Cryptocurrency users believe airdrop was distributed from Solana Memecoin Craze loses $2.6 million to scammers

Crypto sleuth Zach

A scammer impersonating Ansem, an influencer with 250,000 followers, said he would airdrop this altcoin to his users.

He also shared a link where users can connect their accounts for pre-sale. Of course, the link was fake and cryptocurrency users who linked their wallets lost the assets in their wallets. In other words, the fraudster stole both the SOL coins sent to him for the airdrop and the assets of investors whose wallets were linked.

These scams take place amid the memecoin craze of the Solana ecosystem, which has recently emerged and is rising to the top of the cryptocurrency market agenda. Many influencers on

BOME, another memecoin from Solana, was recently launched and has also been listed on cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Bybit after surpassing $1 billion in market capitalization.

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