Six patterns, all of them common, all of them expensive. Here is each one and exactly what stands between it and you.
Our answer
A near-identical handle, the same picture, one letter different. The DM comes from the copy and the payment goes nowhere near the real person.
Every card links to the exact profile it belongs to, and a card whose link does not match its handle cannot be published. Compare the handle character by character before you pay anyone — here or anywhere.
Our answer
The account is gone but the middleman keeps selling posts on it. X answers HTTP 200 on a suspended profile, so a naive check sees nothing wrong.
We read the page content, not the status code, and the date of the last check is on the record page.
Our answer
A six-figure count, engagement from the same forty accounts, and a price based on the number.
We publish no counts at all, so there is no number here to inflate. At the introduction they open their own analytics for you — read the audience geography and the replies, never the total.
Our answer
Payment up front, then silence, then a blocked account.
We ask before we introduce, the terms are signed before anything goes up, and our invoice arrives after the proof pack — never before it. The payment schedule is part of those terms, in stages tied to what has actually been delivered.
Our answer
Delivered, screenshotted, invoiced — and deleted before the audience that matters wakes up.
The proof standard names how long a post stays up, and the terms say what an early deletion costs. That is agreed before the campaign, not argued afterwards.
Our answer
Names presented as clients who never signed anything, and a cut taken from both ends.
Nobody appears here without a written yes we can point at, and our fee sits on the project side only. The KOL’s rate is theirs.
How a helpful stranger takes a launch apart before lunch
◇ Reconstruction · Solana · 8 steps · 11 days, of which the last 30 minutes mattered
A full walkthrough: every step in order, what the evidence was at each one, and the single moment where it was still stoppable.
Walk through itEvery case on this board is made up. They are composites of patterns we see every week, written to show you the shape of the thing — not to accuse anyone. No real handle, project or wallet appears anywhere on this page.
A project paid the whole fee up front for three posts across a launch week. The first post went up late, the other two never appeared, and the replies stopped.
The tellEverything was agreed in chat. There was no written scope, no dates and no definition of what counted as delivered — so there was nothing to point at afterwards.
◈ What we doScope, dates and what counts as delivered are signed by both sides before anything goes up, and the payment schedule follows the delivered posts instead of running ahead of them.
Typical cost · A four-figure fee
Terms were agreed with a real, well-known account. Payment details arrived in a separate message with a fresh wallet address, and the transfer went out the same hour.
The tellThe address had no history and had never been shown publicly by the person it supposedly belonged to. Nothing tied that wallet to that account except the message itself.
◈ What we doPayment details never arrive from us in a chat message. They sit in the signed terms, and the account and the address are confirmed together before a single transfer is made.
Typical cost · The entire payment
A helpful stranger offered to run the launch: he would seed liquidity, line up the callers and handle the first hour. Half an hour after trading opened, the liquidity and the coordinated callers were gone at the same minute.
The tellOne person held the keys, the liquidity and the caller list, and nobody on the team could name where any of the three actually lived.
◈ What we doWe introduce voices and we run campaigns. We never take custody of a launch, of keys or of liquidity, and any offer that bundles those three into one helpful stranger is the pattern itself.
Typical cost · The launch, and the community with it
A market-making deal came with a large token loan “for depth”. The depth appeared, the chart looked healthy for weeks, and the loaned tokens were quietly sold into the campaign the project itself was paying for.
The tellThe loan had no reporting, no on-chain accounting and no clause about selling. The only proof of anything was a monthly screenshot.
◈ What we doNot our product — we do not do market making and never will. But if you are running a campaign next to a deal like this, get the reporting terms in writing before the campaign starts, not after the chart turns.
Typical cost · Months of runway
A middleman kept selling placements on an account that had been suspended weeks earlier. Invoices went out, slots were booked, and no post could ever have appeared.
The tellThe profile still returned a normal-looking page to anything that only checked whether it responded. Nobody had actually read it.
◈ What we doWe read the profile page itself rather than trusting that it answers, and the date of the last reading is printed on every record on this site.
Typical cost · A month of budget
The DM came from a handle with the same picture, the same bio and one letter swapped. Terms were agreed, the fee was paid, and the real person had never heard of the project.
The tellThe conversation started from a link in a reply, not from the profile. Nobody opened the real account and compared the two handles side by side.
◈ What we doEvery card here links to the exact profile it belongs to, and a card whose link does not match its handle cannot be published. Open the link from the card, never from a message.
Typical cost · The fee, twice over
If any of this happened to you, send it with the evidence: handles, dates, links, screenshots and what was agreed. We publish nothing without your permission and we never publish an accusation we cannot show.
Report a scamSend us the case with the evidence. We reply to every one within two working days.
◇ NextThe answer to the impersonation pattern, and what it would and would not prove.
◇ NextPeople who agreed in writing to be there, with the record on every card.