@SECGov 1/ Celebrities including Lindsay Lohan, Jake Paul and a group of rappers and R&B stars such as Soulja Boy, Akon and Lil Yachty are being charged for shilling Tronix (TRX) and BitTorrent (BTT) without disclosing the fact that they were being compensated for it.
@SECGov 2/ Six of the eight celebrities facing charges agreed to pay a total of more than $400,000 to settle those charges, with the exception of Cortez Way and singer Austin Mahone.
What we know so far regarding the @fRiENDSiES_Ai exit scam:
On 20 Feb, fRiENDSiES Ai posted on their twitter that they were pausing the project due to market volatility.
Let’s see what went down 🧵 👇
@fRiENDSiES_Ai 1/ In March 2022, the fRiENDSiES #NFT project conducted a Dutch-style auction which raised ~1,530.78 $ETH.
@fRiENDSiES_Ai 2/ According to the roadmap, which has been deleted, the team promised 1.25% of the royalties to be given back to token holders. However, investors have not received anything.
We are seeing multiple community reports that @BurstRoyale_NFT is a scam project that drains NFT wallets after downloading the game. Several individuals have reported that they fell victim to this phishing site over the past month.
Please stay safe!
@BurstRoyale_NFT 1/ Burst Royale appears to have a consistent modus operandi where a “team member” contacts their targets on Twitter offering them a job for the project and asking them to download their game, which is a proxy malware that drains wallets.
@BurstRoyale_NFT 2/ The malware is reportedly called RedLine Stealer which connects to a server to exfiltrate data. It can be found on underground forums for sale for ~$150.
1/ We are seeing a fake @Coinbase email scam. Here’s how it works 👇👀
The scammer targets individuals who are selling items online and promise to pay a large sum of BTC through Coinbase.
@coinbase 2/ They’ll then ask for the email address associated with the victim's Coinbase account.
Coinbase allows users to send crypto to an email address.
They then pretend to send you BTC and provide a fake screenshot of the confirmation.
@coinbase 3/ The scammer will then send an email pretending to be from Coinbase that will ask you to purchase BTC and send it to your 'activation address' in the email subject line. This is in order to ‘activate the encrypted fund’.