After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Western world started to support Ukraine financially. While donation campaigns are started in many countries for Ukraine, one of these campaigns continues in the crypto money world. Donations made through crypto money, which started last week, have reached more than $ 50 million today.
Donations made by sending them to official cryptocurrency wallet addresses shared by Ukraine were normally made without expecting anything in return. But Ukraine has decided to make a comeback to cryptocurrency donors. While Ukraine has not shared any details about the airdrop yet, things seem to be mixed for the moment.
Ukraine’s Airdrop campaign may have been the opportunity for scammers:
After Ukraine’s official airdrop announcement on Twitter, Ethereum blockchain explorer Etherscan announced on Wednesday. It showed that 7 billion Peaceful World (WORLD) tokens were created and sent to the official cryptocurrency donation address of Ukraine. After that, it was seen that Ukraine’s wallet sent 1 million Peaceful World tokens to seed the liquidity pool.
In the past few minutes, it has been seen that WORLD tokens have started to be distributed from the account named ‘Ukraine Crypto Donation’. As of writing this article, more than 1,400 crypto money wallets have been transferred. However, there was a development in Etherscan in the following minutes.
Etherscan marked the address in question, which appears to have sent WORLD tokens, as suspicious and warned people that the address could be used for spam or fraud. Blockchain experts also made a statement on the subject. Experts explained that such a transaction could also be triggered by third parties, and that the Ukrainian wallet has never directly interacted with Peaceful World tokens. This means that the Airdrop plan in question may have been used as an opportunity by fraudsters.
Ukraine has not shared any news about the airdrop yet. The last statement made yesterday morning included the Airdrop announcement and announced that snapshots would be taken on March 3 at 19.00. We will continue to report as we progress.
Ukraine canceled the Airdrop campaign:
Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov announced that they canceled the Airdrop campaign they had started. The Airdrops we mentioned above are indeed the work of scammers. The Minister’s statement was as follows:
“After careful consideration we have decided to cancel the airdrop. Every day there are more and more people who want to help Ukraine fight aggression. Instead, soon to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces. We will announce NFTs. We have NO plans to issue any tradable tokens”
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