x00005D0c9Ac39DB0798f6cA947202E5F55A10000” with the ironical ENS Vladimir-putin.eth …
When I saw this, the panic kicked in. First thing I went is to revoke every single thing on the list and the address was there, sitting in the unlimited allowances somehow.
After the revokes I started withdrawing everything possible to binance.
I have no clue how he could snap this money from 3 different networks, but left around $1500 worth of other tokens on the same networks and even more scattered around different protocols. I have no idea why he chose those networks and specifically those tokens.
My initial thought was that I was frontran on uniswap or something like this. I haven’t initiated the transactions myself, which probably means that I have interacted with or signed some malicious contract. I can see from the history that I have interacted with RDNT with ARB before the withdrawal, but I haven’t interacted with PENDLE for at least a month and it was the first thing that he grabbed?
But for some reason I believe that I’ve screwed up with something on opensea, as I remember trying to do something on it that day on my phone.
From his history what I can see is that he has been doing it for a while and has over $740k thrown at non-kyc exchange just in the past 2 months.
Nonetheless, this loss stings a lot, but it isn’t life changing money for me, I have a big life event coming soon so I would probably be selling my Moons to cover for the loss and I will be staying off de-fi for the time being, ill focus just on BTC.
With all said, guys, stay vigilant, stay away from the deep waters of De-Fi, don’t go to random websites that you don’t know and check your revokes daily, if not multiple times a day, https://revoke.cash .
Thanks to u/zoomercoomer9000 for pointing out the earndrops scam. This is where I fell for it. Feel so dumb now.🤦🏻♂️ be careful what links you open on Twitter.
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