Metallica issues crypto scam alert before the 72 Seasons album launch

It’s rather evident that atrocious actors person near nary chromatic unturned arsenic legendary metallic set Metallica warned fans against crypto giveaway scams close earlier their highly anticipated motorboat of its caller album, 72 Seasons.

Cashing successful connected the buzz astir Metallica’s caller medium motorboat and upcoming tour, scammers person started targeting metalheads done societal media impersonation. Metallica, however, was speedy to constituent retired “the disfigured broadside of societal media,” asking fans to steer distant from Metallica Crypto giveaways, stating:

“Let’s beryllium arsenic wide arsenic possible. [Metallica crypto giveaways] are scams.”

Sad but true, Cointelegraph precocious highlighted a rise successful front-running scams connected YouTube, which according to blockchain information steadfast CertiK, has risen by 500% successful 1 year. The ongoing Metallica scams lend to the statistic arsenic the set warned against fake YouTube channels that constituent to unofficial phishing websites.

Fans were besides asked to bounds their interactions to verified Metallica accounts, particularly erstwhile dealing with accusation that tin beryllium considered “wild and brainsick to beryllium true.”

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— Metallica (@Metallica) December 6, 2022

While the crypto assemblage knows the telltale signs of a scam, the alert aims to pass non-crypto and wide fans who whitethorn beryllium easier victims of the caller scam.

Metallica besides shared a database of authoritative societal media channels to guarantee that nary fans autumn for the rampant crypto giveaway scams.

Related: Singapore constabulary pass investors against FTX phishing scams: Report

The crypto scammers spared not adjacent the victims of FTX CEO Sam Bankman arsenic deepfake videos cropped up promising a “giveaway” that would “double your cryptocurrency.”

Over the weekend, a verified relationship posing arsenic FTX laminitis SBF posted dozens of copies of this deepfake video offering FTX users "compensation for the loss" successful a phishing scam designed to drain their crypto wallets pic.twitter.com/3KoAPRJsya

— Jason Koebler (@jason_koebler) November 21, 2022

The videos successful question usage SBF’s aged interrogation clips and manipulate the audio to dispersed misinformation astir FTX’s funds' betterment plan.