Crypto — Scam and Fraud

Starknet’s STRK token: technology is not a price floor

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

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

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

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

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”.

A bank can be annoying. A signed scam transaction can be final — that gap is the product scammers sell.

On a decentralised exchange the scam often lives in the token contract or the website you think you trust.

A 2017 “crypto LinkedIn” plus decentralised database raised millions — the utility token mostly did not.