{"id":88798,"date":"2023-12-28T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T10:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88798"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:14:55","slug":"unknown-actors-pull-rug-on-fake-sleepless-ai-fomofi-and-nebulanode-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/unknown-actors-pull-rug-on-fake-sleepless-ai-fomofi-and-nebulanode-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown actors pull rug on fake Sleepless AI, FomoFi and NebulaNode tokens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Sleepless AI farming launch on Binance&#8217;s Launchpool, unknown actors carried out a <span data-descr=\"a practice of inflating the price of a token in a liquidity pool followed by a sharp withdrawal of funds; other pool participants are left with devalued assets\" class=\"old_tooltip\">rug pull<\/span> of the token of the same name. PeckShield analysts report this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> Sleepless AI <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24AI&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$AI<\/a> has dropped -97.5% <br \/>The address 0xB359\u20266f3d has swapped 1,000,000,000,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24AI&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$AI<\/a> for 37.7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> (~$91K) <br \/>*Note*: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rugpull?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rugpull<\/a> token shares the same name as the legitimate ones <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/C0M8vHxRbz\">pic.twitter.com\/C0M8vHxRbz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1740222125364125811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>They noted that one of the addresses swapped 1,000,000,000 fake AI for $37.7 ETH (~$91,000). As a result, the token price plunged by 97.5%.<\/p>\n<p>The farming of the original Sleepless AI project on Launchpool launched on <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-tops-300-as-binance-unveils-a-new-launchpool-project\">28 December<\/a>. It represents a gaming <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-web3\">Web3<\/a>-platform powered by AI. The token itself is not yet trading on Binance.<\/p>\n<p>Users can stake in BNB, FDUSD and TUSD pools to farm AI tokens. The campaign will run for seven days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A similar rug pull was carried out with a counterfeit FomoFi token. The original was launched on December 26.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> FomoFi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24FOMO&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$FOMO<\/a> has dropped -100% The address 0xB3Ff\u202647DD has swapped 5,370,814,630,572.9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24FOMO&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$FOMO<\/a> for 189.6K <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BSC&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BSC<\/a>-USD<br \/> *Note*: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rugpull?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rugpull<\/a> token shares the same name as the legitimate ones <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ssQpkoHkoa\">pic.twitter.com\/ssQpkoHkoa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1740222877356745147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The attacker\u2019s address swapped over 5.3 trillion FOMO for 189,600 BSC-USD, after which the coin&#8217;s price dropped to zero.<\/p>\n<p>Another incident devalued the NebulaNode token after swapping 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 1001 NNNN for 1,033.8 BNB ($335,900).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PeckShieldAlert<\/a> NebulaNode <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24NNNN&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$NNNN<\/a> has dropped -100% <br \/>The deployer 0xFDA4\u2026EA74 has swapped 100,100,100,100,100,100,100.1001 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24NNNN&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$NNNN<\/a> for 1,033.8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24BNB&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$BNB<\/a> ($335.9K) <br \/>*Note*: The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/rugpull?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#rugpull<\/a> token shares the same name as the legitimate ones <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t1hMJnLJwj\">pic.twitter.com\/t1hMJnLJwj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeckShieldAlert\/status\/1740224567250178281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, after the Sleepless AI announcement, the exchange token <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/bnb-tops-300-as-binance-unveils-a-new-launchpool-project\">BNB exceeded $300<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Sleepless AI farming launch on Binance&#8217;s Launchpool, unknown actors carried out a rug pull of the token of the same name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[744,44,1281,1246],"class_list":["post-88798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-binance","tag-cybercrime","tag-launchpool","tag-scammers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798","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=88798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88800,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88798\/revisions\/88800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}