A well-designed phishing site that offers the ‘Ethereum 2.0 PoS Mining’ service is starting to accept deposits from gullible investors. The scammers have guaranteed a minimum annual reward of 100% for staking 0.2 ETH. Investors can also become a ‘Node Operator’ with the new Ethereum for just $ 150,000. Apart from its technology entourage, this scam does not represent a primitive Ponzi scheme. Ethereum holders are required to send scammers their money (ranging from 0.2 ETH to 1024+ ETH) to get an unbelievably high periodic reward.
Ethereum 2.0 Ponzi Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Consensus
It should be added that the fraudsters pretend to use all of the Proof-of-Stake terminology. According to their statements, mysterious ‘PoS Mining’ is a lifetime investment opportunity.
This includes the following:
“Most Blockchains that work with the PoS algorithm allow you to set coins yourself. But usually, this will not allow you to make the most of your bet. Your bid must remain connected to the network around the clock. Even a short-term incorrect connection can interfere with the possibility of making money since the wallet will end up in the queue.”
With their services, you need just to stake your coins (by sending it to an ‘Ethereum PoS’ account) and wait for periodical rewards. If this scheme was real, it might look more like a Delegated Proof-of-Stake consensuses because the scammers say nothing about sharding, slots, epoch, and the initial stakes of 32 ETH, i.e., about all firmware attributes of actual Ethereum 2.0.
Why is this a project scam?
Apart from the true economic futility of such schemes, there are too many ‘red flags’ over this particular project.
- Ethereum 2.0 has not launched yet. All detailed predictions for its ‘hello world’ date were made before the COVID19 outbreak so that it may take longer than a year.
- No staking in Ethereum 2.0 is available yet. The actual Ethereum network utilizes a Proof-of-Work consensus, and miners, not stakers, process its transactions.
- No credible asset in crypto can guarantee an investor an annual return of 100% as a staking reward. According to Staking Rewards analytical tool, the average yearly payout in this room is 14.5%.
- The project misleads users by publishing real Ethereum Foundation developer links. For example, the scam project’s ‘GitHub’ source code is that of Ethereum.org.
- The scammers use the ‘Donations’ address of MyEtherWallet, claiming that this is their address with a balance of 400 ETH.
Unfortunately, these fraudsters ask users to confirm their URLs by e-mail and to enable 2FA so they may also steal a sensitive amount of private data.
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