Coin Bureau|5月 21, 2026 13:50
The FBI literally built a FAKE CRYPTO token to catch SCAMMERS.. and EVERYONE fell for it.
The token was called NexFundAI.
It had everything a REAL project has: a token, website, whitepaper, tokenomics, 100 billion supply, and promises of passive income.
Except none of it was real.
Behind the scenes, the “founders” were undercover FBI agents trying to catch market makers who say YES to pumping it.
According to DOJ, several firms agreed.
1. Gotbit - The FBI asked how fast they could push NexFundAI’s volume to $1M/day. Gotbit said "6 hours." Cost? About $200.
2. MyTrade - The operator literally described the psychology on a recorded call: "make the chart look like a roller coaster, retail jumps in, we dump."
3. CLS Global - Bots generated 98% of its trading volume. They'd even sync fake spikes with fake news drops.
4. ZM Quant - Ran bots that fired off 10 to 20 trades per minute across dozens of wallets, making wash trading look organic.
When the FBI finally shut the operation down, they seized $25M in one day and indicted 18 people.
But that's NOT all.
The story got worse when the FBI found real people had bought the fake token.
Retail saw the volume spike, assumed the chart was bullish, and aped in.
So now, the FBI had to launch a restitution portal to pay back real victims who lost money.
And then somehow, the story got even more insane.
Within 24 hours of the announcement, someone cloned the FBI's contract, launched a copycat token, and walked away with around $127,000…
At that point, even the FBI’s fake token immediately became the blueprint for another scam.
This STORY just became the most crypto thing that has ever happened.(Coin Bureau)
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