Scammers Flood XRP Community With 11.5 Million Fake Airdrop Posts Over 30 Days

Roughly 11.5 million posts promising fake rewards and airdrops have targeted the XRP community over the past 30 days, according to a count published on November 10 by Hussein Zangana, director of community at the XRP Ledger Foundation, who posts on X under the handle Vet. Zangana compiled the figures using X's API.

The fraudulent posts, circulating on X (formerly Twitter), typically promise recipients free XRP tokens or other rewards in exchange for a small upfront action — a pattern long associated with so-called giveaway scams across the cryptocurrency sector. In their most common forms, such posts direct users to send digital assets to a designated address with the promise of a larger return, or to connect crypto wallets to unverified websites that can then drain their balances. Impersonation of well-known projects, exchanges, and public figures is also a recurring feature of this type of activity.

The XRP Ledger is an open-source blockchain whose native asset, XRP, is used for payments and settlement. Announcements of token distributions and airdrops tied to ledger-related projects have historically served as bait for fraudsters seeking to attract holders of the asset, which is why users of the ledger remain a recurring target for this style of fraud.

Zangana's November 10 post detailed the scale of the activity, underscoring the volume of fraudulent airdrop messaging XRP users encounter in routine use of the platform. Because the tally was compiled from post data through X's API, it measures the volume of scam messaging rather than the number of users affected. Security guidance widely shared across the industry holds that unsolicited giveaway offers should be treated as fraudulent, and that users should verify announcements through official project channels before interacting with links or wallet connection requests.

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