Sources close to the Venezuelan government have told CriptoNoticias that Petro, cryptocurrency allegedly backed by oil that will be launched by the Venezuelan government, despite being currently in private pre-sale does not yet have an official intelligent contract. It is for this reason that the issue of tokens has not happened and the figures that have been shared by the President of the Republic refer exclusively to the intention of purchase by investors.
This information reaffirms what Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said on February 20 during the launch of Petro on national television, where he stated that "there is an intention to purchase in the pre-sale of 4.777 billion yuan, which means in euros, 596 million euros, $ 735 million. "
In view of the little official information provided and the initial setbacks that have arisen around the Petro, the social networks and the blockchains of Ethereum and NEM have served as a scenario for the emergence of potential scams that seek to rip off investors by posing as fraudulent by the pre-sale of the government cryptoactive.
After announcing the launch of the Petro, possible addresses of the blockchain Ethereum and NEM that would contain the token related to the Petro have been published on the web. According to our source, these would be potential scams because, as mentioned, the Petro contract has not been developed.
If the word "Petro" is searched in the Ethereum explorer, Etherscan, more than 21 tokens called Petro will appear and at least 11 to the same TTR that was defined by the Venezuelan government.
Even false Twitter accounts have been generated that pass themselves off as official sources, where they state that the Petro is already being marketed in the Ethereum decentralized exchange house, EtherDelta, selling some of the aforementioned false tokens.
In another of these alleged scams have taken the trouble to create a vanity address of Bitcoin, adding the name of Chavez to the address with a view to "receive all contributions related to the Petro" and offering help through private messages: "Contact us by Direct Message ", they state.
Since the launch of Petro's white paper, the government has made several mistakes such as publishing several editions of its official document, as well as changing the information on the blockchain platform that Petro will generate on the day of its launch, without mention the recurring difficulties presented when registering on your platform.
All this has favored the global confusion that exists about the Petro and has provided an environment conducive to the emergence of potential scams, which have become common in the ecosystem of cryptocurrencies, with malicious people usurping the identity of celebrities such as Elon Musk or well-known companies in the ecosystem.
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