Scam repo honey pot sniping

The strategy works by scanning GitHub for new repos that claim to offer Polymarket trading bots. Using static analysis and sandboxing, the bot identifies repos with embedded malicious payloads (e.g., private key exfiltration or malicious approval requests). Once a scam repo is confirmed, the bot creates a honeypot wallet with a small balance, connects to the same trading pools the scammer targets, and uses reverse-engineered fee logic to extract value from the scammer's front-running attempts. In the 2026-08-17 report, three scam repos were flagged and the strategy earned modest profits by trapping the scammers' own MEV transactions. However, legal risk and platform policy violations make this high-risk; three of the five alerts were related to this approach being flagged for review.