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[examples] second sweep pass: 2 more July incidents + un-stale the Genesis case (664 -> 666)
The first pass was exploit-shaped and missed the neighbouring categories. Going
back over end-of-month, non-exploit events, and corpus freshness turned up three
things.
- Solido Cash (2026-07-23, ~293.7M SUPRA / ~$900K) - T9.001 in a stale-feed
fallback shape. An oracle misassignment on SOLID (backstop collateral) meant a
stale feed tripped fallback logic that priced it far above market; 809,052
CASH minted against the inflated collateral and sold. Two waves: an atomic
transaction at 18:21:35 UTC, then a manual repeat across five wallets hours
later - the gap between them was an unused detect-and-halt window. ~90% of the
loss fell on the Solido Foundation, ~84% of proceeds traced to CEX
infrastructure. Second SUPRA-adjacent oracle case this month after Bonzo Lend,
and the entry says explicitly that they are NOT the same defect or component:
Bonzo consumed Supra's verifier, Solido misconfigured its own feed. What they
share is the missing deviation bound on the consuming mint path.
- DPRK state-bank diversion (arrest 2026-07-12, reported 07-25) - T7.010 +
T8.005, recorded at inferred-weak with a structural caveat header. Former
military operators reportedly diverted Central Bank / Foreign Trade Bank funds
into overseas crypto wallets and structured them out through Chinese brokers
in Sinuiju and Hyesan. The whole account is Daily NK citing one anonymous
Pyongyang source and is explicitly not independently verified - it is in the
corpus because the shape (a national operator cohort stealing from its own
state, caught by that state's internal controls) exists nowhere else in OAK,
not because it is established. The intrusion leg is deliberately left unmapped
per the Brazil central-bank precedent: "breached" with no vector is not a
Technique. The T7.010 assignment is what distinguishes it from Brazil - there
the crypto leg was an on-ramp purchase (no T7 primitive runs that direction),
here it is a structured off-ramp of proceeds already on-chain.
- 2024-08 Genesis creditor: the file had gone ~12 months stale on the legal axis.
It still read "Wiz and Box at large". Since then the prosecution was recast as
a RICO racketeering conspiracy; a Second Superseding Indictment (2025-12-08)
added Dellecave, Ibrahim and Zulfiqar; twelve are charged with nine guilty
pleas including Chetal; Evan Tangeman pleaded guilty to laundering >=$3.5M.
DOJ now quantifies the theft as 4,100+ BTC - $263M in Aug 2024, >$368M by Dec
2025. Loss line now reconciles all three circulating figures ($230M charged /
~$243M at-theft market price / $263M DOJ) as BTC price movement rather than a
disputed quantity. Also records the DOJ's "residential burglars targeting
hardware virtual currency wallets" language, which is the T5.009 adjacency.
Checked and deliberately not added: the $263M/12-defendant DOJ action is dated
2025-12-08, not July 2026 (one outlet misdated it); CertiK's H1 wrench-attack
figures (52 incidents, $124.18M, 20 home invasions) are a report published
2026-07-23, not an incident; the DOJ's $25M civil forfeitures (2026-07-21) name
no defendant. WEMIX Feb 2025 remains an open backfill - flagged, not written.
Validators clean: citations, linkage, backlinks (0/0), tags, detect_ai_tells,
markdownlint (CI-pinned 0.13.0, 0 errors).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Genesis Creditor — Multi-Stage Impersonation Social Engineering — 2024-08-19
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**Loss:**~$243M in BTC, ETH, and other crypto assets from a single Genesis Global Capital creditor.
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**Loss:**~\$243M in BTC, ETH, and other crypto assets from a single Genesis Global Capital creditor. Three figures circulate and each is correct for what it measures: **\$230M+** is the amount charged in the original 2024 indictment; **~\$243M** is the market-price valuation of the assets at the moment of theft; and **\$263M** is the DOJ's figure as of the 2025-12-08 RICO announcement, stated as **over 4,100 BTC** and worth **more than \$368M** by that date. The spread is BTC price movement, not a disputed quantity.
**Attribution:****confirmed** — three threat actors: Malone Lam ("Greavys"; rendered "Malone Iam" in ZachXBT's original thread — a capital-I/lowercase-l transcription error. Full name Malone Lam Yu Xuan; the DOJ record and all subsequent reporting use **Lam**), Veer Chetal ("Wiz"), and Jeandiel Serrano ("Box"). Malone arrested in Miami (Sep 2024); Wiz and Box at large as of investigation date. A fourth associate, Aakaash ("Light/Dark"), assisted with laundering.
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**Attribution:** **confirmed** — originally three named threat actors: Malone Lam ("Greavys"; rendered "Malone Iam" in ZachXBT's original thread — a capital-I/lowercase-l transcription error. Full name Malone Lam Yu Xuan; the DOJ record and all subsequent reporting use **Lam**), Veer Chetal ("Wiz"), and Jeandiel Serrano ("Box"). Malone arrested in Miami (Sep 2024); Wiz and Box at large as of ZachXBT's investigation date. A fourth associate, Aakaash ("Light/Dark"), assisted with laundering. **The case has since expanded far beyond those three.** By the DOJ's announcement of **2025-12-08**, the prosecution had been recast as a **RICO racketeering conspiracy**, **twelve** individuals stood charged, and **nine had entered guilty pleas** — including **Veer Chetal**. A **Second Superseding Indictment** added **Nicholas Dellecave** ("Nic", "Souja"; arrested Miami 2025-12-03), **Mustafa Ibrahim** ("Krust"; arrested in Dubai), and **Danish Zulfiqar** ("Danny", "Meech"; arrested in Dubai). Separately, **Evan Tangeman** (Newport Beach, CA) pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy, admitting he laundered **at least \$3.5M** for the enterprise, with sentencing set for **2026-04-24**.
