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New Scam: Account on the EOS network pretending to be account of the Kraken.com Exchange
New Scam: Account on the EOS network pretending to be account of the Kraken.com Exchange

Scam Prevention

Dario Cesaro avatar
Written by Dario Cesaro
Updated over a year ago

Please be aware that the EOS Account: https://bloks.io/account/krakankreken is committing fraud on the EOS Mainnet:

Please be aware that the EOS Account: https://bloks.io/account/krakunkraken is committing fraud on the EOS Mainnet:

Imposer Account


The account displayed above (named: "krakunkraken") is pretending to be the account (named: "krakenkraken") wich can be seen below:

Official Kraken.com EOS Account



Their strategy is to send a small amount of $EOS to the EOS accounts they are targeting, pretending to be the account of the Kraken.com exchange wich uses the account https://bloks.io/account/krakenkraken to receive $EOS that are being send to them.

Kraken.com also requires you to include a memo that includes a personal identification number.

As you can see in the screenshots above, the scammers know this and also use a number in the memo of the transaction that shows up in your account history, in order to trick users to include a memo in the transaction.

They do this because wallets like Anchor Wallet give a warning if somebody tries to send funds to an exchange without including a memo.

When transferring funds to an account, please be extremely careful. Provide the right account name and personal identification number, and double-check that the account name was written correctly.

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Make sure you are up-to-date with all the ongoing EOS scams! Stay safe.


Author: Sebastian Beyer

Editors: Markus Hinrichs; Randall Roland

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