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<p class="is-style-lead">Fraudsters have created multiple fake accounts on X, impersonating crypto scam investigators CertiK and ZachXBT.</p> 
<p>Scammers are now cloning legitimate crypto investigators by impersonating them on X to defraud victims.</p> 
<p>Crypto sleuth ZachXBT has warned users in an X post on Nov. 15, saying a “large network of bot accounts” has started impersonating crypto detectives on the social network. As per ZachXBT’s calculations, scammers have stolen more than $300,000 worth of crypto within a few days.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr">A large network of bot accounts impersonating users like myself on X/Twitter has resulted in $305k+ stolen over the past few days. <br><br>They even tricked Dexerto into accidentally making an article/post promoting the scam.<br><br>The scam worked by having impersonators post about a fake… <a href="https://t.co/lde4CXHjK5" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/lde4CXHjK5</a></p>— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) <a href="https://twitter.com/zachxbt/status/1724860554865500184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">November 15, 2023</a>
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<p>ZachXBT also warned that unsuspecting victims might click a phishing link, allowing scammers to drain their assets from their non-custodial wallets. As <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fraudsters-make-50-000-a-day-by-spoofing-crypto-researchers/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">noted</a> by BleepingComputer, the scammers have already created many fake accounts, pretending to be blockchain analytics firm CertiK and Scam Sniffer.</p> 
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<p>In their posts on X, bad actors are trying to lure victims, saying there are security breaches on the decentralized exchange <a href="https://crypto.news/tag/uniswap/" data-type="link" data-id="https://crypto.news/tag/uniswap/">Uniswap</a> and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) marketplace OpenSea. To scale the scam, fraudsters distribute posts on X with hashtags like #UniswapExploit.</p> 
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<p>Hayden Adams, Founder of Uniswap, <a href="https://twitter.com/haydenzadams/status/1722821613400244488?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">took to X</a> to warn the crypto community of the scam, saying there are “phishing scammers” pretending there is a Uniswap exploit.</p> 
<p>In late October 2023, crypto.news <a href="https://crypto.news/scammers-exploit-bitcoin-etf-hype-with-fake-ibtc-token/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a> that a BNB Chain-based token scammed investors for nearly $90,000 worth of crypto as the crypto community is abuzz with spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (<a href="https://crypto.news/tag/etf/" data-type="link" data-id="https://crypto.news/tag/etf/">ETF</a>) excitement.</p> 
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   <p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PeckShieldAlert?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#PeckShieldAlert</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/slippage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#slippage</a> iShares Bitcoin <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24IBTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$IBTC</a> on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BNBChain?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#BNBChain</a> has dropped -100%<br>0xf495…5B37 has swapped 1,000,000,000,000,000 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24IBTC&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$IBTC</a> for ~394.8 <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%24BNB&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$BNB</a> (worth ~$88K)<br><br>*Note*: The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/rugpull?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">#rugpull</a> token shares the same name as the legitimate ones <a href="https://t.co/rT3XLoqHqF" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/rT3XLoqHqF</a></p>— PeckShieldAlert (@PeckShieldAlert) <a href="https://twitter.com/PeckShieldAlert/status/1717451477092905449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">October 26, 2023</a>
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<p>According to&nbsp;an X post from&nbsp;a blockchain analytics firm PeckShield, a bad actor swapped one quadrillion iShares Bitcoin (IBTC) tokens for 394.8 Binance Coin (<a href="https://crypto.news/price/bnb/" data-type="link" data-id="https://crypto.news/price/bnb/">BNB</a>) worth $89,000 at the moment through PancakeSwap, with IBTC’s price immediately dropping by 100%.</p> 
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CertiK and ZachXBT impersonators stole over $300k in crypto

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