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Cryptobro makes a new coin to "help FOSS projects". Predictable scam rush ensues.

connortumbleson.com The disappointing tea.xyz

I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.

The disappointing tea.xyz

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15238521

Yet another "brilliant" scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

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  • this asshole pushed this dumb and bad scheme last year too.

    it's not the previous scam "gitcoin", it's a fresh reimplementation of the bad idea.

    he was the Original Founder Of Homebrew!!! who left ages ago, and Homebrew are busy disclaiming him as often as is necessary

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