I took part in airdrop project called 'padthai' which exit scammed just around a week ago, they had anonymous team and steps were pretty much similar to what you described. I lost 0.2 eth in it.
Oh man.. I am sorry for your loss! Do you have some more information concerning the scam (social media accounts, website etc.)? Is this the contract address?
PADTHAI.finance:
https://etherscan.io/token/0xB35A8a7fcbb0465Af7165e8C9C954beA68924b0FIf you want to share some more information, I could add the scam to the DeFi-scam list i created:
DeFi-Scams - Big All-In-One-Thread
Same here. It is really hard to understand because many DeFi coins are completely useless. It's just speculation of highly hyped shit where the only task is to find a bigger idiot who is paying more for it. That reminds me of an useless
Ethereum Token ICO called "useless Ethereum Token" which collected around 200k USD in an ICO in 2017 and is now, no surprise - totally worthless.
Oh yea, I remember that one. It's still listed on CMC... what a shame.
Source: https://coinmarketcap.com/de/currencies/useless-ethereum-token/Obviously zero markets and zero volume. But that's not particularly surprising when you bought a coin called the "Useless Ethereum Token".