Who Is Coffeezilla? The YouTube Sleuth Exposing Crypto Scams
In a digital landscape flooded with flashy crypto ads, get-rich-quick schemes, and self-proclaimed “financial gurus,” one man has made it his mission to expose the truth. Meet Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla—a relentless internet sleuth uncovering scams that have siphoned millions.
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- Who Is Coffeezilla? How a Personal Betrayal Turned One Man into the Internet’s Scam Hunter
- The Crypto Scam That Put Coffeezilla on the Map
- SafeMoon: A $17 Billion Promise Too Good to Be True
- FTX: Taking on the Biggest Name in Crypto
- Logan Paul, LIBRA, and What’s Next for Crypto Investigations
- The Man Who Made Crypto Scammers Sweat
A microphone, blockchain expertise, and an ironclad will—these are the tools Coffeezilla has wielded to dismantle some of the largest crypto scams in history. His relentless investigations don’t just expose deception; they force influencers, high-profile celebrities, and billion-dollar corporations to answer for their misdeeds.
But who is the man behind the viral exposés? How did a Texas chemistry graduate turn into the most formidable digital detective of our time? And where does his influence end—if it does at all?
Few have dared to take on the titans of financial fraud, but Coffeezilla has turned YouTube into his battlefield. How did he do it?
Who Is Coffeezilla? How a Personal Betrayal Turned One Man into the Internet’s Scam Hunter
Scammers mess with the wrong people sometimes. Coffeezilla learned that firsthand when his own mother—battling cancer—was tricked into believing in a fake “miracle cure.” She survived, thanks to real medicine, but the damage had been done.
That was his wake-up call. The world is full of crooks preying on the vulnerable.
So, he picked up a microphone and started exposing them.
His YouTube journey began in 2017 with Coffee Break, a channel dedicated to social issues. But as crypto and get-rich-quick schemes flooded the internet, he saw an even greater challenge ahead.
By 2020, Coffeezilla was born—a new identity for an internet sleuth who made it his mission to hunt down scammers, no matter how deep they tried to bury the truth.
While Coffeezilla commands an audience of over 712,000 on YouTube, his activity on X plays a crucial supporting role. His posts tease upcoming investigations, follow up on his biggest exposés, and—most importantly—keep fraudsters on edge.
For years, his work has shaken up the digital finance world.
The Crypto Scam That Put Coffeezilla on the Map
If there’s one case that made Coffeezilla a household name, it’s Save the Kids.
It looked like the perfect blend of crypto and charity—a token designed to funnel money to a good cause, with Binance adding a stamp of legitimacy.
But when the dust settled, all that remained was a well-crafted fraud.
Behind the glossy marketing and influencer endorsements, the Save the Kids (KIDS) token was nothing but a pump-and-dump scheme, backed by well-known figures, including members of FaZe Clan.
As Coffeezilla unraveled the story, he exposed a rigged system disguised as philanthropy. The so-called “charity coin” was a scam from the very start. In a last-minute contract tweak, developers removed the anti-whale mechanism—an essential protection meant to prevent sudden mass sell-offs.
The change allowed insiders to liquidate their holdings immediately, leaving regular investors stranded with worthless tokens.
At the heart of the scandal stood FaZe Kay.
When the revelations hit, the ex-esports pro and influencer swore he had no part in it. But Coffeezilla’s investigation told a different story—one backed by irrefutable evidence. Kay’s name was tied to several crypto wallets, each loaded with questionable transactions.
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Careers collapsed. Reputations burned.
- FaZe Kay got the boot from FaZe Clan.
- Jarvis, Nikan, and Teeqo were sidelined.
- The Save the Kids website disappeared overnight, as if it had never existed.
A single YouTube investigation had done what no one thought possible—bringing down some of the internet’s biggest influencers.
And for Coffeezilla, it was just the start.
SafeMoon: A $17 Billion Promise Too Good to Be True
April 2022. SafeMoon was the hottest ticket in town, a token with a market cap hitting an eye-watering $17 billion. The promise? Just hold, and you’d be rich when SafeMoon rocketed into space.
