![]() The local reporter called the number connected with the company registered in Guangdong, but the person who answered denied everything. This was enough proof for McGregor that he was on the right track but was worried about his safety. A security guard revealed that the police had come to the apartment in connection with the scam about six months before. Unfortunately, as they arrived at the location, they found no one. The investigators decided to go to Hong Kong to try and get face-to-face with the scammer. Narrowing down the address to the specific office block, McGregor decided to invite a local reporter to join in on the investigation, upon which she scoped out the building where the connected company was registered, discovering the movements and a potential address of the suspect in Hong Kong. The recipient immediately opened the email, revealing a location in Hong Kong with 86% certainty.Īt the same time, the suspect’s name was connected to the technology company established in April 2021 in Guangdong province in South China, the application for the dissolution of which was filed only six days after the investigators sent the phishing email to the rug pull scam suspect. Trying to draw more information, the investigators sent a message to one of the email addresses that came up with a name. Among the information handed over by the domain name company, more clues appeared, including two email addresses, an IP address, two telephone numbers, an actual physical address, and even a name.įurther investigation connected this person with scams dating back to 2013. To carry out this fraud, the scammer used a domain name company that had no idea its services were being used for these purposes. Meanwhile, a Reddit profile, created four days before the rug pull and still active ten days after it, was urging the victims of the rug pull to join the supposed legal action advertised on the website. In the meantime, an alleged legal firm was charging people money through their website, promising to sue the Squid scammers but disappearing with their money, indicating that those scammers could be the same as the rug pull people. Later on, McGregor and O’Connor learned that the Squid Scam authors had carried out a smaller, almost identical, scam a few weeks earlier to ‘test the waters’ leading to more clues. In the podcast, McGregor revealed that a discussion in a victims’ Telegram chatroom had given him the first suspects in the case, as he received a video of the rug pull supposedly happening live on a computer monitor, watermarked with what appears to be the name of one of the suspects, accompanied by a message:Ĭhecking the metadata, O’Connor confirmed that the video was genuine, recorded indeed at the time the rug pull was taking place.
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