a16z’s Packy McCormick and Coinbase’s Scott Shapiro were among those targeted by phishing scammers who used their accounts to spread malicious crypto phishing links on X.
A third-party auto-posting service — known as IFTTT (If This Then That) — has been blamed for a new flood of scam posts on X, which encouraged potential victims to send Solana (SOL) to a wallet address for a meme token called “$PACKY.”
On March 21, the X accounts of crypto influencers such as a16z adviser Packy McCormick, Coinbase product director Scott Shapiro, Twitch co-founder Justin Kan, and others had their accounts co-piloted by scammers promoting the spurious token.
McCormick said “This is not me. Account hacked. Working to get it fixed. Don’t click any links from me or (obviously) send money to a random address.”
