Florida man allegedly traded Steam games for Uber Eats — using victims' crypto 🍔

Federal agents have arrested a 21-year-old North Lauderdale man accused of helping distribute crypto-stealing malware through video games, a scheme that infected thousands of devices and siphoned roughly $220,000 from victims' wallets. Zyaire Dontaevious Zamarion Wilkins was taken into custody Tuesday and charged with conspiracy to obtain information by computer for private financial gain, a count carrying up to ten years in prison, according to a 15-page federal complaint first reported by WPLG Local 10 and being prosecuted in the Western District of Washington.

Between May 2024 and February 2026, Wilkins and unnamed co-conspirators allegedly uploaded eight malware-laced games, including PirateFi, BlockBlasters, Dashverse and Lunara, infecting about 8,000 devices and gaining access to roughly 80 crypto wallets. The games were promoted on Discord, Telegram, X and LinkedIn, with bots used to identify users with large holdings and steer them toward downloads, the complaint states. Once installed, the malware harvested login credentials and private data that the group combed through for access to victims' crypto accounts.

Investigators say Wilkins operated under the handle "Sibel.eth," coordinating with an unidentified "primary developer" over Signal and discussing "draining campaigns" designed to trick victims into approving wallet transactions that emptied their funds. He allegedly purchased a remote access trojan for $10,000. Agents said they traced Bitcoin from the scheme's wallet to Bitrefill, where more than 150 gift cards — mostly for Uber Eats — were purchased, and a subpoena to Uber linked that account to deliveries at Wilkins' home and his University of West Florida addresses.

When agents searched Wilkins' residence the previous week, he declined to speak and they seized multiple devices and three wallet seed phrases, including one for Monero, described in the complaint as "frequently used by criminals" because it is hard to trace. A review of his crypto history showed roughly $382,000 moving through associated wallets.

The complaint does not name the platform, referring only to a "popular digital distribution software company," but the case is being prosecuted in Seattle, near the Bellevue, Washington headquarters of Steam owner Valve. The arrest appears to be the first tied to an FBI Seattle field office investigation that went public in March, when agents asked gamers hit by malicious Steam titles to come forward after games including PirateFi — which drew around 7,000 players as a free survival title — were removed from the store.