Famous crypto scams ( Educational purpose) !!!

Lately, I've taken an interest in Dextools and the crazy amount of shitcoins created each second there.

I haven't invested any funds in it, but it's valuable to understand how scams operate to stay vigilant and avoid falling victim to them.

This is a list of the most famous crypto scams :

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1. MEV Bot Sandwich Exploits: Scammers identify pending blockchain transactions with a sufficiently high slippage tolerance, enabling them to front-run the trade and profit from it.
2. Honey Pot Frauds: Scammers create new tokens, provide liquidity on decentralized exchanges, restrict selling, and remove liquidity after attracting enough buyers.
3. Delayed Honey Pot Tactics: Scammers initially allow selling, then block it after drawing in buyers, turning the project into a honey pot. Later, they remove liquidity.
4. Manipulating Sell Tax: Scammers alter the token's sell tax to 99%, preventing selling; often visible through "Set Fee" calls on Etherscan.
5. Altering Marketing Fee: Scammers set a 99% marketing fee, preventing selling; typically indicated by "Set Structure" calls on Etherscan.
6. Delayed Honey Pot By Blacklist: Scammers enforce a delayed honey pot by blacklisting wallets, preventing selling; often seen as "Blacklist" calls on Etherscan.
7. Hidden Honey Pot By Gas Fee: Scammers design tokens with prohibitively high gas fees for selling, discouraging users from selling.
8. Hidden Honey Pot By Internal Function: Scammers implement delayed honey pots using hardcoded internal functions that are not visible on Etherscan.
9. Liquidity Removal Scams: Scammers pair a worthless token with a valuable one, provide liquidity, trick users into trading valuable tokens for the worthless one, and finally remove liquidity.
10. Liquidity Drainer Scams: Scammers lock or burn liquidity, mint new tokens, and drain the pool by selling minted tokens into it.
11. Hidden Mint Function Scams: Similar to liquidity drainers, scammers mint tokens with a concealed mint function.
12. Token Drainer Scams: Scammers lock or burn liquidity, then use hidden functions to drain tokens from users' wallets, resetting their balances to zero.
13. Slow Rug Scams: Scammers create a token, allocate a supply for themselves, and gradually sell this reserved supply, causing the chart to depreciate.
14. Slow Rug Distribution Scams: Scammers distribute tokens to multiple wallets they control and slowly sell them, leading to a gradual decrease in value.
15. Influencer-Driven Slow Rugs: Developers distribute tokens to influencers, who sell them gradually after a single tweet, causing a slow rug.
16. Twitter Pump & Dump Schemes: A group of influencers collaborates in private chats to artificially inflate and then dump a random coin on Twitter.
17. Insider Pump & Dump Scams: Developers and their associates purchase a significant amount of their coin at launch, capitalizing on the hype, sometimes sniping coins at launch.
18. Pre-Sale Fraud: Scammers organize pre-sale offerings on platforms like Pinksale, absconding with the funds and providing minimal liquidity at token launch.
19. Pre-Sale Dump Scams: Scammers orchestrate pre-sale offerings on platforms like Pinksale, encouraging their friends and followers to participate and then selling tokens en masse upon launch.
20. Twitter Pre-Sale Offering Frauds: Scammers bypass official pre-sale platforms, posting wallet addresses on Twitter to solicit funds, often engaging in fraudulent activities.
21. Psy Ops & Reverse Psychology: Token developers employ reverse psychology to either discourage malicious actors from buying or prevent outsiders from entering.
22. 0% Tax & Burned/Locked Liquidity PsyOp: Developers bait users into a scam coin by launching it with 0% tax and claiming burned/locked liquidity, a common psychological tactic.
23. Renounced Contract PsyOp: Developers lure users into a scam coin by renouncing the token contract while retaining a hidden backdoor for potential scams.
24. Sniper Prevention PsyOp: Teams claim a 99% sell tax to deter snipers but never lower it, deceiving users in the process.