2025-12-09 22:46:06

At 2 a.m., my phone suddenly vibrated.

A message from an old follower popped up on the screen, starting with three words: "It's over."

I called, and the voice on the other end was trembling: "Seven figures, all gone. My wife and I were just sitting in front of the computer, didn't do anything, and the money was gone."

My first reaction was a flash crash in the market? But his next words made my scalp tingle—a dense list of dozens of small transfers in the transaction record, all sent to more than a dozen completely unfamiliar addresses.

This wasn’t market volatility—it was a heist.

Call the police? They said "currently can't be classified as a criminal case." Reach out to the project team? The reply was "on-chain transactions are irreversible." Years of savings, just turned into a string of code that can never be recovered.

After eight years in this market, I’ve seen countless people lose money from poor judgment, but cases like this—where the account is intact, the password isn’t leaked, and yet everything gets drained—are almost always due to security awareness issues.

After helping him review, I found four "time bombs" hidden in his phone—these habits basically amount to handing your wallet keys directly to hackers:

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SchrodingersPaper

· 2025-12-12 00:30

Damn, seven figures just gone like that? Bro, this isn't losing money, it's being robbed outright. Fuck, the more I hear about this kind of thing, the more scared I get. No wonder I've been checking my wallet permissions like crazy lately. Really, stop saying "on-chain irreversible" already. Every time I hear it, I want to smash my phone. What timed bomb? Probably some shady authorization or malicious contract trick, one-click drain, right? Eight years in the game and still getting wiped out like this, it just shows there's no absolute security in crypto; it's all about luck. Security awareness? Joke. Who in this circle truly has security awareness? Everyone only learns after they've been scammed once.

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BearMarketLightning

· 2025-12-11 12:46

That's why I've always said mobile security is more important than anything else. Many people really just underestimate it. If your password isn't leaked, you still might lose money—how outrageous is that... What's going on? Seven digits gone just like that? Brother, you must have a really strong mindset. The key is, the police also say it's not considered a criminal case. This move is really incredible. Every time I want to remind people to be careful, but someone still falls for it. It's heartbreaking. Phones, you know, must be treated as if your life depends on them.

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InscriptionGriller

· 2025-12-10 08:11

Dude, this is a typical "lying gun" style of being cut. The account password is fine but can be hollowed out, to put it bluntly, the security habits are rotten at home. --- The seven-figure number disappeared overnight, and the police said "it does not constitute a criminal"? Laugh to death, I've heard this rhetoric too many times. --- After ten years of hard work, what I fear most is this kind of person - who thinks he knows how to do it, but actually treats key management as a fart. --- What else do you want when the time bomb is buried in your phone, just wait to be emptied. --- Forget about the phrase irreversible on the chain, what should really be said is "you are too reversible" - reverse experience points. --- If you don't do it, it's gone, how outrageous is this to believe? Nine times out of ten, a certain link is missed. --- This virtue in the currency circle is either pitted by the project party or by its own "cleverness". There is no third way. --- I see, this guy almost wrote the private key on sticky note paper and pasted it in front of the computer. --- It's amazing to have to pass the police level after being looted. The nightmare configuration of people in the currency circle. --- The textbook-level overturning scene of the eight-year-old leek, everyone remembers it.

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BrokenYield

· 2025-12-09 23:15

ngl, this is what happens when ppl treat crypto like a savings account instead of learning basic op sec. seven figures gone because they couldn't be bothered? that's not a market failure, that's a skill issue fr fr.

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GasFeeTherapist

· 2025-12-09 23:15

Damn, this is exactly why I keep saying don’t fucking connect to those wild dapps so casually... Seven figures, gone just like that. That’s gotta hurt so much.

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CommunitySlacker

· 2025-12-09 23:13

Honestly, I've heard about these things so much that I'm sick of it... it's always junk apps installed on the phone, or phishing links... Eight years of experience and still fell for it, really lacking in awareness.

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0xTherapist

· 2025-12-09 23:10

Damn, seven figures just gone like that. How careless do you have to be? I've seen too many cases of "bombs" planted in phones—it's really impossible to defend against them all. That's why I always advise everyone to use cold wallets. Whether you listen or not is up to you. I'm tired of hearing the police say the same thing: "On-chain transactions are irreversible, you just have to accept your loss." What a load of crap. If your password wasn't leaked and your wallet still got drained, the story behind that is what's truly scary. I just want to ask, did this guy install some weird plugin or something? What exactly is a time bomb? Tell us so I can be on guard against it, too.

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MemeCurator

· 2025-12-09 23:00

Damn... This is why I never install wallet apps on my phone. Did the money really disappear without doing anything? How is that possible... Oh wait, must have installed some sketchy app. Seven figures, bro, that must hurt so much. The password wasn't leaked and the account is intact, but still got drained? That's just ridiculous, how careless can you be? It's been 8 years and still falling for this kind of trap, I really don't know what to say.

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