Ukraine’s Cryptocurrency Prize Becomes Fraud Tool!

After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western world started to support Ukraine financially. While donation campaigns are started in many countries for Ukraine, one of these campaigns continues in the crypto money world. Donations made via crypto money, which started last week, over 50 million dollars level reached.

Donations made by sending them to official cryptocurrency wallet addresses shared by Ukraine were normally made without expecting anything in return. But Ukraine has decided to make a comeback to cryptocurrency donors. While Ukraine hasn’t shared any details about the airdrop yet. Seems like a mess right now.

Ukraine’s Airdrop campaign may have been the opportunity for scammers:

After Ukraine’s official airdrop announcement on Twitter, Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan released 7 billion units on Wednesday. Peaceful World (WORLD) It showed that a token named was created and sent to the official cryptocurrency donation address of Ukraine. After that, it was seen that Ukraine’s wallet sent 1 million Peaceful World tokens to seed the liquidity pool.

In the past minutes, WORLD tokens have been received from the account named ‘Ukraine Crypto Donation’. started to disperse seen. As of writing this article, more than 1,400 crypto money wallets have been transferred. But later on There has been a development in Etherscan.

Etherscan marked the address in question, which appears to have sent WORLD tokens, as suspicious and told people that the address may be used for spam or fraud warned about. Blockchain experts also made a statement on the subject. Experts say that such a process may also be triggered by third parties. and the Ukrainian wallet never interacted directly with Peaceful World tokens. explained. This means that the Airdrop plan in question may have been used as an opportunity by fraudsters.

Ukraine has not shared any developments about the airdrop yet. The last statement made yesterday morning included the Airdrop announcement and announced that snapshots would be taken on March 3 at 19.00. We will continue to report as we progress.

Ukraine canceled the Airdrop campaign:

Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov announced that they have canceled the Airdrop campaign they started. The Airdrops we mentioned above are also indeed the scammers did. The Minister’s statement was as follows:

“After careful consideration, we have decided to cancel the airdrop. Every day there are more and more people who want to help Ukraine fight aggression. Instead, we will soon announce NFTs to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We don’t have a plan”