According to COINOTAG, Shiba Inu community researcher Mazrael documented 137 scam tokens falsely claiming the SHIB deployer sent them, a scheme to impersonate pseudonymous founder Ryoshi. The fake tokens generated over 9,131 fraudulent transfers touching more than 2,500 wallets. None of the transfers were signed by the actual deployer address 0xB8f2...FA08, which has remained inactive since October 2021. The counterfeits included tokens branded as APE, ShibChain, SHIB DAO, METARUFFY, and three fake Shibarium tokens. Mazrael's verification method: examine the "From" field in the transaction record on a block explorer, which reveals the actual signer—never the deployer.

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