Scammers have turned their attention to the Shiba Inu community, as they recently created a fake SHIBARIUM token amid emerging reports of an imminent launch of the highly-anticipated layer-2 solution.

The parties involved in the malicious act had earlier created a fake BLUR token, as highlighted by blockchain security resource PeckShield, in a tweet today.

According to PeckShield, they airdropped these fake BLUR tokens to wallets belonging to Yuga Labs, Justin Sun, and Coinbase, attempting to deceive people into thinking the bogus token is officially from Blur. Blur NFT marketplace unveiled its native governance token yesterday. It bears mentioning that Blur has an official ongoing airdrop and has warned investors to be mindful of scam airdrops.

Following swaps and transfers, the scammers removed liquidity from the bogus BLUR token and created a fake SHIBARIUM token. This move comes shortly after Shytoshi Kusama, Shiba Inu’s lead developer, disclosed yesterday that Shibarium is finally ready, and he will be releasing a series of Medium articles starting today to introduce the L2 network to the world.

(By ALBERT BROWN)

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