Robinhoods Twitter chopped, used to advertise scam tokens
Robinhoods Twitter chopped, used to advertise scam tokens
Robinhood is a platform that is known for your user -friendly approach to stocks and enables you to quickly invest in different ways. It also enables you to buy crypto and is a well -known name among such investors.
However,Robinhood is primarily a stock trading platform and, as such, has no proprietary cryptocurrency. This did not prevent bad actors from pretending to
official account violated
Yesterday an unknown villain managed to get control of Robinhood's official Twitter account and use it to publish a decorated tweet in which $ RBH, Robinhoods allegedly newly shaped tokens. The company has no native cryptocurrency and has never shaped a token itself. Instead, investors can throw in their lot to the platform by buying the Hood share listed on the Nasdaq.
looks as if the social media were hacked by Robinhood
They only made about 10 people bite on the fraud token before the link was switched off.
So far, the token has only seen purchases of <$ 1000. I can imagine that the people who are now getting involved have seen the volume climb and are looking for thrills. pic.twitter.com/qladvaszri
- conor (@jconorgan) 25. January 2023
In addition, according to blockchain safety research tools, the token is a honey pot-which means that the new owner can no longer sell it after purchase or even transfer it to another wallet.
In general, this type of attack is carried out by an attacker by pretending to be a well -known person or platform and is therefore easier to recognize.
Since the fraud was advertised by Robinhood in the verified social media, it is easy to understand why more people would fall for the bait.
fomo tactics used
to get the users to hurry and buy before the bad actor's account could be blocked, the tweet customer attracted a low token price of only $ 0.0005 and pointed to an incoming lunar shot. Fortunately, the damage seems to be low because the post has taken offline and the responsible account was blocked by the Binance security team.
In addition, it is difficult to say whether the few people who bought the token were real investors who fell for fraud or trading bots like those that were manipulated by Avraham Eisenberg in a subsequent stroke to Mango Markets.
Since the attackers shaped their tokens on BSC, the wallet was quickly responsible for the nonsense shut down from the security team from Binance.
cz also commented on the matter and advised the community to stay on the safe side and to apply their better judgment when buying a token, even if it seems to be completely legitimate.
looks as if the Robinhood account was hacked and for A Coin on BNB Chain. Always think critically, even if the account looks or is real. https://t.co/xswhivdedw
- cz 🔶 binance (@cz_binance) 25. January 2023
So far, Robinhood has not published an official statement on this topic.
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