Challenge Description
Frank Vitalik is a hustler, can you figure out where the money flows?
SOLUTION
We got a name Frank Vitalik
from the challenge description.
I have used Google Dorking
, To search his details (profile, discussion, and mentioned name). The query I have used is
intext:Frank Vitalik site:facebook.com OR site: reddit.com OR site:twitter.com OR site:instagram.com OR site:linkedin.com
Depth Search
- From the First two links, we get into two reddit conversation. In the first one it is mentioned about
ETH crypto scam
and a link.
We get a conversation in the given address about a scam.
- On the second link of the google dorking, we get into another reddit conversation, with another
link
in it.
Which lead us into a webpage mentioning Super Ethereum SCAM Giveaway
and a ETH address
In the comment it is mentioned about ropsten
.
While searching for ropsten
in google search.
The first link goes for https://ropsten.etherscan.io
. After opening the link I have searched for the ETH address 0x1b3247Cd0A59ac8B37A922804D150556dB837699
We have to deal with outbound transactions.
While searching for the outbound transactions in the list. The oldest outbound transaction I found was 0xe1320c23f292e52090e423e5cdb7b4b10d3c70a8d1b947dff25ae892609f2ef4
We got the details of the transactions and a comment in it, while clicking on the transaction address.
Click on the View input as
and click on UTF-8
.
Yes!!! We have our flag.
This is how, I solved this challenge.
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