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Monday, June 23, 2025

You don’t need a fake website anymore.
You need a Telegram bot and a $500 subscription.

That’s the new phishing stack: plug-and-play wallet drainers sold like SaaS, complete with UX polish, customer support, and “instant deploy” buttons. They don’t pretend to be dApps—they pretend to be infrastructure. And they’re getting better at it every week.

It starts with a slick Telegram interface. One where you paste airdrop links, mint pages, “official” project announcements. Behind the curtain? A script-packed backend with preloaded logic to hijack wallet sessions, inject malicious payloads, and drain funds faster than the user can ask, “wait, did I click the right link?”

These aren’t amateurs. They’re product teams.
They A/B test hook messages.
They run uptime monitoring on their fake RPC endpoints.
They build dashboards to track conversion rates on phished clicks.

And they sell it all in neat little bundles:

• Drainer-as-a-Service
• Auto-rebind logic for phishing reattempts
• Custom branding for your “project”
• Private chat support if you “have trouble draining wallets”

Even the tooling is modular. Swap in a custom domain. Add your own emoji pack. Choose which scam to run today: permit phishing, blind signing, fake seaport listings, or token approvals masked in pop-up prompts that look just like MetaMask.

For victims, it’s seamless. For attackers, it’s scale.

What used to take a fake site, stolen assets, and hours of setup can now be cloned in one click from a Telegram message. The drainer payloads are updated daily. The wallet targets are broad. And if the bot gets flagged or banned? Just launch another. The ecosystem is permissionless—just like the networks they exploit.

Let’s not sugarcoat it.

Web3 is being farmed by automated phishing toolkits running on group chats.

And the devs aren’t hiding — they’re promoting in dark Telegram channels with trial discounts and “premium phishing templates”.

Welcome to wallet theft with version control. Your seed phrase is one command away from becoming someone else’s liquidity.

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We are all rekt.