TechFlow news, December 15 — According to Lianhe Zaobao, Singaporean professional angel investor Mark Koh fell victim to a phishing scam while testing an online game, losing at least 100,000 yuan worth of cryptocurrency assets.
Mark Koh is an early investor in the blockchain platform Polygon and has been involved in the Web3 space since 2017. On December 5, he saw a test post about the gaming project "MetaToy" in a Telegram group. A user named Shanni, claiming to be a "co-founder of the Meta team," contacted him and asked him to download a game launcher.
After downloading, malware stole his crypto wallet data. Despite performing a full system scan and reinstalling the operating system, within 24 hours multiple browser-extension-connected wallets were drained. He suspects scammers used the name of a legitimate game project to plant malware on a fake website.
Notably, Mark Koh is the co-founder of "RektSurvivor," an organization dedicated to helping victims of cryptocurrency scams, yet has now become a victim himself. He reported the incident to the police on the 12th and warned the public not to download software from unknown sources or share recovery phrases and two-factor authentication information.
