French international soccer striker Kylian Mbappé filed a complaint on March 31 for the unauthorized use of his proper name on a cryptocurrency scam network, which is being investigated past local authorities.

According to the newspaper L'Équipe, the soccer role player, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain, is being impersonated to use his proper name in advertizing campaigns for the alleged scam that involves a cryptocurrency acquisition scheme.

These advertizement posts cited false statements by Mbappé, where he allegedly claimed that the formula offered past the network was miraculous and that people could go a millionaire in two or three months.

Simulated ad manufactures impersonating Mbappé

The crypto scam article that started to circulating was titled "The latest Kylian Mbappé investment that put pressure on experts and scared big banks."

Anne-Sophie Coulbois, head of the Central Function for the Suppression of Financial Crime with the French Judicial Police force, stated the following to local newspapers regarding the modus operandi of this type of scams:

"These pages are used to impersonate future victims, save your contact details, then an alleged vendor calls them to explicate the procedure for investing, but there is never a production that is invested in."

Mbappé'south Twitter business relationship hacked in 2022 past a crypto-related scam

Information technology is not the beginning fourth dimension that the French star is affected by alleged crypto scams that apply his name without permission.

Cointelegraph Brazil reported terminal April, that Mbappé'south official Twitter account had been hacked with tweets where he encouraged his followers to make investments in crypto scams.

The Financial Markets Authorisation of French republic said that in 2022 they received virtually i,100 complaints almost this type of scam, which concluded up stealing 55.5 million euros.