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Break the bad Star Dean Norris says that his X account was hacked as part of a scam developed to promote a piece of memes – A cryptocurrency Often inspired by Internet trends – called “$ Dean”.
Norris, 61, who played Hank Schrader In the drama awarded the Emmy Award 16 times, said after the actor said he was alerted the social media scam by friends.
“I decided to launch my own cryptocurrency called $ Dean”, an article of fraudsters was published on Norris X account with an external link.
The token $ Dean reached a market capitalization of up to $ 8.35 million on Saturday, according to Dex Screener data. Monday morning, more than 24 hours after a video published by Norris confirming that it was hacked, the market capitalization of $ Dean Token fell to $ 51,000.
After X users began to ask if the publications were legitimate, the pirates downloaded a apparently photoshopped photograph of Norris holding a notebook with the handwritten note “$ dean” and the launch date of the memes: January 25, 2025.
In a painful turn, the pirates would have bought a five-second message from Cameo de Norris, a video sharing platform that provides tailor-made and paid messages from a well-known person.
In the clip, Norris says: “Hey, it’s me Dean … It’s January 25, I declare that it is real”, seems involuntarily confirming the validity of the cryptocurrency company.
When subscribers asked Norris’s X account for more evidence, fraudsters shared Norris’ video to his flow.
Other messages have shared photographs generated by Norris AI smiling when they are superimposed with “$ Dean Friends” and frowning with the words “Everyone”.
After seeming to be locked up with his X account, late Saturday, Norris went to Instagram to calmly alert her two million followers that his account had been hacked, and the crooks “put on the cryptocurrency”.
Around 11 p.m. Saturday evening, Norris seemed to have found access to his X account after having recorded a complaint with the social media platform.
“I was hacked !!! A whole false scam !! “, He wrote.
In a video published four minutes later, Norris said: “Hey, it’s Dean Norris – In fact – and all this crazy crypto is crazy was a false complete scam. I was hacked and I just recovered it … whatever the F ** K who ignores it. »»
Norris added that he rarely uses X and said that he did not have a telegram account.
He also called people on Reddit who accused him of launching a crypto token and using it to “pump and unload” – a practice that sees criminals extract investors to buy actions to inflate their price before selling Their actions – tokens for a profit.
“Thank you a ** holes on Reddit who called me all kinds of S ** T for something I did not do. Go f ** k yourself.
This is not the first time that Norris has been hacked on the social media platform. In September, his account tweeted about another scam, $ shrader.
“I was hacked. Nothing too bad, send it false “please retweet this”. Probably about the crypto or something, “he wrote on September 26.
“Anyway, sorry to everyone who may have received a fake direct message from me to ask me for a retweet.”
The independent contacted Norris and X for more information.