Top Five Crypto Rug Pull Scams

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Rug pulls are a crypto scam where a project's team or founder abandons the project and suddenly disappears, taking all of the invested funds with them.

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Rug pulls usually happen with projects that raise a lot of money in little time and claim to give 'too good to be true' returns. Here are the top five rug pull scams in the history of crypto:

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OneCoin

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Thodex

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MAP NFTs

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Squid Game Token

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AnubisDAO

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