The staff behind a crypto-based cellular recreation has faked a Wall Road Journal (WSJ) article that claimed the mission’s founder was arrested trying to smuggle 20,000 condoms into Singapore.
“Robin Hood game-based meme coin” DoginHood shared a screenshot of the supposed article to its X (previously Twitter) account on Saturday. The ‘story’ reported that the mission’s CEO had been arrested by Singaporean customs officers at 4pm SGT and was “now in custody.”
It went on to assert that, “Authorities believe the condoms were for a crypto conference in the city-state this week.”
DoginHood mentioned, “We already reached out to our legal team and our contacts in Singapore trying to solve the situation.”
The picture shared on X includes a blurred-out WSJ emblem and comparable formatting to the famend publication. Nevertheless, the outlet hasn’t printed something on any crypto founder smuggling condoms, and the faux headline isn’t capitalized in the usual WSJ type.
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Some X customers tried to again up the faux story with one citing Singaporean regulation on condom imports.
DoginHood is one other clicker recreation on the Telegram messaging app that provides little gameplay past mashing the display screen to earn in-game foreign money. The faux story seems to be piggybacking on the upcoming Singapore crypto convention.
One other crypto mission, NEAR protocol, opted for a ‘fake news as PR’ technique when it claimed it had been hacked earlier this month. Nevertheless, it turned out that claims of a cyberattack story had been simply to hype its upcoming Hackathon occasion. It didn’t go down effectively with all people.
“Pretending that your socials have been hacked in order do a 4chan/Max Headroom style gimmick doesn’t make you marketing savvy, it makes you dumb as fuck for normalizing breaches,” one X person wrote.
One other mentioned, “We wish you were actually hacked so we wouldn’t have had to read this.”
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