In the latest crypto news that surround our Bitcoin Scams section, we have new malicious attempts by Twitter users who are reportedly creating verified Twitter accounts that have been hacked to impersonate Elon Musk.
After compromising the accounts, the scammers change the profile names and picture in order to pose as Elon Musk, and start posting tweets that say the Tesla CEO was conducting “the biggest” crypto giveaway in the world for those who use “Bitcoic” (read Bitcoin) and provided a link to participate in the giveaway.
One of the verified (hacked) accounts even managed to get away with 0,000 by people who believed the crypto scam and posed as the Tesla CEO.
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In order to skirt the security measures, the scammers changed one of the characters in the name while maintaining a display name that appeared to be “Elon Musk” at a glance, precluding Twitter from flagging the amount.
Elon Musk is not the first individual in the crypto and tech space that has been impersonated. The CEO of Telegram, Pavel Durov, earlier this year tweeted a warning in which he told his followers that the messaging app was expeiencing downtime due to the server clusters overheating – offering crypto to users as a “thank you” for [their] support.
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