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And in other crypto scam news.

Do you even need deepfakes? The Guardian reports that while “Steven Reece Lewis” helped pull in millions of dollars as CEO of “Hyperverse,” a collapsed crypto / pyramid scheme, their investigation has been unable to turn up any evidence he exists.

Meanwhile, Web3 is Going Just Great points out a crypto wallet company exec who lost $125k due to a phishing link. Naturally, he’s trying to use the incident to promote his company’s wallet technology instead of reconsidering the whole venture.

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