For anybody wondering what is going on with $CANCER live stream… my life was saved for whole 24 hours untill someone tuned in my stream and got me to download verified game on Steam

After this I was drained for over 32,000$ USD of my creator fees earned on pumpdotfun and everything quickly changed. I can’t breathe, I can’t think, im completely lost on what is going to happen next, can’t shake the feeling that it is my fault that I might end up on street again or not have anything to eat in few days… my heart wants to jump out of my mouth and it hurts.

I won’t rewatch this myself but I have added a clip from the stream after I noticed what has happened.

also I have succesfully (CTOed) my creator rewards and they have been redirected to safe device.

Source: rastaland.TV on X/Twitter— Private front-end.

More context:

Yesterday a video game streamer named rastalandTV inadvertently livestreamed themselves being a victim of a cryptodraining campaign.

This particular spearphishing campaign is extraordinarily heinous because RastaLand is suffering from Stage-4 Sarcoma and is actively seeking donations for their cancer treatment. They lost $30,000 of the money which was designated for their cancer treatment. In the steam clip their friend tries to console them while they cry out, “I am broken now.”

They were contacted by an unknown person who requested they play their video game demo (downloadable from Steam). In exchange for RastaLand playing their video game demo on stream, they would financially compensate them.

Unfortunately, the Steam game was actually a cryptodrainer masquerading as a legitimate video game.

Video.

Source: vx-underground on X/Twitter— Private front-end.

Source: ZachXBT on X/Twitter— Private front-end.

Rastaland GoFundMe.

Comments
  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 days ago

    yeah but if I have 30k in my bank account and it gets stolen from the bank then I have a stronger possibility of getting it back via insurance. There’s no insurance for crypto.

    Yes, but dependent on the circumstances. If the bank gets robbed, you are insured up to x amount of money lost. In the EU, I believe it’s up to 100.000 EUR. There’s never any guarantee though.

    If someone hacks your bank account, the bank is not automatically obligated to reimburse you. In some cases they will reimburse you, sometimes you’ll only get a limited reimbursement or nothing at all.

    Some crypto exchanges, like Binance have insurance, in case they lose a customers crypto.

    Now if I carry around 30k in my wallet and I either lose it or it gets stolen then that’s on me. But no one in their right mind is going to do that. So even if you keep your crypto worth 30k on an external drive and you lose it…that’s still on you. With Cash I have an option to keep it somewhere safe and more secure than my personal wallet. With Crypto I don’t have that option.

    You can make backups of your crypto wallet. You could even print it out on a piece of paper, put it on a USB, CD, DVD or whatever and place it in a bank vault. Crypto is safer to store than cash. You can’t copy your cash.

    Also If I buy something with my debit or credit card there are safety measures in place in case I get scammed or what have you.

    You mean the monopolies VISA and Mastercard? The ones that get to decide what stores are allowed to sell?

    I can charge back. Hell here in Canada we have something called Interac Money Transfer where we can transfer to anyone with a Canadian bank account and even that has protections. So you buy something off marketplace site and ends up you got scammed then you can recover your funds with Interac since the majority of people do transactions for that stuff that way. Again, I don’t have that option with Crypto.

    I actually doubt you can just charge back an Interac money transfer, since it’s just regular bank transactions.

    You should always use escrow.

    I would like to see something a bit more decentralised. I’m not really interested in using American VISA or Mastercard.

    I’m hoping Wero will take off asap.