A professional angel investor in Singapore fell victim to a phishing scam, losing 100,000 yuan in cryptocurrency

According to Lianhe Zaobao, Singaporean angel investor Mark Koh encountered a phishing scam while testing an online game, resulting in a loss of at least 100,000 yuan in cryptocurrency assets.

Mark Koh is an early investor in the blockchain platform Polygon and has been paying attention to the Web3 space since 2017. On December 5, he saw a testing post for the game project "MetaToy" in a Telegram group, where a user claiming to be "co-founder of the Meta team," Shanni, contacted him and requested him to download the game launcher.

After downloading, malware stole his cryptocurrency wallet data. Although Mark Koh performed a full system scan and reinstalled the system, multiple electronic wallets connected to browser extensions were still emptied 24 hours later. He suspects that the scammers used the name of a real game project to implant malware on a fake website.

It is reported that Mark Koh is a co-founder of the organization "RektSurvivor," which specifically assists cryptocurrency victims, but he has now become a victim himself. He reported the incident to the police on the 12th and warned the public not to download software from unknown sources and to avoid sharing mnemonic phrases and two-factor authentication information.