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Dogecoin ‘rival’ token Floki rugpulls…twice

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Tesla’s owner and crypto’s most notorious influencer Elon Musk tweeted on the 25th of June his new Shiba Inu will be named Floki, which promptly led to a frantic launch of a myriad of meme tokens exploiting the name. 

As expected, scams popped up among these purposeless and ad hoc created coins but nonetheless, some attracted massive attention and funds, such as the ETH (ETH) token Floki Inu ($FLOKI), which quickly skyrocketed in value only to leave investors disillusioned and hustled.

Not a dog, but another cat in the bag

Historically, Elon Musk’s tweets moved the market in a big way, resulting in the issuance of a trillion Floki Inus, the price of which was driven by the hype.

Equally fast, Floki Inu encountered problems as investors realized there were issues with the contract, eventually raising red flags due to users receiving error messages after withdrawing or selling the meme token bought on decentralized exchange (DEX) Uniswap.

Nonetheless, the fear of missing out (FOMO) prevailed for many who opted to gamble, despite the project’s scam being exposed, as the scam gets a sequel. 

Once a cheater, always a cheater 

“In reverse Robin Hood-style the developer was taxing holders 20% on transactions to funnel their funds into his own wallet, holding these funds for ransom and the supply was inflating fast,” the project announced in the name of full disclosure, but that was not the end.

This cat-like dog proved to have several lives as the developer team created a new ETH contract, Floki Inu V2 while encouraging investors to migrate their tokens.

Then, the second scam unfolded in a classic rug pull fashion as an insider drained the project’s liquidity pool, exiting with 236 ETH transferred to Tornado Cash, a privacy tool for concealing the history of ETH transactions, while leaving just 0.25 Ether behind, according to Etherscan.

As developers keep pointing fingers at who framed who on Twitter, the project refuses to die. 

If, like a cat, this dog could have seven more lives, judging by the number of its Twitter followers. Full me once shame on you, full me twice shame on me.

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