Social-media impersonation scam spike

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

Evidence summary #

v1-deferred. Applicable — multiple documented impersonation campaigns: Nov 2025 phishing in market comment sections (>$500k), Feb 2026 malicious bot repos (20+ fake repos on hijacked dev-protocol GitHub org). Signal would fire if wired up. Not in v1 monitoring scope.

Sources #

URL
A phishing scheme uncovered on Polymarket — users lost over $500,000CoinSpot — phishing scheme on Polymarket Nov 2025retrieved 2026-04-29

Methodology #

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

See the full factor methodology and distribution across all protocols →

rubric_version v1.7.0 protocol polymarket factor RD-F-109 score not_assessed collected_at 2026-04-29 16:25:39