But when Coffeezilla took a closer look, the dream started to unravel.
Something was seriously wrong.
When Coffeezilla dug into SafeMoon’s blockchain transactions, he found something alarming.
The project’s liquidity pool—the safety net designed to maintain the token’s stability—was being siphoned off in secret. CEO John Karony discreetly funneled assets into a personal wallet known as Gabe (6abe) Wallet, depleting the very funds that were supposed to protect investors.
By March 2021, 36.7 trillion tokens had been extracted from the pool. SafeMoon’s so-called “locked liquidity” was nothing more than a marketing gimmick.
The moment Coffeezilla asked former SafeMoon CTO Thomas “Papa” Smith about the company’s financial misdeeds, the dominoes started to fall. Within days, Smith was stripped of his advisory position at StrikeX.
A few months later, SafeMoon followed suit—crashing hard.
By November 2023, the SEC and DOJ came knocking, charging the company’s leadership with fraud, money laundering, and illegally selling unregistered securities.
And once again, Coffeezilla had been ahead of the game.
FTX: Taking on the Biggest Name in Crypto
In 2022, Coffeezilla escalated his investigations from exposing influencers to challenging the most influential figure in the crypto world—Sam Bankman-Fried.
FTX was a $32 billion behemoth, a pillar of the industry. Until November 2022, when it collapsed in an instant. Billions disappeared. Investors were wiped out.
SBF claimed it was all a mistake.
Coffeezilla knew better.
It was a live reckoning. During a Twitter Spaces interview, Coffeezilla pressed Sam Bankman-Fried on FTX’s collapse. The questions were sharp, the answers shaky. Then, SBF made a fatal admission.
We processed withdrawals as we normally do until we couldn’t anymore… There was a big liquidity hole.
Coffeezilla wasted no time.
That means you were commingling funds from different risk categories. That’s fraud.
It didn’t take long—just days after his disastrous Twitter Spaces interview, SBF was arrested. By March 2024, he was handed a 25-year prison sentence.
Yet again, Coffeezilla had exposed the crime before the regulators caught up.
Logan Paul, LIBRA, and What’s Next for Crypto Investigations
Coffeezilla’s mission goes beyond uncovering fraud—he’s making sure big-name influencers don’t get away with it.
Take CryptoZoo, Logan Paul’s grand NFT experiment. Billed as a game where players could turn digital assets into real money, it instead became a cautionary tale. The project was never completed, and investors were left staring at a pile of worthless tokens.
Logan Paul didn’t take Coffeezilla’s three-part exposé lightly—his first reaction was to threaten a lawsuit. But as the internet turned against him, he had to rethink his strategy.
Under intense scrutiny, Logan swapped legal threats for an apology and pledged to refund those who had lost money. Without Coffeezilla’s intervention, there’s no way that would have happened.
Then, in February 2025, yet another crypto scandal broke loose—this time, LIBRA was at the center of the storm.
This time, Coffeezilla went after Hayden Davis, the orchestrator of a $113 million rug pull.
LIBRA, propped up by a dubious endorsement from Argentina’s president, saw a surge of investments from everyday people desperate for a breakthrough. By day’s end, insiders had cashed out, leaving regular investors to pick up the pieces.
One more spectacular collapse. One more win for Coffeezilla.
The Man Who Made Crypto Scammers Sweat
Once just another YouTuber, Coffeezilla has become a one-man wrecking crew for crypto fraudsters. His investigations have reshaped the industry:
- FaZe Kay got the boot from FaZe Clan.
- SafeMoon’s top executives are now facing legal action.
- Sam Bankman-Fried (FTX) went from billionaire to inmate.
- Logan Paul was forced to return money to CryptoZoo investors.
Even The Washington Post had to admit it—Coffeezilla is “one of the most powerful independent voices in cryptocurrency journalism.”
Yet scammers don’t quit. They adapt.
Right now, another “breakthrough” investment is being pitched, another get-rich-quick promise is taking root. But before it can reach full swing, Coffeezilla is already closing in—ready to expose yet another fraud before it can do any more damage.
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