The scammers also used generative AI to create messages sent to re-establish a connection with the target. Scammers have continued to harass the victim after stealing his cryptocurrency, holding out the hope that he could recover his funds by depositing even more cryptocurrency into the scheme even after he blocked the scammer on WhatsApp, they continued to try to contact him through additional channels tied to his mobile number and e-mail. As with other forms of sha zhu pan scams we’ve seen recently, the victim was initially lured into a flirtatious correspondence with the actors hiding behind a dating app profile-in this case, on the app MeetMe. But one variant has been growing at a particularly rapid pace: fake “liquidity mining.” Sophos X-Ops has also seen growth in crypto phishing sites that connect to cryptocurrency wallets while impersonating cryptotrading-related brands in other types of scams, but these sites are often used by sha zhu pan scammers to separate victims from their money.Īmid research into a new wave of liquidity mining scams, I was directly contacted by a victim in the US who shared the entirety of their experience with us after losing $22,000 USD to a liquidity mining scam.
Crypto fraud has become the dominant form of Internet-based confidence schemes over the past three years, as demonstrated by the sha zhu pan (“pig butchering”) scams we recently investigated.
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