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My question is how the scammers managed to pull this off? I mean using the official email of TradingView to spread their scam.
TradingView has ever disclaimed all airdrops, but this one coming from their real domain is surprising. Initially, when I saw this, I thought you might have mistakenly not checked the domain email sender, but indeed you did and thanks for putting it across.
On this, my takes are two, and the first is that we shouldn't totally conclude that this is not from TravingView itself. At times, some companies with that reputation take the backseat to observing the situation and mailing their lists might be the first step to the awareness.
For the second take, if this is indeed from scammers, then it's possible that TradeView has been compromised either by an insider or it was hacked. And since there was no such hacking news, it's possible that TradeView insider work is involved or the company itself is involved but just pretending.
Also, the domain "trade.io" that I could find online which matches the $TRADE token doesn't show any information, but just placed the domain name's text there.