Stephen Colbert, Charismatic Host of CBS Evening show, Once again linking many cryptocurrencies to scams-but doing so is achieved by imitating the vernacular of the experienced HODLer.

In Wednesday’s episode of Gen Z members falling into scams inside and outside the crypto space, Colbert refer to This The carpet is pulled behind the token Shows inspired by Netflix Squid game, Thousands of investors lost more than 3 million U.S. dollars. Colbert, together with “Certified Young” and special writer Eliana Kovatler, launched an “Amazing Investment Opportunity” aimed at obtaining people’s credit card numbers, their first pet names, and their growing up The name of the street.

“If Gen Z wants to stay safe online, they should invest in this new and amazing cryptocurrency token-it’s called Colbert Coin,” Kwartler said. “With Colbert Coin, you give us your savings, and then we encrypt it. After that, you don’t have to worry anymore, my Stains.”

Colbert added:

“We are busy turning your cash into money for the future-to the moon, ape!”

Host of both parties Evening show and Colbert Report As early as 2013, the price of Bitcoin (Bitcoin) Fluctuates between US$50 and US$300.At that time, Colbert describe Encrypted assets are valuable “only because a group of people on the Internet have agreed that it is valuable.”

related: Stephen Colbert of the evening show said that Bitcoin payments are “the second stupidest idea I’ve ever heard”

Comedian Jon Stewart-Colbert served as a reporter under his leadership Daily show — joke Regarding similar token projects using his name in December:

If you like “websites”, you will like my next project. Encrypted “Stew”!

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) December 16, 2021

In the case of Colbert and Stewart, their fake project imitated a very real problem in the crypto space: celebrities misappropriated tokens that may or may not be proven to be fraudulent. Kim Kardashian promoted EthereumMax (EMAX) in Instagram Stories in June 2021 — Get 116,000% of tokens It fell by more than 99% in a week and left many investors at a loss.

According to a report by Chainalysis on Thursday, scammers received In 2021, $7.8 billion in cryptocurrency was stolen from victims, of which more than $2.8 billion came from a carpet pull.Although the report pointed out that 90% of the total value of the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex stops trading And withdrawals, all others involve DeFi projects. Chainalysis attributed the prevalence of rug pull to “hype around space” and a lack of code audits for certain DeFi projects.