The real scams behind the cases
Crypto scams
Every Chaindoku case replays a real scam or a real on-chain attack. Here is how they work, the sign that should alert you and the reflex that protects you, sorted into 9 families. Each entry links to the case that stages it: read, then solve.
Social engineering
The person is manipulated rather than the machine: trust, urgency, feelings, a fake contact.
- · The fake recruiter
- · SIM swap
- · Fake support
- · The boss deepfake
Keys and seed phrases
Whoever holds the key holds the funds: leaks, copies, poorly shared custody.
- · The exposed seed phrase
- · A seed phrase split into shares
- · All the keys in one hand
- · The bot that wants your key
Rigged signatures, sites and apps
The right logo, the right address at first glance: you sign, scan or install the trap yourself.
- · The hijacked clipboard
- · The trapped signature
- · The look-alike address
- · The copycat software
Fake promises of gains
Guaranteed returns, double your stake, risk-free mining: newcomers' money pays the earlier ones, or nothing does.
- · The fake giveaway
- · The fake exchange
- · A pool that skims block rewards
- · The guaranteed return
Market and token manipulation
Insiders, rumors, pulled liquidity, unsellable tokens: the price is rigged at the expense of the latest buyers.
- · The copycat token
- · The insider who sells at unlock
- · Rug pull and pump and dump
- · Insider trading
DeFi and contracts
Code is law: a price read from the wrong place, badly set delays, transaction order exploited.
- · When an atomic swap goes wrong
- · The leaked sealed bid
- · A gas war during a mint
- · How a stablecoin collapses
Governance, consensus and bridges
Votes, validators, multisigs and bridges: the power to decide or to validate is captured.
- · A booby-trapped governance vote
- · A Sybil attack on an airdrop
- · A deposit erased by a chain reorg
- · When validators cheat
Tracing, laundering and privacy
Follow the money: mixers, mules, ransoms, sanctions, wallets that wake up.
- · The rented account
- · The whale that slipped past the radar
- · When CoinJoin privacy leaks
- · A dormant wallet wakes up
Payments and confirmations
A payment you can see is not a final payment.
- · The payment that never arrived
- · The overpayment