LATEST: 🚨 TRM Labs says 9 fake YouTube tutorials on building a crypto arbitrage bot with Claude tricked 224 victims into deploying self-draining smart contracts, netting scammers 274.60 ETH over 6 months.

Sep 19, 2026 · 3:35 AM UTC

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guessing the comments section on those videos was suspiciously supportive
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The scary part is how convincing the attack vector looks. One bad tutorial and a smart contract interaction can turn into a very expensive lesson.
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The giveaway is a tutorial that asks you to paste in your seed phrase to deploy.
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Of course YouTube's AI doesn't bother removing any of these, and instead removes established YouTube channels that are 10 years old
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They wanted easy money. They learned the hard way.
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It annoys me to think sometimes how much more liquidity crypto would have if the community wasn't rife with scammers. Although I must admit it's satisfying to watch them drain themselves 😂
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People watching a YouTube tutorial to get rich deserve the scam.
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Glad I didn’t jump on THAT bandwagon.
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ETH is the future and even the scammers know it
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Curious to know what the YouTube video actually had them do 😆 “paste seed phrase here” push, deploy 🤦‍♂️
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dang, that's wild. those scammers really went all out with that one. hope folks learn from this.
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Who owns the failure here? YouTube hosted and amplifiedthe content. Claude helped users build the arbitrage bot that was designed to empty wallets. And 224 people end up getting burned. YT, Claude, or is it still the user’s responsibility?
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I keep telling ppl that AI doesn't "think", it searchs the internet and kind of give you a sum of what it have found or whatever is saved in it's database or whatever but nooooo AI is def a sapient being atp right? lol... imagine buying that hard into propaganda
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Can those account be held accountable for loss and or damages of property?
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lol people been doing this before ai agents. how stupid can you be
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9 fake tutorials doing all that damage is wild, man
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people will really paste any code into their wallet just for a quick buck smh
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Fake tutorials exploiting AI tools show why smart contract verification matters. @DigiMaaya sees security education as essential as crypto adoption expands.
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Deceptive tutorials highlight the need for trusted partners in smart contract audits and education at TOKEN2049.
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more on recent crypto security breaches here: cryptoninjas.net/news/6000-m…

6,000 Monero: Revolut Hackers Set 24-Hour Deadline Over Crypto Data Breach

The hackers behind the Revolut breach have threatened to sell data to other criminal groups if they don't receive the 200 Bitcoins they call for within 24 hours.

cryptoninjas.net
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is there any way to stop this ?
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bruh
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That's pretty smart and neat tbh
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Smarter tools can create smarter scams, but verification should never be replaced by convenience
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Bad code costs real funds.
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I found a cluster in 2023 that did the same, without Claude, and stole $4M
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x.com/Optimist_ig/status/210…
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These AI tutorial scams keep getting more sophisticated.
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Darrrrrrrrrrrr
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@YouTube .i.
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The model was not the exploit. The deploy button was. 224 people did not get hacked by Claude. They pasted a contract from a fake tutorial and signed it. 274 ETH over six months is not “AI crime.” It is the same drain-script play with a new thumbnail. If you cannot read the contract, you are not running a bot. You are the liquidity.
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#Viola soon
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must be api keys from an exchange
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Promado X
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Sep 19
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274 ETH is an expensive lesson. 😬
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Thats a true passive income
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