- Forensic report compiled by the research collective behind the takedown of Block Blasters— Credit: 1989 on X/Twitter.
- G DATA Report.
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.
Source: vx-underground on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
Source: ZachXBT on X/Twitter— Private front-end.
Comments
It’s like playing with fire, stop playing with crypto
So I’m not quite sure I understand the tone of a lot of the comments here. Didn’t this person download a file from Steam that had malware on it? That’s the Crux of the issue right? Cuz that seems like a big deal but people are acting like he just downloaded a random file off the internet.
That’s the thing, it’s not a big deal, and it is essentially a random file off the Internet. If you’re going to dabble in crypto, it’s on you to understand the risks you’re taking. Even Google and Apple can’t keep malware off their platforms 100%, they manage because they have full control of the OS to back them up. Steam does not guarantee their platform is malware-free, and there’s no way for them to realistically do so.
Don’t banks have insurance for this kind of thing?
Banks do, crypto doesn’t
It really says someþing profound about human nature þat folks can hate someþing as abstract as cryptocurrency so much, þat þey revel in a victim’s grief. It’s not even þe schadenfreude of Nazis getting þeir comeuppance, or of Sovereign Citizens getting hard lessons in legal realities.
It’s depressing þat so many Fedizen’s opinion is þat þis guy deserved what happened just because he was collecting donations þrough crypto.
why the weird th/f?
He likes collecting downvotes
They kept 30k on the same computer as their gaming device where they download random stuff from commenters. Almost every large YouTuber has had their google account hijacked this way, you should be able to designate a threat level of a device, and warn you if you have too much stored.
I’m not blaming the victim, I blame the system for not making it stupidly obvious that this is bad cybersecurity.
I have given up on the average user being willing and able to take proper care of their cybersecurity.
At this point, I blame the software, at least in part. Games should run sandboxed, by either the OS or whatever platform/launcher invoked their execution.
But currently video games love to install themselves with kernel privileges, and their users will even defend that practice, so there’s that.
yeah honestly this doesn’t surprise me anymore. The average PC user doesn’t even do backups. I mean I have Nix automatically backup my stuff because I, like the average user, am bad at doing it manually.
Should you keep Crypto on your daily driver PC? probably not. I’m not an expert on that crap but for me that would be a safe assumption based on the sheer amount of scams I’ve read about. And you’re right that games especially should be sandboxed - this is why I run steam via flatpak.
It’s because people don’t want to pay for things they don’t see the immediate value of. It’s the same as why companies often skim on IT security. I tell people they should just get Backblaze to backup their computer if they don’t want to buy hardware and deal with backups but the 10 euro a month is somehow too much. These are not the people who will spend the money to buy a second computer or a hardware wallet to store crypto.
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This breaks my fucking heart. That poor man.
This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.
But the lesson of this is the same: don’t ever use crypto currencies. Don’t accept them, don’t buy with them, don’t mine them, don’t even look at them. Even if you don’t get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.
That’s like saying don’t use cash, cause criminals use them.
My bank will reimburse me when I’m scammed by someone illegally draining my account of money.
Crypto will not.
Crypto is just Pokemon cards with more steps.
That really depends on how you got scammed.
When you say “Crypto will not”, how is that the same thing as money kept in the bank? If you had cash on you and someone stole it, you won’t get reimbursed by your bank either.
Crypto is just a commodity or used as a tool and in a lot of cases, specific crypto is just used to scam people, cause’ everyone wanna make the next Bitcoin and cash out.
This is extremely naive. We’re on Lemmy, I’m on programming.dev, you run your own instance. You and I know how crypto works, how to use it, how to protect it and ourselves, etc.
99.9999999% (nine nines) of the population is not prepared for that. Most people who buy crypto are going to get scammed, either via petty theft/hacking like in the OP, or via large market manipulation scams that nobody can protect against because lol decentralization. The only way to make crypto safe for mainstream use is to reinvent the wheel of regulations and centralization that already exists for existing financial systems. In the mean time, scammers/dictators/psychopaths are going to make a lot of money.
For the people who find themselves swept up by the fantasies of decentralization, they can get the same high by buying doomsday food buckets at their local Costco.
What is naive and what is the population not prepared for?
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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.
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.
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. 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’m by no means an expert on crypto stuff, I have used it to buy some things in the past or get paid but It’s an immediate cash > crypto > cash sort of deal. Any crypto that does go into a wallet is immediately used or converted to cash.
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.
Probably shouldn’t use banks either because HSBC exist.
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I’m sure you got a clue.
So person promoting scam site gets scammed of crypto earned through said scam site. Nice.
