Cryptocurrency ICOs are often targeted by criminals and hackers alike. A lot of people have tried to take advantage of these platforms as a way to steal money or defraud investors in other ways.
The Everex ICO has fallen victim to such a scam, as all its investors were targeted by a dedicated spam campaign. The email in question included an Ethereum address for “unsolved tokens”, although the crowdsale concluded successfully not too long ago.
It is neither the first nor the last time we will see a cryptocurrency ICO fall victim to scammers and hackers. Issues like these have been going on for quite some time now, and it appears the criminals are only getting craftier.
This latest scam involving the Everex ICO mailing list goes to show how resourceful criminals can be in the long run. It remains unclear how they obtained this list of email addresses in the first place.
Terrible, i almost fell for it.
Warning sign.