揭露令人髮指的騙局：專案方僱用了一群巨魔冒充名人並出售加密貨幣

原文作者： 瑞安·格拉德溫 , 解密

原文翻譯：Felix，PANews

一家營養補充劑公司據稱僱用了一群網路噴子冒充名人、欺騙投資者並出售其代幣。該計劃曾經一度奏效，但後來就被瓦解了。

Insane Labz, an Arkansas-based supplement company with a strong reputation in the MMA and Barstool Sports worlds and a former client of Gary Vaynerchuk’s entrepreneurial mentoring program, launched its LABZ token in May, and in its roadmap, the project promised to work with “vetted celebrities.” But the project encouraged trolls to impersonate celebrities, such as UFC president Dana White, MMA legend Nate Diaz, and social media personality Hasbulla, and tout LABZ tokens in the project’s Telegram group.

The scam helped the LABZ token’s market value soar from $3 million to $15 million at its peak. The token is now nearly worthless, down more than 90%, but not before these obvious scams tricked some less savvy investors into buying in.

Decrypt 和區塊鏈分析公司 Bubblemaps 審查的區塊鏈數據顯示，與 Insane Labz 團隊相關的加密錢包向 Solana 的巨魔支付了每人 $155 的小筆費用。

“We were just trying to do it as a joke but it got a little out of hand,” one of the impersonators said.

“Hasbulla” enters the chat, and some investors question whether it is really Hasbulla

哈斯布拉加入聊天

On May 16, the first fake celebrity, “TheOfficialHasbulla,” joined the Insane Labz Telegram chatroom. The account appeared to belong to Hasbulla Magomedovich Magomedov, an influencer with dwarfism who has 8 million followers on Instagram. The real Magomedov doesn’t speak English, so the fake influencer was able to communicate using Google Translate and GIFs.

Still, some users in the chat questioned whether he was real. The administrator of the Insane Labz Telegram group was vague. “Maybe he is real,” Insane Labz replied in the Telegram group.

用戶立即做出回應。

Insane Labz 代幣在 12 小時內上漲了 115%。當時，與該公司相關的錢包尚未向假冒的 Hasbulla 付款。在此期間，與 Insane Labz 相關的兩個錢包出售了價值約 $12,450 的 LABZ 代幣，同時也購買了更多代幣。

LABZ-linked wallets sold under the name “Hasbulla” hype the project

The largest single sale of LABZ occurred three days later on May 19, when the token’s price, though past its peak, was still high. An unidentified whale dumped over $70,000 worth of tokens, making a profit of about $68,000 after buying LABZ on the day of the token launch.

這位哈斯布拉的模仿者表示，他的朋友們在接下來的兩週內加入了該組織：一位假終極格鬥冠軍賽(UFC) 主席達納·懷特(Dana White) 和一位假UFC拳擊手內特·迪亞茲(Nate Diaz)。

Nate Diaz, the impersonator, explained that the fake Hasbulla often joined groups pretending to be a famous Dagestani. “Then when we saw Insane Labz’s crazy reaction to Hasbulla joining the chat, we wanted to switch things up and jump in on the joke,” he said.

當假內特迪亞茲在聊天中說話時，粉絲們都很喜歡

“Hasbulla has no knowledge of this company or its tokens,” said Justin Ozuna, Hasbulla’s business manager, who helped Hasbulla secure a five-year promotional contract with the UFC. “I highly doubt the same is true for Dana White and Nate Diaz.”

Another LABZ token investor said the project not only encourages impersonators, but also “strongly promotes this joke.” Insane Labz “created LABZ token memes with celebrities’ faces and hyped them up whenever a celebrity posted something in the chat.” Insane Labz CEO Dustin Lebleu even pretended to have a FaceTime chat with the real Dana White about the project.

“The token founder posted a FaceTime chat he had with ‘Dana White’, asking ‘Dana’ if she had a screenshot of the chat.” Members of the Telegram chatroom, which included some impersonators and individual investors, said they believed Dustin Lebleu was managing the account.

“He later posted what I believe was a doctored photo of a FaceTime chat,” the investor said, providing screenshots of photos from the Insane Labz Telegram group.

根據 Insane Labz 帳戶，Dana White 與 LABZ 團隊進行了 FaceTime 通話

5 月 28 日，假冒 Dana White 告訴官方 Insane Labz Telegram 群組，他計劃贈送四張即將舉行的 UFC 賽事門票。 Insane Labz 團隊也緊跟潮流，在 Twitter 上宣傳了贈品活動。 LABZ 代幣因此飆升了 17%，就在此時，Labz 團隊聯繫了假 White，並表示願意付費繼續詐騙。

The impersonator claimed that the official Insane Labz account contacted the fake Dana White and offered to pay the “villain” and his friends to continue messaging them in the Telegram chat. Eventually, they reached an agreement to pay 1 Solana (about $155) per week.

