As investors in the Mem cryptocurrency Shiba Inu continue to rise, a scam alert has come from the team of the popular cryptocurrency Shiba Inu.
The SHIB team has issued a warning about fraud targeting investors and via social media platforms on its official Twitter account.
Stay Alert & Safe #ShibArmy!
We’ve been made aware of a recent scam, traveling social media, and other communication platforms.
Here’s a quick video to provide more information on the matter. pic.twitter.com/UOh50WsJSQ
— Shib (@Shibtoken) November 21, 2021
The SHIB team said that a fake telegram group and fake users were created by the scammers, scammers impersonating Shiba Inu’s official accounts and responding to public posts.
It was determined that the scammers used the hashtags #SHIB, #SHIBARMY, #LEASH, #SHIBARMY and #BONE to deceive investors.
In addition, fraudsters are trying to deceive investors with expressions such as great deals, gifts and raffles to the SHIB community in the fake group opened to take advantage of the FOMO environment that dominates the crypto money market.
While the SHIB team announced that there are no special offers, giveaways, sweepstakes, airdrops or bonuses at this time, they warned investors to be wary of scams and misleading campaigns.
Stating that investors should share their account information with anyone, the SHIB team also stated that they should not be members of the fake Telegram group.
The team also warned that investors should never send tokens to any other account.