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by Scaless 1598 days ago
It is not just crypto, it has been happening in gaming communities for a long time. Sometimes it's just fishing for more of their own page views, other times it it more malicious such as offering a trojaned game client that will steal your login details [0]. It is very cheap and easy to do because the communities are relatively small.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/95zk30/psa_first...