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Cryptocurrency detective exposes KOL "Crypto Rover", repeatedly pumping and dumping, turning 670,000 Twitter followers into retail investors.

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Cryptocurrency detective exposes KOL "Crypto Rover", repeatedly pumping and dumping, turning 670,000 Twitter followers into retail investors.

Crypto detective ZachXBT exposed Crypto Rover on the evening of the 20th, involving multiple malicious behaviors such as concealing partnerships and engaging in pump-and-dump schemes. However, Rover continues to post on Twitter today seemingly unaffected and has already blocked ZachXBT.

KOL "Crypto Rover"

Crypto Rover frequently shares cryptocurrency information on Twitter, mostly about coin prices. He is also the founder of CryptoSea, a project claiming to be a trading bot, with a large following in the community:

Uncovering Crypto Rover by ZachXBT

Cryptocurrency detective ZachXBT pointed out on the 20th that Rover was involved in malicious activities such as concealing sponsorships and pump and dump schemes.

Crypto Rover: "I can easily increase market cap by $5 million"

Rover once claimed during a collaboration with a project that he could easily increase the market cap from $5 million to tens of millions of dollars.

The project also agreed to pay Rover $10,000 + 1% token supply.

Rover's address can be found here.

Crypto Rover deceives project partner, never publishes sponsored posts

ZachXBT pointed out that Rover later claimed several times that he would publish related tweets but failed to do so, prompting the project partner to ask for a refund.

Rover stated that he did not engage in fraudulent behavior and could not issue a refund. He threatened legal action if reported by the project partner.

Crypto Rover sells tokens after promoting them multiple times

Crypto Rover had recommended several low-market-cap tokens, claiming to buy and hold long-term, but promptly sold the tokens behind the scenes.

This includes:

  • XTP

  • RLB

  • STONED

Crypto Rover continues to post as usual, deleting a large number of comments

ZachXBT stated:

He is not the only KOL doing this. The crypto space needs to stop allowing these individuals to dump on their followers repeatedly.

Crypto community member @philippbtc also noted that following ZachXBT's expose, Rover's YouTube channel was flooded with negative comments, all of which were deleted.

Meanwhile, Rover continues to post on Twitter today seemingly unaffected, and has already blocked ZachXBT.