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Celebrity Token Schemes: Unveiling Sahil Arora's Scam

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by Giorgi Kostiuk

a year ago


  1. Strategy and Mechanism of the Scams
  2. Financial Gains and Key Players
  3. Discrepancies in Earnings Estimations

  4. In 2024, Dubai-based investor Sahil Arora executed a series of high-profile token launch schemes, leveraging connections and renowned figures to attract attention.

    Strategy and Mechanism of the Scams

    Sahil Arora successfully garnered attention for his tokens by employing well-known figures such as Caitlyn Jenner, Floyd Mayweather, Amber Rose, Sunny Leone, and Iggy Azalea. The developed platform Pump Fun enabled him to organize a campaign aimed at notable figures. Arora directly messaged celebrities, offering significant payments for promoting the token. The core mechanism of the scams involved manipulating the token's price through attention and celebrity endorsements. When the token's price surged due to the hype and celebrity tweets, Arora, holding a substantial portion of the tokens, sold off his assets, leading to a sharp price drop and leaving other investors with worthless tokens.

    Financial Gains and Key Players

    Bubblemaps tracked over 40 crypto addresses associated with Arora, which were used to manage and manipulate the token supply. Typically, Arora held between 25-40% of the token's total supply in various addresses. After the token launch, he consolidated these holdings and transferred funds to a main wallet, identified as 7Ci23i82. Funds were regularly moved to centralized exchanges. In his operations, Arora used celebrities to create hype and maintain high token prices.

    Discrepancies in Earnings Estimations

    Bubblemaps reported that Arora made around $30 million from these schemes in 2024. Their figures indicated monthly earnings as follows: $3 million in January, $1.8 million in February, $3.2 million in March, $2.5 million in April, $4.8 million in May, $2.5 million in June, $2 million in July, and a staggering $6.6 million in August. However, independent blockchain analyst ZachXBT disputes these figures, claiming they were inflated due to incorrectly attributing a Poloniex wallet to Arora. ZachXBT recalculated Arora's earnings and suggested the actual figure was likely between $2 and $3 million.

    Sahil Arora's celebrity token schemes highlight the risk involved in investing in cryptocurrencies through hype and endorsements by famous individuals. Such schemes raise questions about the credibility and legitimacy of projects in the market.

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