An account on X claimed on Monday that the SHIB airdrop was back, and circulated a link for checking your own wallet. Mazrael, a long-standing member of the Shiba Inu community and an adviser to the game Shiba Eternity, called the post a scam the same day: “care. no such airdrop. this is a drainer.” Anyone holding Shiba Inu loses nothing from a click alone. The holding goes only with a signature, and that is exactly what such pages present as a harmless check.
The case: what ran across the timelines on October 12
The fake account posed as an official source and spoke of a new round of free tokens. Anyone following the shortened link landed on a page that at first asked only for the wallet to be connected. A window then opened that looked like an ordinary transaction. Mazrael wrote that such posts were flooding the timelines right now, and advised against clicking and in favour of reporting the accounts. The industry outlet U.Today picked up the episode at 11:25 UTC on October 12.
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