While it is not even launched, Facebook's cryptocurrency is already used by crooks, who do not hesitate to set up online scams.
The Libra, cryptomonnaie giant Facebook whose launch is normally scheduled for the first half of 2020 attracts all desires, including darker. Indeed, the canvas is already full of dozens of pages, groups and fake accounts whose " mission " is to make fictitious pre-sales of the future virtual currency. Alerted, social networks have decided to react.
Buy-sell sites of Libras
The counterfeit Libra probably has not finished swarming. In addition to pages and groups from social networks, websites giving Internet users the illusion that they are currently surfing on official platforms were created in order to offer them to buy or sell Libras using their bank card, as reported by the Washington Post.
Facebook has already indicated that it has removed several pages and accounts that used the official logo of the virtual currency and that of the social network. Websites like buylivracoins.com are now reported. They offer the famous pre-purchases of Libras against real money or other cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin.
Scams that reinforce the uncertainties around Libra
If this profusion of scams at Libra is not so surprising, it is a blow for Facebook, which is under the full brunt of the remarks, uncertainties, and doubts of authorities and regulators around the world, who consider the virtual currency poses a potential threat to the global monetary and financial system.
Facebook does not seem to have been able to independently identify the scams related to its future cryptocurrency, which worries all the more the specialists. " Facebook has a very extensive global network and enormous financial power ... But Libra will only work as a medium of exchange if everyone can trust it. And this is the big question: will the trust give to Facebook be big enough? Eswar Prasad, a professor of economics at Cornell University, wonders.
US officials are still calling for a halt in the process of launching a cryptocurrency, the control of which could escape Facebook. Libra, start life already damn eventful.
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