數據公司 Bubblemaps 發現向冒名頂替者發送 1 SOL ($150) 的支付錢包之一與最初鑄造 LABZ 代幣的錢包之間存在聯繫。錢包 DvFne 1 向錢包 CLrC 8 m 發送了 150 SOL ($24,000)，隨後錢包向冒名頂替者支付了總計 3 SOL ($459)。最初的 DvFne 1 錢包也為鑄造 LABZ 代幣的地址 FtfPXX 提供資金。

“We can assume that the central wallet (DvFne 1) is a team wallet, as it is the first wallet to fund FtfPXX, which is the minting wallet,” said Thomas Perrin, lead investigator at Bubblemaps. “Thus, the payment wallet is closely related to the team wallet.”

Thomas Perrin also claimed that the payment method (i.e. sending funds through multiple different wallets) was suspicious. “Why not use a wallet with a marketing label?”

顯示支付錢包如何與鑄幣地址關聯的氣泡圖

我們還查看了冒充者提供的 Telegram 螢幕截圖，他們稱這些螢幕截圖顯示 Labz 團隊在付款時協調付款並提供付款交易連結。

整件事都是騙局

Over the next month, a total of 15 SOL were sent to the impersonators’ wallets, who claimed they were sent by Insane Labz. Meanwhile, LABZ token investors were misled into believing the celebrity endorsement was real.

An Insane Labz investor: “I realized the whole thing was a fraud.”

Conversations between the impersonators and Insane Labz make it clear that the project actively encourages this type of deception. In another Telegram group called “Labz UFC Hype Group,” the operator of the Insane Labz account joked with the fake celebrities, according to screenshots provided by the impersonators.

假內特迪亞茲在私訊中寫道：我以為真正的內特現在會生氣哈哈。 Labz帳號回覆：哈哈哈哈你才是真正的Nate…

最明顯的模仿者是哈斯布拉，他不會說英語，但模仿者在聊天中說得很流利。螢幕截圖顯示，Hasbulla 模仿者曾一度表示，他將嘗試找到 Hasbullas 文字轉語音人工智慧來創建語音筆記。

Labz 帳號回應：那太噁心了。

假 Hasbulla 考慮使用人工智慧

這些假名人表示，他們的 Telegram 收件匣裡充斥著數百則來自粉絲的訊息和電話，他們想要證明他們的真實性。

“I discovered the whole thing was a fraud and the founders knew full well that these people weren’t the real Dana White et al and were using their celebrity status to inflate the token price,” said one LABZ token investor. “I sold my tokens at that time and left the group.”

LABZ 代幣投資者定期向這些巨魔發送訊息，詢問他們是否真實

真相大白

最終，炒作逐漸平息，代幣價格下跌。作為回應，模仿者聲稱 Labz 團隊詢問他們是否可以添加 Nickelback 主唱 Chad Kroeger。他們同意了。

6 月 27 日添加假 Kroeger 帳戶後，代幣飆升 17%。但這是短暫的。該代幣在接下來的兩週內下跌了 74%。這位假明星和 Insane Labz 之間的通訊開始中斷。

當有人加入 Labz 群組聊天並向 Dana White 發送訊息後，Insane Labz 團隊指示這位假名人停止說話。當天晚上，Telegram 聊天記錄被刪除。 Insane Labz 在其官方 X 帳戶上聲稱，該群組已被刪除，因為他們收到了死亡威脅。

現在一切都結束了，惡作劇者們表示他們對冒充名人毫不猶豫。

“I’ve been using this nickname for years and have been in hundreds of Telegram groups — no one has ever played tricks on me like this,” the fake Hasbulla said. “Anyone with a brain can tell that this is just a Telegram nickname.”

在進軍加密貨幣之前，總部位於阿肯色州的 Insane Labz 成立於 2014 年，以其運動粉而聞名。其產品在亞馬遜和沃爾瑪等線上零售商處銷售，根據 Zoominfo 數據，該公司每年產生約 1TP10-1520 萬收入。

The company’s founder and CEO, Dustin Lebleu, is a client of VaynorMentors, a startup consulting services firm run by renowned entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, better known as Gary Vee.

加里·維納查克 (Gary Vaynerchuk) 在 2019 年發表的一篇博文中讚揚了達斯汀·勒布魯 (Dustin Lebleu)，但該博文後來被刪除。

Gary Vaynerchuk 的代表表示：Gary 本週與家人外出，但我們可以確認，自 2018 年短暫的諮詢合作關係以來，Gary/VaynerX 和 Insane Labz 之間沒有任何官方關聯或認可。

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