RATE Group | EOS Gains on Ethereum with Fake Airdrop Scam
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EOS Gains on Ethereum with Fake Airdrop Scam

27 Sep EOS Gains on Ethereum with Fake Airdrop Scam

Posted at 14:50h in Ethereum News by

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The EOS project is seeing a blatant attempt to steal private keys using faked Twitter profiles.

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Until recently, Ethereum (ETH) was ubiquitous for fake Twitter giveaways. But as a sign that EOS is becoming more important in the crypto ecosystem, a new scam is making the rounds on Twitter.

The scam uses faked Twitter handles, just like the Ethereum giveaways. A faked WhalePanda, with a different Twitter handle, led to the scam:

https://twitter.com/berniceal82c51q/status/1044940196721160192

The alleged airdrop uses an outright blatant approach, demanding the private keys to an Ethereum wallet. The demand is absurd, given that EOS tokens cannot be airdropped anymore to an Ethereum wallet – they are frozen, and a new EOS network has been running for months, with a totally different wallet and system of addresses.

The fake EOS airdrop offers 10 EOS for each Ethereum held in the wallet. Of course, the form promises never to use or store the private key, just use it to verify the…

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