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**Key teaching point:** This is the largest known social engineering theft against a single individual in crypto history. The attack demonstrates the **multi-stage impersonation escalation** pattern: the attackers chained spoofed calls (Google Support → Gemini Support), each stage extracting credentials or authorizations that enabled the next. The victim was a sophisticated institutional creditor, not a retail user. The laundering used 15+ exchanges with rapid cross-asset swapping (BTC→LTC→ETH→XMR) to break traceability.
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| 2024-08-19~Sep | Laundering: funds split three ways, swapped BTC→LTC→ETH→XMR via 15+ exchanges, eXch, THORSwap |**T7 laundering**|
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| 2024-09 | Malone Lam (Greavys) arrested in Miami by FBI. Wiz (Veer Chetal) and Box (Jeandiel Serrano) remain at large | (legal action) |
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| 2024-09-19 | ZachXBT publishes full investigation with on-chain tracing of all three principals | (public disclosure) |
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| 2024-11 | Veer Chetal ("Wiz") secretly charged; later pleads guilty and forfeits ~30 designer watches, clothing, and \$36M+ in ETH; loses bond after a further ~\$2M crypto theft while awaiting sentencing | (legal action) |
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| 2025-12-03 | Nicholas Dellecave ("Nic", "Souja") arrested in Miami | (legal action) |
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| 2025-12-08 | DOJ announces a **Second Superseding Indictment** charging Dellecave, Mustafa Ibrahim ("Krust", arrested Dubai) and Danish Zulfiqar ("Danny", "Meech", arrested Dubai) with **RICO conspiracy**, bringing the total charged to **twelve**, of whom **nine have pleaded guilty**. Same announcement: **Evan Tangeman** pleads guilty to RICO conspiracy, admitting he laundered ≥\$3.5M for the enterprise (sentencing 2026-04-24). DOJ states the theft totalled **over 4,100 BTC**, worth **\$263M in August 2024** and **>\$368M** by the announcement date | (legal action) |
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-[ZachXBT — Investigation Thread (X/Twitter)](https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1836752923830702392) — 14-part investigation with on-chain tracing of all three principals.
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-[DOJ / U.S. Attorney D.C. — "Indictment Charges Two in \$230 Million Cryptocurrency Scam"](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indictment-charges-two-230-million-cryptocurrency-scam) — the charging document. Malone Lam (20, Miami / Los Angeles; also used "Anne Hathaway" and "\$\$\$") and Jeandiel Serrano (21, Los Angeles; "VersaceGod", @Skidstar) charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over \$230M from a victim in **Washington, D.C.** The charged figure (\$230M+) and the market-price valuation at theft (~\$243M) differ; both are correct for what they measure.
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-[Wikipedia — Malone Lam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malone_Lam) — biographical detail: Malone Lam Yu Xuan, born 2004-07-19, Singaporean, raised in Choa Chu Kang, attended Unity Secondary School, dropped out as a teenager. Co-founded the "Social Engineering Enterprise" with roommates in Texas; the network reached ~14 members across several states, working from hacked databases, dark-web data and phishing mail. Arrested by the FBI in Miami on 2024-09-18 after an off-duty police officer tipped him off; he threw his phone into Biscayne Bay en route. Proceeds spent on ~33 luxury cars, jewellery, travel and nightclubs.
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- [DOJ / U.S. Attorney D.C. — "Guilty Plea and Superseding Indictment Announced in Social Engineering Scheme that Stole \$263 Million in Cryptocurrency" (2025-12-08)](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/guilty-plea-and-superseding-indictment-announced-social-engineering-scheme-stole-263) — the case's recasting as a **RICO racketeering conspiracy**. Evan Tangeman (Newport Beach, CA) pleads guilty, admitting he laundered ≥\$3.5M for the enterprise (sentencing 2026-04-24). The Second Superseding Indictment charges Nicholas Dellecave ("Nic", "Souja"; arrested Miami 2025-12-03), Mustafa Ibrahim ("Krust"; arrested Dubai) and Danish Zulfiqar ("Danny", "Meech"; arrested Dubai), bringing the total charged to **twelve**, with **nine guilty pleas** entered. Quantifies the theft as **over 4,100 BTC**, worth **\$263M in August 2024** and **>\$368M** as of the announcement. Also references **"residential burglars targeting hardware virtual currency wallets"** as a component of the enterprise — the physical-coercion adjacency that connects this case to OAK-T5.009. (Mirrored by IRS Criminal Investigation at <https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/guilty-plea-and-superseding-indictment-announced-in-social-engineering-scheme-that-stole-263-million-in-cryptocurrency>, which is fetchable where justice.gov returns 403.)
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-[The Block — Chetal bond revocation](https://www.theblock.co/post/359078/teen-in-245m-bitcoin-heist-loses-bond-after-new-2m-crypto-theft-unsealed-court-docs-show) — Veer Chetal ("Wiz") was a **teenager** at the time of the theft; secretly charged 2024-11; pleaded guilty; forfeited ~30 designer watches, clothing, and \$36M+ in ETH. Lost bond after committing a further ~\$2M crypto theft while awaiting sentencing.
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