If I hadn't taken a pause and thought it necessary to go check the official page and that of exchanges mentioned by the project team for confirmation, I'd have fallen victim to scammers.
(How can we stop this as it's getting out of hand)
My second observation is this...why are there different prices on $XION pre-trade on different exchanges? I recall the exchange mentioning only Bitget and Bybit for launchpool so, should one trust the other exchanges?
First of all, scammer are getting out of hand and scammers also getting smarter nowadays I actually fell like couple of times but luckily I never approved their smart contract because if you approved once you are gonna be doomed. Just make sure to double check the link before making any sign or check.
Second it called "pre-trade" because the exchange is IOU or Exchange owe you the money they didnt have the token yet only sell basically an AIR

of course the price gonna be different from one and another because user didnt trade the real token and cannot deposit or withdraw or onchain transcation