{"id":47624,"date":"2021-08-13T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T07:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47624"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:18:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:18:52","slug":"scammers-have-begun-advertising-morgentokens-on-behalf-of-morgenshtern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/scammers-have-begun-advertising-morgentokens-on-behalf-of-morgenshtern\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers have begun advertising &#8216;morgentokens&#8217; on behalf of Morgenshtern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online, several sites have appeared advertising tokens purportedly on behalf of the rapper Morgenshtern, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/in4security\/527\\\">discovered<\/a> by the authors of the Telegram channel In4security.<\/p>\n<p>Several such pages exist; none of them use encryption and they contain information that may indicate a fraudulent scheme, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.kommersant.ru\/doc\/4938652\\\">Kommersant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On one of the sites, the project team lists Morgenshtern himself, the singer Slava Marlow, and a certain Vitaly Butyrin, for whom a photograph of Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin was used, as well as an unknown person in the so-called Guy Fawkes mask. In the contacts only a non-existent Telegram channel is listed.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the attackers are likely to offer tokens for sale and either appropriate them or siphon funds from crypto wallets via phishing.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals often use the names of celebrities in their schemes \u2014 for example, promoting a fake cryptocurrency airdrop in the name of Bill Gates or <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-themed-cryptocurrency-scam-nets-criminals-more-than-100000\">Elon Musk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several sites have appeared online promoting tokens allegedly on behalf of the rapper Morgenshtern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1415,1154,596],"class_list":["post-47624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-celebrities","tag-crimes","tag-tokens"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47626,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47624\/revisions\/47626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}