Was Kylian Mbappé Twitter Account Really Hacked to Promote a Crypto Scam ?

Soccer stars promoting scam coins, it’s not new, a couple months ago Leo Messi and Ronaldinho promoted a scam project.

I thought memecoins were about memes

please explain to me what’s so meme about water 🤣 pic.twitter.com/suqfUeBKUH

— joji (@metaversejoji) July 8, 2024

This time it’s Kylian Mbappé’s turn. Another Solana coin was again promoted through the social media of the stars. This time Mbappe.

But are these stars really getting hacked? Or the social media managers are the ones taking advantage of the social media reach to make a lot of money defrauding the followers?

The token promoted by Mbappe X profile had a $4 million volume, and had a characteristic scam curve.

This guy who trades #MEMEcoins like buying lottery tickets finally hit the 4,330x jackpot!

He spent 0.2 $SOL($29) to buy $MBAPPE and sold it 3 minutes later for 866.13 $SOL($125.16K), a 4,330x return!

Over the past month, he traded 251 MEMEcoins, investing 0.1 $SOL, 0.2 $SOL,… pic.twitter.com/hreNVUcyEF

— Lookonchain (@lookonchain) August 29, 2024