Social-media impersonation scam spike

BENQI's assessment for RD-F-109 — scored gray on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.

Evidence summary #

Social-media impersonation scam-spike monitoring requires social-listening vendor tooling not implemented. BENQI has active X (@BenqiFinance, @benqinomics), Discord (~9,800 members), and Telegram. The bnqi.fi phishing domain (assessed under F161 Cat 11) is evidence that impersonation attempts target BENQI, but no X/Discord scam-account spike observed in public data as of 2026-05-16. Signal is production pipeline signal not yet implemented. Pipeline not implemented.

Sources #

URL
BENQI official X account — active, no impersonation spike observedhttps://twitter.com/benqifinanceretrieved 2026-05-16

Methodology #

Detect a sharp uptick in Discord/Telegram/X accounts impersonating the protocol team or announcing fake airdrops.

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rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol benqi factor RD-F-109 score gray collected_at 2026-05-16 11:02:12