A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) founder on Twitter, Thomasg.eth, has revealed how he almost lost all his ETH to a social engineering scam. In a long thread, he explained in detail how scammers almost got him.
How the scammers tried to pull off their act
His DAO, Arrow, is building open source VTOL aircraft and air taxi protocol. He claimed that someone named heckshine reached out to him about two weeks ago. Heckshine claimed to be working at Ubisoft and offered help with 3D design and animation.
It also turned out that heckshine has a friend named Linh who’s passionate about metaverse and VTOLs and has a brother-in-law working with Boeing. With all the initial web woven, all that was left was for Lihn to swoop in.
Linh claimed to be working on the Space Falcon metaverse project and wanted a partnership with Arrow DAO. Before proceeding with the partnership, Thomas claimed he checked Space Falcon to confirm that it’s an actual project on Solana and saw Lihn’s nam
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