Decompile YouTube Crypto Scams
You’ve probably seen videos with titles like “Making A Bot $3800/Day with ChatGPT | Simple Copy-Paste Method,” where someone excitedly claims you can get rich in a day. Sounds like a scam, right? That’s because it is a scam. There are plenty of articles about these scams, but now I’ll show you how they actually work behind the scenes.
First, you need to copy a contract from the description into the Remix IDE, compile it, and deploy it. I won’t link any of them here because they’ll likely be removed due to being scams, and I don’t want to provide dead links. The next step is to top up the contract with some Ether and run the start function. That’s where the fun begins.
I’ve trimmed the code to show only the relevant parts and reordered the functions so we can see the sections related to the address:
The fetchMempoolData function calls the other functions and "silently" builds the address. After that, the startExploration function performs some operations, which aren’t relevant, but it returns the address. The next line type-asserts the address as payable, because only the payable type has a transfer function on the address.
