💀 Rug Tales: Short Stories of Sudden Goodbyes

Your rug story matters. Help others spot the signs — drop your testimony below. We'll review your submission and feature it in our archive.

Message

"I once got rugged for $11k. I thought I could trust the dev we had been in contact for two months, but I still got rugged.🥲 Never want to talk about it again…."

"Bought Book of Rugs for laughs. Now my wife’s hooked! Clear plans, real team. No rug pull here, just moon vibes."

"Book of Rugs is my memecoin jam. Active devs, actual utility. No pump-and-dump nonsense. I’m in for the long haul."

"Book of Rugs è fantastico! 😎 Devs attivi, tutto chiaro! 🚀 No truffe, solo vibrazioni vere! Il mio caffè finanzia questo memecoin! ☕💰"

"lright, listen up, fam! If you’re deep in the memecoin trenches like me, you’ve been rugged more times than you can count—devs ghosting, tokens tanking, and your wallet crying in the corner. But hold up, because Book of Rugs is flipping the script. This ain’t your average pump-and-dump—it’s the memecoin that won’t pull the rug from under you. Here’s why it’s got my diamond hands hodling tight."

"Before launchpad were born, we used to fall a lot into honeypots, I used to buy and sell 1$ like a degenerate before entering. Intil one day i was confident with my dolla back the dev rugged my 200$ 😆"

"Same! I would never buy a coin without a sample $1 buy. The I would check if it were a honey pot and new coins would say no, but I didn’t know about open source. So would get fucked again when it wasn’t open source so I always check that now too

"Well funny story 😁 when the launchpads started to gain traction specially 2021 i had the biggest pain in the ass on BSC launchpad, i forgot the name of the launchpad, but i remember the name of the mfer devs 'Simon and something, a canadian dude and another indian, at some point on that launchpad was around 25-30m$ tvl. Because was the time with locked tockens and have vesting. So they smash all the community for millions, fkn millions. 😅"

"Me too bro, my first experience was in 2020, I lost 5000 Cardano via a link on Yt where i had the impression was the official video of Charles Hoskinson 😁😁 But was a mfer scammer, so was the most stupid scam, send few cardano and u'll receive some airdrops from Cardano Team 😅😅 ... Yes exactly that one, i fkn cried all night for that 5000 cardano because was around 2000$ at that point 😅😅. I lost at that time 7000$"

"Before Base I used to degen on Solana full time, 50 is like a weekly number 😂"

"I have a friend who received a settlement payout for an injury. He invested over 100k into 2 or 3 coins that all rugged and was left with 4K."

"That’s the stuff of nightmares. I don’t know what that is called but should be part of the book."

"Who remembers his first honeypot?"

Not the first but I remember aping something I thought Crash was pushing, turned out to be a fake group and lost like 500 being too naive 🤣🔫

"Omg I do. Back in November one of the first SkiPepe, I was a noob and put in 3k all in one buy and when I went to sell it sent it all to the dev address. I was completely devestated."

"This isn't my first honeypot, but it's the one that has stuck with me the longest. i honestly don't even recall the coin, it was supposedly a virtuals play that had just bonded. i got the high volume alert via X and saw it was still at a low mc so i aped $750 into it..at 1M mc this will be $7500, and at 10M mc...I texted my brother who i had just introduced to crypto and suggested he ape asap, and he did, $250 which was legit size for him. my brother called me 5 minutes later saying he had never received the tokens. "don't sweat it" i told him, phantom wallet is being glitchy. then i noticed my tokens were missing as well. i hopped on basescan and saw that they had been transferred instantly from my wallet to the dev. i look at dexscreener again...in my haste as a new investoor i hadn't even checked the Token Sniffer in dex to see if the conteact was legit. not only am i out $750, but I have to venmo my brother the $250 cuz i felt so bad for giving him such shitty advice. i think his trust in crypto is likely forever shaken. i hope he still trusts me, lol."

"The knowledge I have learned here has kept me from getting rugged about 15 times now."

"So many Ruggers in this world, finally a book to help s. Tired of getting rugged. Lots of knowledge here."

"I was rugged by the same team of 2 french people, one week apart, Fabiene and Animan, that used the Anouk Ricard meta - those were pro ruggers with a lot of money."