REPORTED SCAM
@gateioama (X)
https://x.com/gateioama
HIGH risk
SOCIAL
1 report
✓ Verified by GACS · gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5
Elevated riskGACS Risk Score
Composite score from 5 signals below.
- In GACS scam database+40
- High severity+12
- 1 community report+5
- Active 108+ days+5
- Confirmed by seed_exchange_typos+5
Why we flagged this
Reported by 1 userActive 108dsocialseed_exchange_typos
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GACS verdict: High risk — avoid
- Reported by the GACS community; not yet multi-source confirmed.
- Severity classified as HIGH based on harm pattern.
- 1 independent user report on file.
- Cross-referenced against external feed: seed_exchange_typos.
- Tactic category: social.
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Case summary
Auto-seeded impersonator pattern of gateio. Handle "@gateioama" is structurally identical to the real "gateio" — classic impersonation pattern. Verify on the official site, not from a DM or reply. ; not yet confirmed by community reports.
Originally published on GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety. Verify the latest status of this report at https://gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5. Browse the full public scam registry, see live scam alerts, or report a scam. © GACS · Licensed CC BY 4.0 with attribution to gacs.app.
Pattern: Exchange / brand impersonation
The operator registers a handle that wraps a real brand name in an extra word — support, giveaway, recovery, airdrop, official — so it looks like a department of the company. Victims searching for help find the fake account before the real one, and the conversation moves straight to direct messages where there is no moderation and no record.
How to recognise it
- The genuine account never bolts words like "official", "support" or "airdrop" onto its handle
- Account is far younger than the brand it claims to represent
- First move is always to take you into a private chat
- Asks for a seed phrase, a screen-share, or a "verification" transfer
Public references
Sources and method
- GACS impersonation sweep
Generated by our brand-impersonation sweep, which enumerates the handle shapes fraudsters build around major exchange names and checks whether each one exists and is active.
- 1 community report
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Identifiers flagged
- Websitehttps://x.com/gateioama
- Also known asgateioama · @gateioama · imp:gateio
Timeline
- First reported
- 6/7/2026
- Last activity
- 6/7/2026
- Source
- seed_exchange_typos
- Status
- Reported scam
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GACS. (2026). @gateioama (X) — GACS scam report. GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety. Retrieved September 24, 2026, from https://gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5
- MLA
"@gateioama (X) — GACS scam report." GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety, GACS, 2026, https://gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5. Accessed September 24, 2026.
- Chicago
GACS. "@gateioama (X) — GACS scam report." GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety. Accessed September 24, 2026. https://gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5.
- BibTeX
@misc{gacs_scam_gateioama_x_bea7e5, author = {GACS}, title = {@gateioama (X) — GACS scam report}, howpublished = {GACS — Global Anti-Crime & Safety}, year = {2026}, note = {Accessed: September 24, 2026}, url = {https://gacs.app/scam/gateioama-x-bea7e5} }
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