Kanye West Exposes X Account Hacks Targeting Celebrities as Fake Scams

Kanye West is back on X, and you'll never guess what happened next.

Kanye West has revealed that he was offered $2 million to promote a fraudulent "ye currency" on X.

In a screenshot shared on Friday, an unidentified contact reached out to West, now known as Ye, with the proposal.

"I was proposed 2 million dollars to scam my community Those left of it I said no and stopped working with their person who proposed it," Ye wrote in the post.

According to the message, Ye would receive $750,000 upfront as part of the proposed deal. An additional $1.25 million would be disbursed 16 hours after the post went live on X.

Part of the deal was that the promotional post must remain active for eight hours. The contact also instructed him to post "my account was hacked, the post was not me" after the eight-hour window.

The message chillingly concluded with the statement that the company soliciting this promotion "will be scamming the public out of tens of millions of dollars."

Ye said he turned down the $2 million offer, claiming he wouldn’t "scam my community." However, his post raised questions about the truth behind previous X account hacks targeting celebrities, which seemingly shared a similar scheme.

"Are you telling me all the big accounts getting ‘hacked’ and posting a memecoin over the last several months are fake?????" one user wrote.

"So the celebrity 'hacks' are presumably fake?" another user commented.

"Ye just exposed all the celebrities that claimed they were hacked scams on X," another user added.

Several celebrities' X accounts have been hacked to promote Solana meme coins. Last December, Drake's account was hacked to promote a Solana-based memecoin called $ANITA. The scam generated $5 million in trading volume before being exposed and removed.