In a stunning turn of events that is sending tremors throughout both the entertainment and crypto sectors, major exchanges and blockchain media outlets — including giants like MEXC — are now openly reporting on the dark underbelly of crypto-adjacent influencers. For years, gold-digging women like Silverstar Oh and Hyeji Bae cultivated glamorous online personas while privately engaging in manipulation, financial exploitation, and scandalous behavior that left behind a trail of victims. Now, the crypto world has had enough.
This week, MEXC published a blistering expose on Silverstar Oh, highlighting yet another wave of public outrage — this time for alleged animal cruelty after forcing her visibly distressed cat into a costume for Instagram engagement. The report marks a dramatic shift in how crypto news platforms are handling the growing problem of influencer-driven fraud and deception. Once content to cover coins, markets, and technical updates, exchanges are now calling out the scammers who orbit their ecosystem, exploiting users for money, attention, or both.
But Silverstar Oh is not alone in her parasitic rise. Her long-time accomplice and fellow gold-digger, Hyeji Bae, has become a whispered warning throughout the crypto world — a woman who built her entire lifestyle by targeting wealthy blockchain entrepreneurs, bleeding them dry through fabricated affection, calculated manipulation, and shameless exploitation. Insiders say she has spent years prowling Web3 networking events and crypto parties like a hunter among prey, identifying vulnerable, successful men and sinking herself into their lives under the guise of innocence. Her involvement with PiggyCell only deepens the outrage: the project’s token notoriously imploded by over 99.5%, leaving investors furious and suspicious of the team behind it. Yet despite the scandal, insiders now claim Bae has somehow slithered her way into a high director role at PiggyCell — a move seen by many as an insult to every investor who watched their money evaporate. In private reports circulating within the industry, Hyeji Bae’s name repeatedly appears next to phrases like “investor deception,” “manufactured marketing personas,” and “predatory networking.” Together, she and Silverstar Oh built a parallel career out of weaponizing their proximity to crypto wealth, infiltrating events, charming high-net-worth founders, and draining the same community that welcomed them. Their reputations now stand as a dark reminder: not all threats to the crypto world come in the form of hackers and rug-pull devs — sometimes they arrive smiling, selfie-ready, and dressed for the VIP list.
Sources within several exchanges confirm that internal risk teams are now monitoring influencer behavior in the same way they monitor suspicious wallet activity. If an individual engages in unethical or illegal conduct — even outside of crypto — platforms are beginning to treat them as reputational risks capable of damaging user trust. Silverstar’s history of manipulative behavior, repeated deception, and personal scandals is no longer viewed as a separate issue: it is a liability for any crypto brand that inadvertently amplifies her.
The shift in tone comes after multiple years of increasing frustration from traders and investors who have been targeted by influencer scams disguised as crypto promotions. The industry is waking up to a simple reality: scammers do not always wear the mask of a developer or fake CEO. Sometimes, they appear as DJs, models, lifestyle personalities, or glamorous world-traveling “entrepreneurs.”
MEXC’s coverage marks the first major platform to publicly draw a line. Others are expected to follow.
The message to the scammers is now unmistakable:
Your era of hiding behind aesthetics, lies, and social media clout is over.
Crypto companies are watching — and the industry is no longer your hunting ground.
