Fraudsters have created a fake FTX 2.0 token to cheat users
Fraudsters have created a fake FTX 2.0 token to cheat users
fraudsters have created a fake FTX token called FTX 2.0 to be less than 24 hours after the company's new CEO announced that the platform could be revived than the now bankrupt crypto exchange.
According to the blockchain security company Peckshield, the bad actors sent the tokens to the FTX exchange and gave to add liquidity before they removed them on other crypto exchanges. The aim is to tempt users to click on fraudulent links that exhaust or burn their accounts.
fake FTX 2.0-token
The security company 2.0 has a hint functions that enable the fraudsters to manipulate the users' accounting stands.
The bad actors have thrown the fake tokens on the tron network and the crypto exchanges Kucooin and Binance.
"Send fraud ftx 2.0 to the FTX exchange, pretend to be the FTX exchange, to add liquidity, and then throw it off to @Justinsuntron, Kucoin and Binance. Peckshield.
John Ray: FTX could be revived
The fraudulent Airdrop-Move comes, since FTX is still deep in an insolvency proceedings. Remember that the stock exchange and its connected companies made for voluntary insolvency protection according to Chapter 11 in November 2022 after he had suffered from a serious liquidity crisis.
Yesterday the new CEO of FTX, John Ray, told according to the Wall Street Journal, FTX could be revived. He noticed that "everything is on the table" and that his team, if a path was discovered forward, not only explore it, but would follow him. Therefore, the fraudsters try to take advantage of the feelings of the users because the hope of a new FTX has arisen.
not the first
fraudsters are always looking for ways to take advantage of users in the crypto room, in particular through fake airdrops and change of identity.
Last year, fraudsters sent the specifications to be the developers of the Defi Protocol Pancakeswap, emails to crypto dealers and offered Airdrops worth more than $ 12,000 in order to tempt unsuspecting users to click on phishing links that would use their wallet credit.
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