{"id":36990,"date":"2025-07-11T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.tradesilvania.com\/vatican-bank-denies-links-to-fake-vatican-chamber-token-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:39:13","slug":"vatican-bank-denies-links-to-fake-vatican-chamber-token-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tradesilvania.com\/en\/news\/vatican-bank-denies-links-to-fake-vatican-chamber-token-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican Bank Denies Links to Fake Vatican Chamber Token Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tradesilvania.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Vatican-Bank-Denies-Links-to-Fake-Vatican-Chamber-Token-Scheme.png\" alt=\"Vatican Bank Denies Links to Fake Vatican Chamber Token Scheme\" \/>\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Vatican Bank, officially known as the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), has denied any involvement with a fake crypto project called Vatican Chamber Token (VCT). According to Cointelegraph, the project promoted a phishing website claiming to offer access to the &#8220;Vatican Chamber of Trade,&#8221; an institution that does not exist.<\/p>\n<p>The website even displayed the real phone number of the Vatican Bank and stated it was accepting new members &#8220;for the first time in a generation,&#8221; offering supposed benefits such as private investor introductions, custodial services, and access to a VCT token presale.<\/p>\n<p>A Vatican Bank representative confirmed to Cointelegraph that the project is a scam and that the bank has no affiliation with it. The investigation also revealed that a fake link referring to the &#8220;Vatican Chamber of Trade&#8221; was recently added to the bank&#8217;s Wikipedia page, flagged as vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities warn the public about the risk of fraud and remind that the Vatican Bank does not engage in cryptocurrency projects or token sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>            The Vatican Bank, officially known as the Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR), has denied any involvement with a fake crypto project called Vatican Chamber Token (VCT). According to Cointelegraph, the project promoted a phishing website claiming to offer access to the &quot;Vatican Chamber of Trade,&quot; an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[99,98],"class_list":["post-36990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-en","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vatican Bank Denies Links to Fake Vatican Chamber Token Scheme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Vatican Bank warns about Vatican Chamber Token, a fake crypto project illegally using the Vatican Bank name.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link 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