BuccaneerFi ($352,500)
The scam artists behind Buccaneer Finance, also known as BuccaneerFi, made off with about 841 BNB coin, based on wallet monitoring conducted by Peck Shield, worth about $352,500.
And while the project’s Twitter, Telegram, and website have all been deleted, you can still see an archived version of its website at the Internet Archive.
“Buccaneer Finance is based on a [sic] open sourced and well audited contract,” the website read. So much for that, right?
But the best quote from the website might be the ludicrous claim that Buccaneer’s coin was completely tax free, something that can only be decided by a government.
“The team decided to develop Buccanner Finance into a tax-free product. The best product is a zero-tax product, we don’t want high taxes to be a burden for investors,” the website said.
The scammers sent their ill-gotten gains to TornadoCash, one of the services used to launder cryptocurrencies so that it’s harder to track where the stolen money goes. And while $300,000 isn’t much compared with many of the other hacks that have happened this month, it might easier for a lower-profile theft to get lost in the noise of terrible crypto headlines.
