REALITY stars including Joey Essex have hit out amid claims they were tricked into promoting a £500,000 crypto coin con. The former Towie regular agreed to promote EATS Coin which was linked to the food delivery app CryptoEats.
Joey, 31, was joined for a launch party at a top West London club last week by the ex-Radio 1 DJ Charlie Sloth, 40, and Love Island star Belle Hassan, 23.
Between them they have millions of followers on Instagram. But yesterday all traces of CryptoEats had vanished, the firm’s website and social media accounts were down and anyone trying to sell EATS coins got error messages.
It is thought people had invested £500,000 in the delivery app, pitched as a rival to UberEats where users could pay for grub using crypto.
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