The fraudulent platform disguised as the popular MemeCoin LaunchPad “Four.meme” has been promoted to the top of Google Search Results with a phishing campaign designed to engage in malicious cloned websites to deceive users .
Phishing attacks have become common in crypto, and are evolving with current industry trends and advances in technology that exploits people. The latest entity to become a tool to mislead unsuspecting victims is “Four.Meme,” a MemeCoin LaunchPad from Binance SmartChain Network (BSC).
“four.meme” phishing attacks highlighted by cybersecurity analyst @Realscamsniffer In a tweet from X, we focused on climbing malicious sites in our search rankings. The phishing site used Google Ads to place the website at the top of the first page of the search results, seducing unsuspecting users who have fallen victim to fraud.
Phishing Alert: Targeted users with @four_meme_google search!
assets protect assets – avoid simple mistakes. Be safe and vigilant! pic.twitter.com/qn9e89d2gi– Scared Sniffer | Web3 Anti-Scam (@RealScamsNiffer) February 18, 2025
4.Meme platform will be attractive for crypto criminals
This latest 4.meme-linked phishing attempt comes about a week after the launchpad was It was misusedmore than $183,000 in assets have been stolen. In response, the platform said, “To ensure security, the token LP launched with @PancakesWap will be temporarily suspended and resumed once the development team has completed the fix, so the new liquidity of the project will be made. We had to temporarily suspend the creation of the pool. On-chain trading is working fine.”
The Four.meme team reassures the community that internal funding is safe and “continue to monitor the situation and provide timely updates to the community.”
This incident is not quarantined. There have been steady reports of cryptographic fraud and other crypto-related cybercrimes.
In 2024, the North Korean hacking group Lazaro Group was involved in several famous robbers, resulting in a loss of $1.3 billion and roughly a third of reported global crypto hacks.
In January 2025, New York Attorney General Letitia James revealed plans to fraudulent more than $2.2 million in components. In that case, the scammers promoted high-paid, remote jobs to mislead the victims and transferred funds to crypto accounts.
The impact of these phishing and other crypto hacks exceeds the immediate financial losses. Companies face reputational damage, operational disruption and market trust. For 4.meme, the BSC-based platform had to pause the creation of a new liquidity pool while trying to fix the exploit.
Cryptocriminals use authority figures in social engineering scams
February 2025, Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Won’s The image was used in X’s crypto fraud ads. The promotion mistakenly claimed that she was jailed for discussing crypto investments, aiming to deceive users to click on malicious links.
BBC Broadcasting Station Nick Robinson’s The X account was hacked and used to promote today’s scam Crypto$. In the post, the hackers praised Donald Trump’s business insights for launching previously successful Memocoin as part of his strategy to link the association with the US president.
Like Donald Trump, Argentine President Javier Mairi was involved in the launch of $ Libra Memecoin on February 14, 2025. The South American national president is currently facing intense scrutiny to promote memocoin, which is being sold as a mechanism to stimulate Argentina. The economy is funded by small and medium-sized enterprises.
$Libra was worth short-lived before it collapsed, causing major economic losses for investors. Critics labeled the experiment as a certified “ragpur” scam. There, promoters and insiders made significant profits, leaving the majority of investors with useless assets.
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