Topic: Whale wallet grabbed my fantom (Read 91 times)

The whale wallet you see is of an exchange, mostly like of crypto.com or Binance, as it has had lots of interactions with other similar wallets from both exchanges according to the blockchain explorer.

It's a common practice for exchanges to move funds from your deposits address to their hot or cold wallet. It happens all the time.

Just talk to the crypto.com support about your uncredited account

Contact their support. Tell them you have made a deposit which hasn't been credited to your account.


That's normal.
As I already said, your tokens have been sent to the exchange wallet. As you see on ftmscan, your previous deposits have been moved to the same address too.


The address is owned by an exchange and that's completely normal.

I sent it to the correct address and if you click on the links in my original post you can see on the block explorer that I did send to the right wallet address, there are other transactions listed in my wallet where the day before I successfully transferred FTM into that wallet.  You can also see that 8 minutes after my transfer in, the same amount of the transfer goes out to a different wallet address.  You can look at that wallet's contents on Debank (just like you can look at any wallet if you have its address) and it holds 2.4B in funds of all sorts of coins.  I'm just wondering if anyone knows how this happens.

I haven't ever used crypto.com exchange. But assuming you have sent the tokens to the correct address, the address your token were moved to should be crypto.com hot wallet address.
It's normal that the tokens/coins are moved to the exchange's hot wallet address after you make a deposit.

If you have sent the tokens to the correct address, you should see the balance in your account. If the balance hasn't been credited, the only thing you can do is to contact their support and ask them to credit your balance.


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So I've been transferring Fantom out of my Metamask wallet to a crypto.com wallet that I used initially to onboard capital.  I have been getting some yield by staking Fantom with other altcoins and as I got the rewards I wanted to just convert into Bitcoin and Ethereum.  I found it hard to convert fantom into bitcoin without using a centralized exchange or I would get some wrapped version of Bitcoin.  I guess my motivations for sending back to a CEX are irrelevant.  I have done several of these transactions over the last few weeks with no problem.  Today I sent 40 fantom (inconsequential amount) to crypto.com wallet and noticed on the app on my phone that it never showed up.  I looked up the transactions on the block explorer and it showed that it did go to my crypto.com wallet but then 8 minutes later was transferred out to another wallet I didn't recognize.  I looked that wallet up and it is some whale wallet with like $2.5 billion in crypto and has dozens of small fantom transfers on the block explorer today.  I just googled the wallet address with the term "fraud" and it led me to this blog which I've never visited before but this wallet was accused a few months ago as being part of someone's BNB being stolen.

I have screen shot pictures to show I'm not making this up, but I haven't figured out how to upload them to this blog.

I'm not sure how to respond.  I'm not really worried about recovering the 40 fantom.  I've moved all my other crypto assets out of the crypto.com wallet because that is the place from which it was taken.  Should I also ditch my metamask wallet and start over?

The wallet address is: 0x72a53cdbbcc1b9efa39c834a540550e23463aacb (this is where it ended up)

This is my crypto.com wallet on block explorer which shows last two transactions of me moving it into crypto.com and then it moving out: https://ftmscan.com/address/0x76892f22af277b103313935532955877913262d1

Transaction hash on FTM scan where he took it out of crypto.com wallet: https://ftmscan.com/tx/0x61fb877ed583599f56677ea63de59d34f5a37d8e5e15fc4bf397c91ddcf69407
Transaction on ftm scan where I moved from metamask to crypto.com wallet: https://ftmscan.com/tx/0xca229abd38ed7d282943aa0a7cd47be1ddb221393d8e47d79e1e542e81778544

Anyone ever seen this before?  Report it to crypto.com?

Any feedback appreciated.  Its a small amount of money so I'm not worried about recovery but I want to discover the vulnerability and fix it.