Traders duped out of $1.8 million in a fake MetaMask governance token scheme

A listing for MASK on DEXTools, showing a blue checkmark by the nameSpoofed verification badge on DEXTools (attribution)
Scammers took advantage of rumors that MetaMask, a popular Ethereum , would be . The scammers created a fake MetaMask token, $MASK, and managed to inject code into the popular DEXTools trading app to show the token as verified. The token reached over $9 million in traded volume before scammers pulled the , making off with about $1.8 million worth of Ethereum.