Token risk report

Rug and scam log

Documented cases where memecoin buyers lost money: rug pulls, hijacked accounts promoting a token, clones of known projects and honeypots. Every entry has a date, a contract address and public sources.

10 entries, newest first. Updated 18 October 2026.

Rug pull3
The creators or insiders pull the liquidity or dump their supply on buyers.
Hijacked account5
A hijacked brand or celebrity account promotes a contract address.
Clone1
A token poses as a known project with the same name, ticker or logo.
Honeypot1
The contract lets you buy but blocks ordinary holders from selling.

2026

  1. Hijacked accountConfirmed

    $VLADVladhood

    Robinhood Chain0x92D1…D969

    The hijacked X account of Robinhood's CEO promoted Vladhood as the “official mascot of Robinhood Chain” that would be listed in the Robinhood app. Robinhood confirmed the account was compromised and that the token was not authorised. On-chain monitor MLM (via Cointelegraph) says the attackers took about 650 ETH.

  2. Hijacked accountSuspected

    $SCATMANScam Altman

    Robinhood Chain0x9beF…6604

    The @SpaceXAI and @Starlink accounts reposted the token promotion while its market cap climbed into the millions of USD. The contract creator sold the minted supply for about 73.7 ETH and the token fell close to zero (rug pull). Neither SpaceX nor X has publicly confirmed the account takeover.

2025

  1. Hijacked accountConfirmed

    $MubarakahMubarakah

    BNB Chain0x3199…8a9a

    The hijacked WeChat account of Binance co-CEO Yi He promoted the existing Mubarakah token. Per Lookonchain, the attacker bought 21.16M tokens for 19,479 USDT before the post; the price rose about 800% and crashed as they sold, for roughly $55,000 profit. Yi He said her WeChat was hacked and Binance said the account was restored.

  2. Rug pullSuspected

    $LIBRALIBRA

    SolanaBo9jh3…vUsU

    After Argentina's President Javier Milei promoted LIBRA on X, its market cap briefly passed $4B and fell more than 90% within hours. Bubblemaps (via Decrypt) said insiders pulled about $87M in USDC and SOL from liquidity; Arkham put the total extracted at over $100M. Milei denies any connection to the project. The cases in Argentina are unresolved.

  3. CloneConfirmed

    $TRUMPTRUMP (fake)

    Solana9ZJjCW…A1yx

    A copy of the TRUMP token created right after the official launch (official mint: 6p6xgHyF7AeE6TZkSmFsko444wqoP15icUSqi2jfGiPN). Cointelegraph counted 61 fake TRUMP and MELANIA tokens on Solana within 24 hours, taking in $4.8M from 12,641 wallets. The liquidity in this pool was pulled, as the Solscan transaction shows.

2024

  1. Rug pullSuspected

    $HAWKHawk Tuah

    SolanaHAWKTh…tj34

    HAWK, launched by Haliey Welch with the overHere launchpad, reached a market cap of about $400-490M and fell more than 90% within hours. Bubblemaps said insiders held up to 96% of supply. The team denied selling. Per Welch's lawyer, the SEC closed its inquiry without charges.

  2. Hijacked accountConfirmed

    $IBinfinite backrooms

    Solana4J5HoZ…pump

    A hacker took over the X account of Andy Ayrey, creator of Truth Terminal, and used it to promote the IB token. Its market cap reached about $25M and then fell about 98%. Ayrey confirmed he regained access and that the attacker socially engineered his mobile carrier. DexScreener data put the attacker's take at about $600,000.

  3. Hijacked accountConfirmed

    $GRIMACEGrimace

    Solana4BRumm…pump

    Hackers signing as “India_X_Kr3w” took over McDonald's Instagram account and promoted the pump.fun token GRIMACE as a “McDonald's experiment”. The market cap went from a few thousand dollars to about $25M and collapsed; the hackers claimed about $700,000 in SOL. McDonald's acknowledged the incident.

2023

  1. Rug pullConfirmed

    $BALDBald

    Base0x27D2…25a8

    The BALD deployer pulled the liquidity from its LeetSwap pool before Base's public launch and the price fell about 85-93%. The removal is visible on-chain and was reported by several outlets. Figures differ: Benzinga cites $25.6M, FXStreet over 3,100 ETH of profit. The anonymous deployer denied it was a rug.

2021

  1. HoneypotConfirmed

    $SQUIDSquid Game

    BNB Chain0x8723…9Bc5

    The unofficial Squid Game token had an “anti-dump” mechanism in its contract that stopped buyers from selling. On 1 November the developers sold 22,328 BNB (about $11.9M per The Block) and the price fell about 99%, from roughly $2,856 to a fraction of a cent.

How we keep this log

An entry is added only with a public, verifiable source: a statement by the project or the account owner, a regulator or court decision, an on-chain analysis or a news report that can be checked. We do not add tokens based on chat rumours.

“Confirmed” means the project, the account owner, a regulator or a court acknowledged the takeover or fraud, or several independent outlets report it as fact. Everything else is “Suspected”. An entry does not establish that any particular person is guilty.

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