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The account has made multiple posts promising a token giveaway and ushers users to a copycat website to connect their crypto wallet. The X (Twitter) account of crypto-focused venture capital firm Blockchain Capital has seemingly been taken over by scammers attempting to lure users with the promise of a token claim . On Aug. 9, Blockchain Capital's account made multiple posts promising a giveaway of "BCAP" token s and directed users to a copycat website that emulates the appearance of the VC firm's original. Scammers posting a link to a fake Blockchain Capital website under the guise of a token claim. Source: X The copycat website — which includes an additonal "n" in the URL — directs users to connect their crypto wallet, a common tactic used by phishing scammers in order to drain user funds. The scammers tactically turned off the comments section in an attempt to prevent others from warning of the possible scam. This is fake. Don’t get scammed. https://t...

Elon Musk addressed the issue of scam tokens like $X and $TWITTER falsely claiming connections to the social media platform. Elon Musk firmly stated that the social media platform X, (formerly known as Twitter), has no plans to launch any crypto tokens, as he responded to a post regarding questionable X and Twitter-based digital currencies on Saturday, August 5. In response to a post made by DogeDesigner, Elon Musk addressed the issue of scam token s like $X and $TWITTER falsely claiming connections to the social media platform. DogeDesigner had cautioned the crypto community about being cautious with certain articles related to scam token s and clarified that neither Elon Musk nor X had ever initiated a crypto token . In his reply, Elon Musk asserted, "And we never will." Previously, Elon Musk had dropped hints about the possibility of incorporating cryptocurrency as a payment option on his platform. Traders were left wondering whether he would introduce a particular cryp...

Investors in Pepecoin (PEPE), the meme Crypto currency du jour, have started a Twitter war against Crypto exchange Coinbase after its newsletter warned of its volatility and associations with the alt-right. On Wednesday, Coinbase pointed to the surge in interest in memecoins — not seen since the cryptocurrency bull run of 2017 — in its weekly newsletter. It warned that these often volatile projects are bad long-term investments and can even be a rug-pull. What’s more, the surge in trading has contributed to exorbitant gas fees on Ethereum. “PEPE, which was issued around three weeks ago with a comically huge supply of 420 trillion tokens, has been leading the memecoin activity,” read Coinbase Bytes . “The token is based on the Pepe the Frog meme, which first surfaced on the internet nearly 20 years ago as a comic-strip character. Over time it has been co-opted as a hate symbol by alt-right groups , according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).” Pepe the Frog was cr...