{"id":3768,"date":"2024-12-05T09:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:32:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T09:32:33","slug":"hawk-tuah-girl-accused-of-scamming-crypto-buyers-after-newly-launched-meme-coin-pumps-and-dumps-victims-contemplate-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hawk Tuah&#8217; Girl Accused Of Scamming Crypto Buyers After Newly-Launched Meme Coin Pumps And Dumps, Victims Contemplate Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A meme coin launched by viral influencer <strong>Haliey Welch<\/strong> of the &#8220;Hawk Tuah&#8221; fame became a subject of controversy on Wednesday after it pumped and dumped, eroding millions of dollars in market value in quick time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened<\/strong>: HAWK, launched on <strong>Solana <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/sol\/usd\">SOL<\/a>)-based <strong>Meteora <\/strong>on<strong> <\/strong>Wednesday, swiftly gained a market valuation of almost $425 million before plummeting to $30 million within five hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/dexscreener.com\/solana\/exygvxvrvujjryo65vyuhlaccxhwyztkqa7jxqit2tvr\">according <\/a>to Dexscreener data.<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, the meme coin was valued slightly higher at $48 million, but still 90% down from the initial frenzy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sudden downfall sparked outrage in the cryptocurrency community.<\/p>\n<p>An X user with the pseudonym <strong>JIGGA.5mbK <\/strong>revealed that their $35,000 investment in the coin was reduced to $2,000 after 10 minutes of buying.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a huge fan of Hawk Tuah but you took my life savings,&#8221; the user said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The trader also alleged insider trading. &#8220;You didn&#8217;t mention that you were going to buy 97% of the supply and sell it almost immediately to make a large profit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalieyWelchX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HalieyWelchX<\/a>  My $35,000 that I purchased of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24Hawk&amp;src=ctag&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$Hawk<\/a> is now $2,000 after 10 minutes of buying. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/general\/entertainment\/24\/12\/42333397\/hawk-tuah-girl-accused-of-scamming-crypto-buyers-after-newly-launched-meme-coin-pumps-and-d\" alt=\"'Hawk\" tuah girl accused of scamming crypto buyers after newly-launched meme coin pumps and dumps victims contemplate legal action>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A meme coin launched by viral influencer Haliey Welch of the &#8220;Hawk Tuah&#8221; fame became a subject of controversy on Wednesday after it pumped and dumped, eroding millions of dollars in market value in quick time. What happened: HAWK, launched on Solana (CRYPTO: SOL)-based Meteora on Wednesday, swiftly gained a market valuation of almost $425 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}