CZ receives fake ‘Grok’ coins amid new wave of Elon Musk scam tokens

Date: 2025-04-21

Scammers are once again capitalizing on the popularity of Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok, with fake tokens again emerging as part of potential phishing attacks.A wallet linked to former Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao received 90 million fake Grok (GROK) tokens on April 21, according to blockchain security firm PeckShield.The tokens are “likely a scam,” since the “deployer distributed it to multiple addresses via multisend,” PeckShield said.Source: PeckShieldAlertThe X platform’s Grok AI chatbot has no official cryptocurrency and no plans to launch one in the future.Related: Bitcoin up 33% since 2024 halving as institutions disrupt cycleFake Grok-related tokens first emerged in 2023 when a scammer deployed an ERC-20 Grok t...

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