MrBeast team addresses MrBeast Token \u201cscam\u201d targeting fans YouTube: MrBeastThe team behind MrBeast have responded to fans getting \u201cscammed\u201d by fake fan tokens that bear his name, saying its like \u201cchasing ghosts\u201d when reporting them. Over the last year or so, the internet has become increasingly infatuated by cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the like as people look to hop onto the Web3 wave as early adopters. Plenty of content creators and personalities have gotten involved with investments of their own and the increased interest in blockchain technology has landed some of the internet\u2019s biggest names in hot water. In some cases, content creators have come under fire for promoting investments in coins that have led to significant financial loss. Though, in the case of MrBeast, his name has been used to promote tokens that he has no say in, and it\u2019s becoming a problem. MrBeast team responds to \u201cfake\u201d fan token scam If you\u2019ve heard about the MrBeast Fan Token, you could be forgiven for thinking that the YouTuber is involved with it. These tokens have promoted everything he\u2019s about \u2013 including giving back to the community. However, he has no involvement in them, and some have recently crashed in value, leading to fans losing a fair chunk of change. \u201cFake MrBeast fan tokens are popping up every week. I\u2019m sure some of you have seen one or two of these fake MrBeast tokens recently,\u201d MrBeast\u2019s manager Reed Duchscher posted on LinkedIn. \u201cObviously, Jimmy and I hate seeing his fans getting scammed, but other than reporting them there\u2019s not much we can do to stop these situations from happening. We\u2019ve tried going the legal route, but for the most part it\u2019s like chasing ghosts.\u201d Duchscher noted that they aren\u2019t \u201cexactly sure what the solution is\u201d but the value of the tokens is plummeting, which leaves fans out of pocket after being duped. It\u2019s another example of being wary about what streamers are linked to. Unless they\u2019re promoting it themselves, they\u2019re probably not involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MrBeast team addresses MrBeast Token \u201cscam\u201d targeting fans YouTube: MrBeastThe team behind MrBeast have responded to fans getting \u201cscammed\u201d by fake fan tokens that bear his name, saying its like \u201cchasing ghosts\u201d when reporting them. Over the last year or so, the internet has become increasingly infatuated by cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and the like as people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}