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Several Verified Twitter Users Hacked in Latest Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Scam,

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Several Verified Twitter Users Hacked in Latest Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Scam,
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If you’ve been on Twitter at all over the past two or three years, you have probably noticed a lot of accounts talking about an apparent cryptocurrency giveaway scams being conducted by the richest man in the world namely Elon Musk. Now that Musk has officially been declared the richest person in the world, this has resulted in a new wave of scams many of which have involved verified accounts being hacked something that gives the scam a lot more legitimacy and makes people even more likely to believe in them than might have been the case otherwise.

The latest wave of this scam has resulted in over half a million dollars being stolen from various users. The nature of the scam is quite insidious, since it basically tells users that if they give the scammer a little bit of money they would end up getting ten times that money thanks to the investing strategies being put in place. Now, Elon Musk is one of the most famous people in the world. He is known for his extravagant wealth, and using his name makes it so that people might just be a little more inclined towards giving their money away since they would assume that someone like Musk is going to be responsible with it.

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Another verified account is being used to spread Musk themed scam: https://t.co/WLt3RaYvuI
Right now there is no legit tweet can be found from that account, only the scams…
The “Global News” name and profile image was seen being used here too: https://t.co/o7yyH202Da pic.twitter.com/3XLOBVSP8H

— MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) January 16, 2021

Anyway seriously, Twitter should have some policy for verified accounts like X time inactivity = account locked, only can login after verifying that who tries to login is the real owner & not some random skids.
5 years, like in this case, should be much more than enough for that. https://t.co/sIhqJ5fCP7

— MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) January 16, 2021

Another verified account is being used to spread Musk themed scam: https://t.co/2oy2pgEo4g
Last legit activity from the account was in 2018… pic.twitter.com/Ftf22bqNql

— MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) January 15, 2021

The only problem is that Musk has nothing to do with this scam, it’s only his name that’s being used for this sort of thing and the fact that verified accounts have been hacked is leading to a lot more losses this time around. The fact that this scam still manages to target so many victims is a sign that more people need to be educated about potential scams online to prevent them from having too much of an impact.

Read next: Report shows huge increase in the percentage of spam calls during the year 2020





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