April 18, 2024

$ 177 million in BTC were moved between PlusToken addresses

$ 177 million in BTC were moved between PlusToken addresses

The PlusToken fraudulent scheme, which caused the loss of about $3 billion in BTC and ETC, has intensified again.After a short break, the scammers again began to transfer funds, this time around $ 117 million in bitcoin.

Dovi Wang of Primitive Ventures tweeted:

The Plustoken coins are back in motion. I strongly recommend whale_alert to mark the addresses noted in the ErgoBTC study.

Indeed, the ErgoBTC researcher has already written about the addresses that were used to conduct the transaction.The sender's address is 1H2zrVQxU3ymunr9CunjoActooLW2ryQK7, and the recipient's address is 1KRhwg5PT4XsEHZxn19bMszbozeHyjANgSyM9iyjsZU1sKsR6uMCJ2qqRnh91ZX19ntM.

$ 177 million in BTC were moved between PlusToken addresses

Auditing firm Peckshield recently published a graph detailing the movements of funds involved in the PlusToken scheme.The chart shows that the hackers split the funds into parts and transferred them to various exchanges. 

$ 177 million in BTC were moved between PlusToken addresses

Recall that recently, researchers from Chainalysis said that the criminals behind the PlusToken scheme continue to sell a huge amount of bitcoins, thereby provoking a fall in the price of the asset.

Based on materialseng.ambcrypto.com