Mykola Shkil: investors lose money because of counterfeit ICO
Source:ICO,-the expert has shared the disturbing statistics of fraud in crowdfunding. According to Nikolay Shkileva, users lost about $ 4.5 million because of the fake sites. About it writes .
theInvesting in the ICO combined with the risk
While the information about all kinds of Samah to ICO entrenched on the front pages of news publications, creative scammers have learned is to fake sites known startups. So they took away about 7513 ETH have inattentive investors.
According Etherscan, network, Ethereum, there are about 92 945 running ERC-20 contracts. And this is only the ERC-20, this number does not include other standards. Many of the contracts were associated tocancel. If some of them managed to collect at least some amount of money, the hackers definitely tried to forge.
Shkil examples of fake URLS omisegоtoken.com and etnerscаn.io. The last link led to a fake ICO portal Etherscan. Some of the fake ICO managed to gather an impressive amount. One of the investors fake crowdfunding OmiseGO donated fraudsters 194 ETH, which is equivalent to 93 thousand dollars.
Recall, for around ICO is not affected even a correction with Bitcoin. However, many analysts about the danger of investing in these projects.
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