The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of Seele, a Blockchain project that bills itself as “blockchain 4.0,” has been compromised by scammers who stole over $1.8 mln worth of Ether. The attackers manage to dupe investors by posing as admins in the company’s Telegram channel, as reported in an article published Sunday, Feb. 4 by the Finance Magnate news site.
Seele’s official ICO drop of 1 bln ERC-20-compliant SEELE tokens is supposed to take place “soon,” according to ICOdrops.
The scammers, posing as two admins of Seele’s official Telegram channel @SeeleSupport and @nicsmith, solicited members of the Seele chat over the direct messaging feature for Ether as part of a private sale. Dr. Nick Smith is a data analyst at Seele, and the Telegram channel reported that the scammer used his name and picture on the fake admin account.
Seele’s real administrator’s responded with an official statement pinned to their Telegram channel this morning, writing that they have formed an emergency response team and added a double authentication method for administrators.
The statement also posted the scammer’s wallet address, 0xB3239EF7a0fC08d56402a44A5367b8cdDaf295b8, which has a value of about $1,875,622.75 by press time…
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