A fake food delivery platform named Crypto Eats has robbed its users of some USD 500,000 before disappearing off the face of the earth, leaving behind t-shirts and promotional merchandise, and the puzzled participants of its London launch party.
The scam resurfaced among discussions by a number of UK-based TikTok influencers who talked about a new startup poised to compete against giants such as UberEats by enabling its customers to pay with cryptocurrency, as reported by Vice. The fake service’s creators promoted it online, created merchandise with its logo, threw a party, and even issued a press release that has since been taken down by some services, but is still available on other websites.
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