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1/ An investigation into how the influencer Crypto Rover ghosted a project he was paid to promote, mislead followers about his trading positions, and also his shills for pump and dump meme coins. Tweeted at 8:12 AM · Feb 20, 2024 2/ In May 2023 Rover was connected with a project was connected to help promote it. During negotiations Rover said he can “pump projects from 1/2m to 10m easy” They agreed on $10K + 1% of the supply for payment Rover address 0x4472d6969c0750dd7ba8e387d2b007a80794802f Tweeted at Feb 20 3/ After the payment was sent to Rover was where things started to go poorly. On multiple occasions Rover agreed he was going to start promoting the project with posts but never did. Tweeted at Feb 20 4/ Eventually Rover stopped responding. They become upset due to him not keeping up his end of the agreement and asked him to refund. Tweeted at Feb 20 5/ One month later he responded claiming he did not scam and cannot refund but will make a post in better market conditions and will take legal action if they call him out. It’s now February 2024 and no posts have been made. Tweeted at Feb 20 6/ To verify this address was Rover’s I mapped out the txns & found it tied to this post by matching the amounts. He said “I will hold this throughout the next bull run. I bet I can make an easy $1m from this investment account” Funny enough he sold shortly after. Tweeted at Feb 20 7/ Ten fresh addresses connected to Rover’s Oct 2023 post and the marketing payment bought up ~9% of the $STONED supply on May 15, 2023 He made 12+ posts on his X account and Telegram channel from May 16-17, 2023. Their team rug pulled and has not posted since May 18, 2023. Tweeted at Feb 20 8/ The 10 fresh addresses linked to him profited ~40 ETH from STONED with sells shortly after posts. The addresses sent the majority of ETH profits to the same Bybit deposit address Rover has transferred funds to many times. Bybit deposit address… Tweeted at Feb 20 9/ Here are examples of screenshots of Rover’s posts followed by sells from the addresses tied to him shortly after (UTC time zone) Tweeted at Feb 20 10/ I find this behavior concerning and do not think he can just claim he does not know what he is doing. As he stated earlier that he could “pump projects from 1/2m to 10m easy” He is not the only influencer doing this and we as a space need to stop letting them do this time… Tweeted at Feb 20 Update: After my post Crypto Rover deleted his Telegram channel, received Community Notes on four posts, and blocked me. Tweeted at 1h

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