David Schwartz, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Cryptographer at Ripple, recently drew public attention to the emergence of impersonation scammers targeting the Flare network support team following the token distribution event (TDE). The warning, which was made lightheartedly, comes a few hours after Schwartz berated the Flare team for their token distribution policies.

“Congratulations to the Flare network on just hitting a major milestone,” Schwartz jokingly remarked, sharing a screenshot of a fraudulent Flare support Twitter handle that he had just blocked. Schwartz’s comments, while evidently sarcastic, underscore the magnitude of scams and bots on Crypto Twitter, so much so that being impersonated feels like an initiation rite to the space.