Shiba Inu Lead Dev Unmasks Copycat Amid Rising Twitter Scams

Shytoshi Kusama shines light on deception: the lately surfaced $TREAT & $SHI tokens are not what they seem to be.

Shiba Inu exposing a copycat Shiba inu in a forest.
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  • The Shiba Inu community rises against an unofficial $TREAT clone on ETH.
  • Shibarium L2 lead developer shames the imitator on ๐•, SHIB Army weighs in.
  • Phishing is one of the most prevalent crypto schemes, doubling since 2022.

Shiba Inu lead dev Shytoshi Kusama took to ๐• (formerly Twitter) to address the massive upswing of phishing scams, most of them involving unreleased SHIB Token cryptocurrencies like $TREAT and $SHI. Several ๐• users have been tagging $SHI stablecoin and $TREAT along with other unknown cryptocurrencies, causing confusion among the SHIB Army.

Blockchain scammers share ๐• posts illicitly portraying Shiba Inuโ€™s $TREAT surface every hour. Some of the new fraudulent posts garnered over 5,000 views, while Shibarium lead dev Shytoshi Kusama accidentally followed one of the culprit accounts on X.

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The rising $TREAT scams have been called out by several other prominent SHIB Army members, who advised the audience that both $TREAT and the stablecoin $SHI are yet to be released. To illustrate, SHIB Army member Sand accused the fake $TREAT deployers of โ€œlots of contract red flags you can check with the various tools available like token sniffer.โ€

Kusama Bites Back At TREAT Imitator

The culprit account mentions SHIB.io in its ๐• bio, pretending to be a member of the SHIB Token team. The user, who goes by the name โ˜…23, has 1,050 followers on X and posted the counterfeit message regarding โ€˜new smart contract addressesโ€™ for $TREAT & $SHI. โ€œExiting stealth mode soon โ€ฆ DYORโ€, read the message with 6,551 views and counting.

In response, Shytoshi Kusama uttered โ€œFake. And looks like you bought the account so it showed I followed you. Shameful. Smh. Do better.โ€. Indeed, Shiba Inuโ€™s fourth token $TREAT doesnโ€™t have an official launch date yet, but the copycat version of $TREAT already has 1,147 holders, according to the blockchain explorer EtherScan.

On The Flipside

  • A promoter on Twitter claims that Shytoshi Kusama is wrong in deeming any tokens not released by SHIB Token as scams.
  • Shibarium Layer-2 allows the deployment of new tokens on the blockchain, but prohibits copyright infringement and cloning.

Why This Matters

Phishing scams that imitate a well-known brand have been a go-to tactic for cybercriminals since 2022.

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Tadas Klimasevskis

Tadas Klimaลกevskis is a DailyCoin Journalist, covering memecoins & latest developments. Tadas has moderate holdings in SHIB, HBAR, LTC, MATIC and a selection of low-cap meme currencies.

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