Overview
Recently Scam Sniffer has discovered that some phishing incidents are related to a scam vendor called Inferno Drainer, who specializes in multi-chain scams and mainly charges 20% of the stolen assets. By analyzing the associated data on the Mainnet, Arbitrum, BNB, and other chains, we found them has stolen about $5.9 million in assets and have nearly 4,888 victims so far!
Inferno Drainer
Recently, a suspected Inferno member appeared in Scam Sniffer’s Telegram group, thanks to 0xSaiyanElite’s reminder. The user’s BIO links to Inferno’s official promotion channel.
In one of their channel screenshots, a $103k theft based on Permit2 was detected! By querying the transaction hash obscured in the screenshot, we found this transaction in ScamSniffer’s database and associated it with some known malicious addresses in our malicious address database.
Looking at their announcement: it’s a model that only charges 20% and 30% of the site-building fee.
Phishing Websites
By associating information, Scam Sniffer has monitored that Inferno has created over 689 phishing websites since 03-27.
Recent Update: The phishing sites increased to ~9500 after half a year.
These phishing websites target more than 220 brands, such as Pepe, Bob, Collab.Land, zkSync, Sui, ChainGPT, PUYSPOP, etc., which are popular projects recently.
| Brand | Sites |
|---|---|
| Pepe | 120 |
| Collab.Land | 33 |
| Bob | 28 |
| Optimism | 21 |
| Sui | 19 |
| zkSync | 19 |
| PSYOP | 18 |
| Floki | 13 |
| Arbitrum | 12 |
| Lens Protocol | 11 |
| LayerZero | 11 |
| Sei | 10 |
| SyncSwap | 9 |
| MetaMask | 8 |
| Scroll | 8 |
| Nakamigos | 8 |
| ChainGPT | 7 |
| Layer Zero | 7 |
| ZkSwap | 6 |
| Milady | 6 |
| MongCoin | 5 |
| Revoke.cash | 5 |
| Blur | 5 |
Stolen Statistics
By analyzing data from multiple chains, $5.9 million has been stolen so far, with about 4,888 victims. the Mainnet has $4.3 million, Arbitrum has $0.79 million, Polygon has $0.41 million, and BNB has $0.39 million.
Recent Update: The stolen amount increased to ~$75 million after half a year.
View more: https://dune.com/scamsniffer/inferno-drainer
Victims
One of the biggest victims, 0xbb0da7643a95c3a4b234d15d6bca7940fd1ed00b, lost $400,000 worth of assets.
After the theft, the victim has been trying to contact the scammer, hoping to repay 50% of the stolen amount.
Stolen Funds
By analyzing the on-chain funds collection addresses, it is estimated that there were approximately 1,699 ETH stolen and distributed among these 5 large addresses. They intentionally maintain the funds in each address at around 300-400 ETH.
0x1d05f69d14519a1c93007b468e30d5cb1f1658df
ETH: 358
0x075d9bbefacb33b7b73ab8559989776fa0107bb8
ETH: 407
0x76a973d1d7c15f07ef3e4729a2d370b15614444e
ETH: 391
0x6bc4895e09b4925c981e602335db93ec54d658cc
ETH: 289
0x3966175618db604adc33807197aace99b9ce73e6
ETH: 254
About Scam Sniffer
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