Cryptocurrency detective ZachXBT announced that $2.6 million of users' money was stolen after a fraudster impersonating an influencer said he would launch memecoin and airdrop it to those who sent him Solana (SOL) for this.
The fraudster, who impersonated Ansem, an influencer with 250,000 followers on He said that he would airdrop this altcoin to his users.
In addition, he shared a link for his users to link their accounts for pre-sale. This link was, of course, 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 airdrop and the assets of the investors whose wallets were connected.
The scam comes amid the Solana ecosystem memecoin craze that has emerged recently and has been on the agenda of the cryptocurrency market. Many influencers on X want SOL tokens to be sent to them and make statements that the memecoins they will launch will be airdropped to users.
BOME, another memecoin on Solana, was recently launched and was also listed on cryptocurrency exchanges Binance and Bybit after surpassing the $1 billion market cap.
*This is not investment advice.