There have been many forms of scams against investors recently. In addition to attacks on the social accounts of projects, many scammers have created tokens or platform to impersonate projects to trick investors. We recently discovered a community pretending to be an airdrop & bounty channel to scam users. Let’s find out more details.
Scam Alert: Moon Pad Airdrops doesn’t channel airdrops
As described on Twitter, they have channels with a large number of followers, specializing in posting airdrop + promotions for projects. And the every tweet have countless users tricked into providing information in the hope of rewards. Some channels of Moon Pad Airdrops:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AirdropMoonPad with 64.1K Followers
Telegram: https://t.me/MoonPadAirdrops with 129k Subscribers
Telegram admin: @MoonPadAdmin and @Danial_Devolper
How do they work?
As we know, Moon Pad Airdrops take the airdrops of other projects and channels to repost on tele group and share on Twitter. User mistakenly thinks that it is Moon Pad Airdrops as a partner. However, that is not the case.
In addition, we received information from another community sharing about being scammed by Moon Pad Airdrops as follows:
Community: Moon Pad Airdrops asked us to transfer a total of $190 twice to promote the project. The transaction is attached as follows:
The first time: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x63f1c27a919fbe31819036452dc2814c6b812b6cfa5a11b974c662b92921fb8a
The 2nd: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x9f1cd18a47523693d096d2468aa61ce90dc1f2603444c8143e01c0a6088823fc
Coincu ask: How do you find their information?
Community: We found contact information from Twitter, and they promised to promote the project with a guarantee of 5k retweets. However, after the full transfer, they deleted all telegram messages and didn’t reply to us anymore.
Looking at the transaction below, there is certainly not only one victim. They took advantage of the decentralized to hide information and do wrong things.
How to avoid scam?
If you want to find out a channel promote like Moon Pad Airdrops, please check the information in communities like Twitter, telegram to see if anyone has reported Scam. Also, please check the wallet’s transactions to see if this wallet is active regularly or not? Has the wallet been created for a long time? And you can also find out if the channel has been reported by any party as a scam or not. One simple way you can go to Coincu’s SCAM ALERT, where we just post article about scam in the crypto market.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas about the project, please email ventures@coincu.com.
DISCLAIMER: The Information on this website is provided as general market commentary and does not constitute investment advice. We encourage you to do your own research before investing.
Alan
Coincu Ventures
Author
Scam Alert
Scam Alert: Channel Moon Pad Airdrops Scam
There have been many forms of scams against investors recently. In addition to attacks on the social accounts of projects, many scammers have created tokens or platform to impersonate projects to trick investors. We recently discovered a community pretending to be an airdrop & bounty channel to scam users. Let’s find out more details.
Scam Alert: Moon Pad Airdrops doesn’t channel airdrops
As described on Twitter, they have channels with a large number of followers, specializing in posting airdrop + promotions for projects. And the every tweet have countless users tricked into providing information in the hope of rewards. Some channels of Moon Pad Airdrops:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AirdropMoonPad with 64.1K Followers
Telegram: https://t.me/MoonPadAirdrops with 129k Subscribers
Telegram admin: @MoonPadAdmin and @Danial_Devolper
How do they work?
As we know, Moon Pad Airdrops take the airdrops of other projects and channels to repost on tele group and share on Twitter. User mistakenly thinks that it is Moon Pad Airdrops as a partner. However, that is not the case.
In addition, we received information from another community sharing about being scammed by Moon Pad Airdrops as follows:
Community: Moon Pad Airdrops asked us to transfer a total of $190 twice to promote the project. The transaction is attached as follows:
The first time: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x63f1c27a919fbe31819036452dc2814c6b812b6cfa5a11b974c662b92921fb8a
The 2nd: https://bscscan.com/tx/0x9f1cd18a47523693d096d2468aa61ce90dc1f2603444c8143e01c0a6088823fc
Coincu ask: How do you find their information?
Community: We found contact information from Twitter, and they promised to promote the project with a guarantee of 5k retweets. However, after the full transfer, they deleted all telegram messages and didn’t reply to us anymore.
Looking at the transaction below, there is certainly not only one victim. They took advantage of the decentralized to hide information and do wrong things.
How to avoid scam?
If you want to find out a channel promote like Moon Pad Airdrops, please check the information in communities like Twitter, telegram to see if anyone has reported Scam. Also, please check the wallet’s transactions to see if this wallet is active regularly or not? Has the wallet been created for a long time? And you can also find out if the channel has been reported by any party as a scam or not. One simple way you can go to Coincu’s SCAM ALERT, where we just post article about scam in the crypto market.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, or ideas about the project, please email ventures@coincu.com.
DISCLAIMER: The Information on this website is provided as general market commentary and does not constitute investment advice. We encourage you to do your own research before investing.
Alan
Coincu Ventures
