Twitter allowing obvious scams being promoted(imgur.com)

Twitter allowing obvious scams being promoted

http://imgur.com/puCsgh7

3 comments

soneca8 anni fa

It is the second I see today. I am guessing the modus operandi is that the scammers hack a verified account, change the name to Elon Musk and promote a tweet saying it is giving away 10,000 bitcoins.

From what I see in some replies, they ask the victim to give then 0.5 bitcoin promising to give 5 btc back.

They use some other hacked verified accounts (with name unchanged), to reply the tweet stating that it worked for them

mtmail8 anni fa

And it might be temporarily because when I view https://twitter.com/farahmenswear/ now the name is unchanged, no profile picture. Seven hours ago several Musk/Tesla related photos got posted which would be unusual for a fashion brand and doesn't fit their other tweets.

2upmedia8 anni fa

This is actually a problem across multiple social networks. On Facebook and Instagram there's been a lot of scams recently with people selling stuff way below retail. They're complete scams. I reported it to Facebook through their mobile UI and they didn't really investigate it.

andymoe8 anni fa

Yeah I flag these constantly. Been going on for a good year at least.