F009

Cryptocurrency asset theft

Technique in the Financial Gain (F000) stage of the SC&MS ABCDEF lifecycle

Version 0.3 · ID stable since publication (March 2026) · Data snapshot: March 8, 2026

Description

A theft of cryptocurrency directly from the victim's wallet or holdings.

Subtechniques

F009.001 Seed phrase theftA theft of a crypto wallet seed phrase to drain all funds.
F009.002 Rug pullA fraudulent token whose creators drain liquidity after victims buy in, rendering the victims' holdings worthless.
F009.003 Wallet drainer contractA malicious smart contract that drains funds when victims connect their crypto wallet.

Tags

theft crypto

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How to cite

Plain text:

Narang, S. S. (2026). Cryptocurrency asset theft (F009), in SC&MS: Scam Classification & Mapping System (Version 0.3). https://scams.dev/techniques/F009/

BibTeX:

@misc{scms03_f009,
  author = {Narang, Satnam Singh},
  title = {{F009 Cryptocurrency asset theft}, in SC\&MS: Scam Classification \& Mapping System},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.3},
  url = {https://scams.dev/techniques/F009/},
  note = {A taxonomy for classifying scam techniques}
}