Social-media impersonation scam spike
Sanctum's assessment for RD-F-109 — scored yellow on the v1.7.0 rubric. The evidence below is the curator's reasoning for this score.
Evidence summary #
Sanctum is a high-recognition Solana DeFi brand ($1.37B TVL, top-10 by TVL on Solana). Two confirmed malicious impersonator domains active: sanctumsol.com (registered 2024-05-27, trust score 0, flagged as malware by Gridinsoft and DNSFilter) and sanctums.network (registered 2024-05-29, trust score 0, flagged suspicious by IPQS, explicitly claims LST trading on Solana). Historical: July 2024 unstake.it domain loss used for phishing. Brand impersonation is a persistent elevated threat for this protocol. v1 deferred signal.
Sources #
- URLsanctumsol.com ScamAdviser reviewScamAdviser — sanctumsol.com trust score 0, registered 2024-05-27retrieved 2026-05-04
- sanctums.network ScamAdviser reviewScamAdviser — sanctums.network trust score 0, registered 2024-05-29retrieved 2026-05-04
Methodology #
Detect a sharp uptick in Discord/Telegram/X accounts impersonating the protocol team or announcing fake airdrops.
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