No, there isn’t an official Lego-coin, that’s a scam

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Last Updated on 7 October 2024 by CryptoTips.eu

This weekend, the official website of Lego, the world-famous Danish toy manufacturer, was hacked. Instead of the original homepage promoting the latest Lego box, it featured a recommendation for a ‘Lego coin’ that you could buy. Anyone who clicked on it was of course guided to a fake website where you could pay for ‘Lego coins’ (which do not exist) with Ethereum. It is unclear how much the scammers took.

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Trump

At the beginning of September, this new trick in which hackers take over the homepage of a popular website was implemented in an easier version.

Donald Trump promoted his latest crypto project around that period. World Liberty Financial’s page was empty, but Trump’s family had already prepared a page on X and Telegram already to promote it. You can of course buy advertising on those channels.

Hackers thus rented a banner on World Liberty Financial’s Telegram page before the coin was officially launched (as of today, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency is still unavailable).

No fewer than 70,000 Trump supporters clicked on it and were led away to their fake website that promised an airdrop if they provided their crypto wallet.

Refresh

Now it was Lego’s turn (which doesn’t really refresh its own social media channels every day). Hackers took over the page and promised Lego fans that they would be first in line to purchase a new (and officially non-existent) Lego coin with Ethereum. Of course there is no such thing and the page was changed again after 75 minutes.

It is clear that the scammers achieved their goal and were able to entice some clickers (because Lego put out an official statement afterwards). It is not known at this time how much they captured.

Jeroen Kok

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