About FraudCoins.com

The problem we set out to solve

Every cryptocurrency exchange, from the largest centralized platforms to the smallest decentralized pools, earns money the same way: trading fees. A coin that is destined to collapse generates exactly the same fee revenue on the way up — and often more on the way down — as a legitimate project. That means the people deciding which coins get a prominent listing have a direct financial incentive to look the other way. Nowhere on a typical listing does it say “warning: ten wallets control 90% of this token’s supply and can dump it at any moment.”

The result is a market where the riskiest assets are presented with the same clean charts, green candles and confident tickers as the safest ones. A newcomer has no easy way to tell the difference. By the time the warning signs are obvious — a 99% collapse, a frozen contract, a deleted Telegram — it is far too late.

We built FraudCoins.com to put the warning label back on. Not based on rumour, sentiment or a paid “rating,” but on what the public blockchain itself shows about who actually controls each coin.

What makes our data different

Most “crypto risk” sites recycle the same third-party market feed: price, market cap, 24-hour volume. That data is useful, but it is also what every scam coin looks perfectly normal on, right up until the moment it doesn’t. We go a layer deeper.

Every day at midnight New York time, our scanner pulls the actual on-chain holder list for every coin above $50 million in market cap, across seven blockchains. It strips out the wallets that are supposed to be large — exchange custody, staking contracts, liquidity pools, bridges, burn addresses — and measures how much of the remaining supply sits in just the top ten private wallets. When that number crosses 50%, a single coordinated party can dictate the price: pin it artificially high, drain leveraged traders through funding fees, then sell everything at once. It is one of the defining manipulation patterns of this market cycle, and it is almost invisible unless you read the chain directly.

As far as we know, no other public site publishes this measurement daily, for free, with a full audit trail of which wallets were counted and which were excluded. That is the core of what we do.

What we are — and what we are not

We are a research and education tool. Our risk scores, flags and category labels are automated, opinion-based indicators generated from public market and on-chain data. They describe statistical patterns associated with elevated risk. They are not statements of fact, not financial advice, and not allegations that any project, team or person has done anything illegal. A high score means a coin shows data patterns our model associates with danger — it does not mean a crime has occurred.

We are also not a substitute for your own research. Concentration, price collapse and fake volume are powerful warning signs, but they cannot capture everything — and even a coin with a clean profile can lose value. Use us as one input, read our methodology so you understand exactly what each number means, and never invest more than you can afford to lose.

How to use the site

The homepage ranks the coins our daily scan currently considers highest-risk. Each token checker lets you paste any contract address and run the same holder analysis on demand. The daily alerts feed shows coins newly flagged each day, and our guides explain the scam patterns in plain language so you can recognise them yourself. If you find the site useful, you can support it — it is funded by ads and small donations, not by the projects we cover.

Contact & corrections

If you represent a project that appears on the site and believe a flag relies on inaccurate data, email legal@fraudcoins.com. We review good-faith requests to correct factual data errors. For everything else, the same address reaches us.