Over 1 million comments reported promoting scam tokens using Dan Bongino Rumble videos

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Scammers are targeting high-profile figures with fake token schemes

Scammers are now using videos from Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino to promote fake tokens on Telegram, according to a new report from Open Measures. The report specifically warns social media users about crypto scams involving high-profile right-wing figures.

Bongino, known as one of the earliest financial backers of Rumble, has become a prime target for scammers on the platform. The scammers are using his popularity with the right-wing audience to carry out their malicious activities. The former law enforcement officer’s name is now used to promote fake cryptocurrency groups on Telegram.

Scammers use Bongino’s video to carry out illicit activities

The scammers behind the crypto projects purporting to use images and videos of Bongino typically use Telegram for their communications. This is because the application has minimal content moderation, making it very easy to stay anonymous compared to other platforms.

According to the report, scammers spam the comment sections on Rumble videos with Telegram links pretending to be Bongino or claiming they know him. Most of the URLs posted in the comment section contained phrases like “Contact_DanBongino” and “DanBonginoo.”

Open Measures discovered that such links to Telegram groups associated with Bongino have been posted to more than 1.3 million Rumble comment sections. The perpetrators carried out this activity between November 2022 and November 2025, with more than two-thirds of the incidents posted between June 2024 and February 2025.

During the peak of the links appearing in comment sections on Rumble, they represented about 8% of the total comments on the platform. Open Measures identified more than 1,896 unique URLs that appeared in 100 or more comments each. Of the total, 267 URLs impersonated Bongino, who joined the current U.S. administration in February 2025, and they appeared in over 184,000 Rumble comments.

Beyond Bongino, there were other URLs containing the names of other popular figures in the United States. For instance, URLs referencing Donald Trump Jr. were seen in more than 36,000 comments, also containing references to other members of the Trump family.

Additionally, links namedropping the Tate brothers and Russell Brand also appeared in about 18,000 comments each.

Names referenced have ties to the current administration

Most of the names referenced in the links are conservatives or have ties to United States President Donald Trump or his administration, however loose the ties are. They include conservative personalities like Tucker Carlson, Benny Johnson, and political operative Steve Bannon. It remains unknown what happens to those who clicked the links that led to the Telegram groups.

However, Open Measures predicts that the groups are likely about digital assets. They also noted that it is highly possible that these groups are run by scammers trying to convince people to invest their funds into some sort of financial scheme. It is also likely that these scammers used Bongino, Trump Jr., Andrew Tate, and others because they are affiliated with crypto.

Andrew Tate, for instance, has promoted crypto in the past, launching his memecoin. Trump Jr. has also been active in the crypto industry, urging people to invest heavily in digital assets. He also has ties to several crypto projects through his family. Meanwhile, President Trump has several crypto ventures, including his meme coin, which declined significantly from its all-time high shortly after launch.