Monad’s Airdrop Alert: Fake Telegram Ads? Scammers Desperate! 😂

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Ladies and gentlemen, the crypto world is in chaos! Or at least, the part of it that follows Monad, a blockchain project that’s either the future of finance or a very fancy dad joke. Co-Founder Keone Hon, a man who clearly hasn’t slept since 2023, just warned the community that scammers have somehow managed to sneak fake ads into the *official* Telegram channel. Because nothing says “trust” like letting con artists hijack your announcement feed like it’s a hostile takeover at a family reunion. 🤡

Hon took to X (formerly Twitter) to cry wolf, explaining that scammers paid Telegram to push ads into a channel that’s *supposed* to be sacred ground for official updates. Imagine if your boss started letting random strangers send emails from your company Slack. “Crazy,” Hon said, “that Telegram will push content directly into a channel that otherwise only contains content from one party.” Spoiler: That one party is not the FBI. 🚨

Telegram sells ads targeted at a single public channel. Scammers have purchased ads on the Monad Announcements telegram channel.

Crazy that telegram will push content directly into a channel that otherwise only contains content from one party. We are working on getting this…

“Crazy,” indeed. Telegram’s ad system is now the punchline of every cybersecurity lecture. Hon urged users to ignore the ads, avoid clicking links, and “triple-verify” everything. Because nothing says “urgent” like a phishing scam that’s so lazy it probably forgot its own password. 🙃

“Always Triple-Verify” (Because You’re Probably a Mark)

The fake ads? They had links pretending to be Monad’s “claim portal.” Classic! Hon’s advice: Don’t click. Don’t panic. The only real site is claim.monad.xyz, which will be open for three weeks. That’s 420 minutes of pure, unadulterated crypto hope. Or despair. Depends on your risk tolerance. 🎲

Scammers are exploiting the airdrop frenzy like it’s a Black Friday sale at a cryptocurrency-themed Walmart. Meanwhile, MON is already trading on Hyperliquid at $0.07, implying a $7 billion valuation. Because why let a little thing like a launch stop a good speculative frenzy? 🚀

Monad, a Layer-1 blockchain that promises 10,000 TPS (transactions per second), is now under the microscope. Telegram’s ad policies supposedly ban phishing and spam, but clearly, someone forgot to tell the scammers. Or the interns. Or the coffee machine. 🤷

So, as the airdrop looms, remember: Trust no one. Not your uncle’s “hot tip,” not that suspicious link, and definitely not Telegram’s ad system. Stay safe, stay skeptical, and if all else fails-just blame it on the robots. 🤖💸

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2025-10-14 15:38