THE FBI BUILT A FAKE CRYPTO TOKEN, LISTED IT ON UNISWAP, AND HIRED REAL The FBI created an actual ERC-20 token called NexFundAI. 100 billion token supply. A professional website. A whitepaper promising "passive income through AI-powered investing." It looked exactly like every other crypto project. Because that was the point. Undercover agents posed as the founding team, then reached out to professional market-making firms with one ask: "We need you to fake our trading volume." Every single firm said yes.
MyTrade — their founder called himself "the mastermind." On a recorded FBI video call, he explained the psychology of the scam with zero hesitation: "We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride. That's where people jump in. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit." Said it on camera. To federal agents. Smiled through it.
CLS Global — Dubai-based. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume. When asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements, they said: absolutely. ZM Quant — bots running 10–20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets designed to look organic. All of them knew it was fraud. All of them did it anyway. All of it was recorded.
And the clients were even worse. Saitama — a meme coin that hit a $7.5 billion market cap. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats, sent "pump it" memes to each other while moving the price, then dumped on retail investors. $7.5 billion. Built entirely on manufactured momentum. Every penny of real money came from people who thought the chart was organic. One Saitama founder left and started Robo Inu. Used Gotbit again. Another launched VZZN. Same playbook. $ETH $BTC $XRP
The Downfall of the "Crypto King": From Lambos to Kidnappings 🏎️⚖️
In the dead of night in December 2022, the flashy lifestyle of 25-year-old Aiden Pleterski took a dark turn. The self-proclaimed "Crypto King" was snatched off the streets of downtown Toronto.
The motive? Revenge.
Police reports reveal that Pleterski was allegedly kidnapped by one of his own disgruntled investors. After three days of captivity, he was released under a chilling ultimatum: find the money, and find it fast. While investors claim he burned millions on luxury cars and private jets, Pleterski filed for bankruptcy, leaving a trail of empty wallets and "what-ifs."$BTC $ETH $XRP
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