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A DeFi trader lost a mid-six-figure portfolio in a single transaction after clicking a fake Uniswap Google ad tied to drainer Angelferno. Google faces backlash. A DeFi trader operating under the handle @ika_xbt on X lost an entire mid-six-figure portfolio in a single transaction. One click. Gone. The drain link traced back to an operator known as Angelferno. A fake Uniswap ad ran on Google. The trader clicked it, signed a transaction, and lost everything in seconds. “Six figures. Gone. A drain link by the infamous Angelferno,” the trader wrote on X. Two Ledger hardware wallets. Two years of discipline. Wiped in one move. The portfolio had survived the bear market. It had survived multiple market collapses. But it did not survive a malicious Google ad. Must Read: Trust Wallet Security Hack: How to Safeguard Your Assets Google Took the Money Too, Just Not the Way You Think On-chain analyst ZachXBT flagged the situation on X, calling for accountability at the executive level. Google executives should face criminal liability, he argued, for the volume of theft these ads have made possible. Multi-nine-figure losses tied directly to Google Ads phishing scams, he said. Not a rounding error. The mechanics are straightforward and brutal. Fraudsters buy Google Ad slots for searches like “Uniswap” or “DeFi swap.” Their fake site ranks above the real one. The user connects their wallet. A drain script empties it. DeFiLlama developer 0xngmi called it out directly on X, noting years of building tools to prevent exactly this kind of loss. Five different products. None of them is enough. He pointed users toward http://search.defillama.com as a safer way to reach legitimate DeFi links without relying on Google search results. “I’ve spent years trying to stop these losses,” 0xngmi wrote on X. The scale of the problem has outpaced…

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