Heavy metal band Metallica became the latest victim of a cryptocurrency scam. Their social media accounts were hacked to promote a Solana-based memecoin called $METAL. The hackers managed to pull 550 SOL before the coin's value dropped by 95%. Despite the drop, the token still has an intact LP. The incident, which occurred late Tuesday night, has raised concerns about the growing trend of celebrities being targeted to promote scam crypto tokens. The community has pointed fingers at the infamous scammer Sahil Arora as a possible culprit.
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$METAL | Crypto Scam: After Rapper 50 Cent, Heavy Metal Band @Metallica's Social Media Hacked To Promote Solana-Based Memecoin @Ricardswo posted late Tuesday night about the scam🫳🏽 https://t.co/5efRnxwsin
Heavy metal band Metallica became the latest victim of a cryptocurrency scam, and the community is pointing fingers at the infamous scammer Sahil Arora https://t.co/vZSRUHworm
Heavy metal titans @metallica are the latest celebs to apparently have their Twitter account hacked to promote a pump-and-dump meme coin launch. Click to read: https://t.co/eVNsVv8war
Metallica Joins Growing List of Hacked Celebs Promoting Scam Crypto Tokens ► https://t.co/nZiNQZkxQ7 https://t.co/nZiNQZkxQ7
I leave my desk for 45 minutes and @Metallica gets hacked, drops a $METAL shitcoin, it runs, hacker sold the top they pulled 550-ish $SOL, it drops 95% (I know, shocking) but still actually has an intact LP. CTO inbound. Bottom line - the likelihood of a massive A-lister… https://t.co/xha6gZeNi1
LOL WUT?!? I'm getting massive errors on the @Metallica website, as in - it won't load at all. Thinking either it's real and being slashdotted to death, or it's hacked. Also, this is the first celebrity memecoin where I've actually cared about who is behind it, seeing as I've… https://t.co/0Jx7tKc7xF
STOP BUYING CELEB SCAM COINS.
Metallica dropping a meme coin 😅 The graphics are pretty well done if this is a hack Not so “yeahhhhh” IYKYK https://t.co/LRzrFJStm0
.@Metallica HACKED🚨🚨🚨 https://t.co/nKMrK6ITvi