On October 5, 2023, a blockchain investigator by the name of ZachXBT stated that a single scammer had stolen 234 ETH, which is roughly comparable to $385,000, from four customers of Friend.tech over the course of a single day. A SIM-swap assault was carried out by the con artist in order to acquire unauthorised access to the accounts of the victims. It was determined that the same hacker who had drained the accounts of the four victims was responsible for the theft of the assets.
One of the victims, who goes by the Twitter handle “KingMgugga,” reported the incident while it was happening in real time, saying that they were “getting f—ing sim swapped watching it happen.” Another user who goes by the name “holycryptoroni” stated that they had a similar experience by adding, “I got swapped sorry.” In the early part of this week, four more customers of Friend.tech reported losing a combined total of around 109 ETH as a result of…
