Chinese authorities have arrested a man named Lan Mou, who is suspected of forging personal data to steal the StarkNet airdrop. This is reported by local media.
He was detained on April 25 in Guangdong Province. He was carrying a computer and two telephones.
Thanks to the personal information obtained, Moe allegedly impersonated other people and submitted more than 40 fake requests for the Early Community Member Program from the StarkNet Foundation.
This program was intended for early users of the protocol, who helped in detecting bugs and developing the project.
According to the investigation, Moe created a large number of addresses for STRK, and also bought accounts in Telegram and Discord. He searched for tickers for drop requests on GitHub.
Thanks to this scheme, he managed to get more than 40,000 STRK, which he converted into 90,000 USDT through the OKX exchange.
On February 20, StarkNet unlocked 728 million STRK (7.3% of the issue) for more than 1.3 million airdrop wallets. During the distribution, the project was criticized by the community due to failures and conditions for receiving it.
Then the developer of Yearn. Finance under the pseudonym banteg warned that the StarkNet drop attracted a large number of airdrop hunters. According to him, approximately 701,544 of the 1.3 million eligible addresses are allegedly associated with duplicate or renamed GitHub accounts.
Recall that in February, experts discovered the scheme of airdrop hunting via GitHub. Users have started sending spam comments in the repositories of projects that are expected to distribute tokens in the future.
He was detained on April 25 in Guangdong Province. He was carrying a computer and two telephones.
Thanks to the personal information obtained, Moe allegedly impersonated other people and submitted more than 40 fake requests for the Early Community Member Program from the StarkNet Foundation.
This program was intended for early users of the protocol, who helped in detecting bugs and developing the project.
According to the investigation, Moe created a large number of addresses for STRK, and also bought accounts in Telegram and Discord. He searched for tickers for drop requests on GitHub.
Thanks to this scheme, he managed to get more than 40,000 STRK, which he converted into 90,000 USDT through the OKX exchange.
On February 20, StarkNet unlocked 728 million STRK (7.3% of the issue) for more than 1.3 million airdrop wallets. During the distribution, the project was criticized by the community due to failures and conditions for receiving it.
Then the developer of Yearn. Finance under the pseudonym banteg warned that the StarkNet drop attracted a large number of airdrop hunters. According to him, approximately 701,544 of the 1.3 million eligible addresses are allegedly associated with duplicate or renamed GitHub accounts.
Recall that in February, experts discovered the scheme of airdrop hunting via GitHub. Users have started sending spam comments in the repositories of projects that are expected to distribute tokens in the future.
