Fraudulent WIRED Coin Scam
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My X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash
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WIRED's X account was hacked to promote a fraudulent WIRED-branded crypto coin.
As people purchased the coin and the price began to rise, the scammer sold their stash, wiping out investors.
This year alone , the X accounts of various public figures have been compromised in aid of crypto pump-and-dump schemes.
An analysis of transaction data shows that the person or group who hacked my X account created the WIRED token at 1:20 am UTC that morning.
By 1:23 am , the scammer had begun to promote the coin on his X account; posts by other X users suggest they even appeared live on Spaces .
The previous weekend , Argentinian president Javier Milei had been embroiled in a scandal involving a coin called Libra .
Memecoin is currently generating revenue at a rate of between $1-2 million a day as a one percent cut of trades, third party calculations show.
Pump. Fun, the memecoin launchpad, is currently.
The most overtly threatening messages came from the anonymous Telegram user who threatened me.
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