Just a few hours after the scam bots on Twitter targeted and took over the Pope Francis’ profile to promote a fake Bitcoin giveaway, Elon Musk was again provoked while taking a playful jab at a now-ubiquitous Twitter scam.
Musk responded to a thread under a tweet from Techmeme and referenced Twitter’s largest purge of scam bots. He said that he wants Ethereum now – even if it is a scam.
At this point, I want ETH even if it is a scam
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 28, 2018
However, a fake “Elon Musk” handle took this chance to promote a purported crypto giveaway from the Tesla founder. The tweet was deleted soon after it went live.
The key takeaway here is that many famous people and high-profile accounts on Twitter are constantly targeted by the scam giveaway bot network. The network also uses retweets and favorites (likes) to push the fraudulent reply to the top of the threat so that it appeared immediately after Musk’s original tweet, creating the impression that he again replied to his own tweet in a thread.
If clicked, the scam takeaway will navigate you to a website called “https://www.musk-surprise.info” with a Medium article that appears as it was written by Musk outlines the format of the popular scam and lures people to join offering both BTC and ETH giveaways – as well as a Tesla Model 3 to one lucky winner after “verifying” their wallet addresses and sending a crypto sum.
Obviously, the “verification” is how the scammers take the user wallets and steal their funds. What matters is that more and more cybercriminals are using advanced tactics and focus on creating several duplicate (high-profile) accounts to lure people and promote scam content.
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