WARNING! These Crypto Scams Could WRECK YOU! What You Need To Know!

"Crypto scams always spike during a bull run. And right now they are everywhere."

"In June, Cointelegraph's website was hit by a front-end exploit injecting a fake airdrop banner that prompted visitors to connect for bogus CTG tokens."

"Coin Market Cap also dealt with a malicious verify wallet popup before removing the injected code."

"And in a headline case, a whale lost approximately $32 million of crypto after signing a malicious transaction linked to Inferno Drainer, an established scam as a service."

"And new kits keep popping up, too, like Vanilla Drainer, which has been tied to additional multi-million dollar thefts in recent weeks."

"Regulators have taken notice, though. Kim Kardashian was fined over $1 million for touting Emacs without disclosing $250,000 in payments."

"Wallet and protocol teams have warned about this pattern for years. UniS swap support pages specifically flag so-called airdrop tokens with URLs in the name or description designed to lure you into connecting and claiming."

"AI is supercharging this stuff. During SpaceX's Starship launch back in June 2024, researchers counted over 35 fake Elon Musk live streams peddling the classic send one BTC get two backbait with pinned wallet addresses and QR codes."

"Last month, Sentinel Labs outlined AI generated YouTube videos pushing trading bot scripts that were actually malicious contracts. More than $1 million were siphoned before takedowns."

"And just this summer, onchain sleuth Zack XPTt exposed a fake Coinbase support call center that tricked users into creating wallets with compromised seed phrases. The scammers siphoned over $4 million, including $240,000, from an elderly victim."