Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes

Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes

3 years ago
Anonymous $BH0TGXkyPe

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ab8qk/elaborate-cryptoeats-food-delivery-scam-steals-dollar500000-in-minutes

For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency. The creators mocked up a logo, got TikTok influencers to promote it (and one to wear its swag on a video), apparently threw a party, and announced the EATS token through a press release that went out over a service used often by legitimate companies.

Almost immediately after its launch, CryptoEats vanished from the internet, along with a few hundred thousand dollars in one of the more elaborate shitcoin rug pulls in recent memory.

Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes

Oct 19, 2021, 7:52pm UTC
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3ab8qk/elaborate-cryptoeats-food-delivery-scam-steals-dollar500000-in-minutes > For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency. The creators mocked up a logo, got TikTok influencers to promote it (and one to wear its swag on a video), apparently threw a party, and announced the EATS token through a press release that went out over a service used often by legitimate companies. > Almost immediately after its launch, CryptoEats vanished from the internet, along with a few hundred thousand dollars in one of the more elaborate shitcoin rug pulls in recent memory.