{"id":13132,"date":"2024-05-01T17:40:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/chinese-authorities-detain-suspected-starknet-airdrop-thief\/"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:40:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T14:40:15","slug":"chinese-authorities-detain-suspected-starknet-airdrop-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/chinese-authorities-detain-suspected-starknet-airdrop-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Authorities Detain Suspected StarkNet Airdrop Thief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities have arrested a man named Lan Mou, suspected of forging personal data to steal StarkNet airdrops, according to local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepaper.cn\/newsDetail_forward_27237572\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained on April 25 in Guangdong province, in possession of a computer and two phones.<\/p>\n<p>With the acquired personal information, Mou allegedly impersonated others and submitted over 40 fraudulent requests to the Early Community Member Program by the StarkNet Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>This program was intended for early protocol users who assisted in bug detection and project development.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, Mou created numerous addresses for STRK and purchased accounts on Telegram and Discord. He sought application tickers for the airdrop on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>Through this scheme, he managed to obtain over 40,000 STRK, which he converted into 90,000 USDT via the OKX exchange.<\/p>\n<p>On February 20, StarkNet <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/starknet-initiates-strk-token-claim-and-lists-on-major-exchanges\">unlocked<\/a> 728 million STRK (7.3% of the issuance) for more than 1.3 million wallets as part of the airdrop. During the distribution, the project faced community criticism due to disruptions and the conditions for obtaining it.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, Yearn.Finance developer known as banteg <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bantg\/status\/1759923340737716287\">warned<\/a> that the StarkNet drop attracted a large number of airdrop hunters. According to him, approximately 701,544 of the 1.3 million eligible addresses were allegedly linked to duplicate or renamed GitHub accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in February, experts <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/airdrop-hunters-exploit-github-for-token-distribution\">identified<\/a> an airdrop hunting scheme through GitHub. Users began sending spam comments in project repositories expected to distribute tokens in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese authorities have arrested a man named Lan Mou, suspected of forging personal data to steal StarkNet airdrops, according to local media. He was detained on April 25 in Guangdong province, in possession of a computer and two phones. With the acquired personal information, Mou allegedly impersonated others and submitted over 40 fraudulent requests to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1158,133,1154,1177],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-airdrops","tag-china","tag-crimes","tag-starknet"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"10","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}