Feed — Scam and Fraud

“You published my address”: vague takedown threats

A legal-sounding demand with no link to a specific page is often intimidation, not a proper privacy notice.

Starknet is a real Ethereum layer-two network; buying STRK at the listing euphoria was still a classic retail-liquidity bet.

Academy Golden sells courses first, then “mentors” and wallets — the same arc previously tied to Dream Way Academy.

A platform that demands hundreds of USDT to “mix” your payout so it looks clean is asking for a fresh loss.

Unsolicited trademark-check messages that beg for a single YES are lead-generation, not a filing office.

A future fault-tolerant quantum machine could threaten some elliptic-curve keys — today’s “migrate now” DMs are usually the real attack.

A WWW’25 study maps how clone factories run one-day rug pulls across Uniswap and PancakeSwap with shared contract templates.

Raydium is permissionless Solana plumbing; Solidus Labs found soft-rug patterns across most pools it studied there.

Forbes-style crypto wealth rankings mostly crown exchange and stablecoin operators — scammers still sell them as proof you can copy the jackpot.

A rug pull builds excitement around a token or pool, then removes the exit — via drained liquidity, insider dumps or hostile code.

Raids, points and “rekt” leaderboards make theft feel like a game — and late buyers become a function, not people.

A Sybil setup is many fake identities controlled by one centre — used to farm airdrops, warp votes and inflate “community”.