Fake AI Bot Tutorials Led 224 Victims to Deploy Their Own Drainers

This case matters less for its size than for its inversion of the usual scam model: victims became the deployers, not just the duped, which pushes the on-chain footprint onto their own addresses and makes tracing, freezing or clawing back funds materially harder. It also shows how AI-themed content has become a credible lure for users already primed to experiment with automated trading tools. Whether TRM's operator-address tracing translates into any recovery, and whether wallet and platform interfaces start flagging self-deployed drainer contracts, is the open question.