How Scammers Use Fake Influencers to Promote Tokens

A token isn't good because someone with a blue check says so. Manufactured hype — paid shills, fake endorsements and bot armies — is one of the main engines behind scam tokens.

The tactics

• Paid promotion disguised as genuine excitement, with no disclosure.
• Fake endorsements using a celebrity's name or image without permission.
• Bot armies flooding comments with identical hype to fake consensus.
• Coordinated ‘calls’ where insiders buy first, then unleash promotion to dump on followers.

How to see through it

• Ask: does this person profit if I buy? Assume yes.
• Ignore the hype and look at the on-chain data instead.
• Be wary of accounts that only post about one token.
• Real projects rarely need a wall of identical comments.

Trust data, not faces

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