People Are Falling For To A Greater Extent Than Or Less Of The Dumbest Scams We've Always Seen...

I've been sympathetic to victims of cryptocurrency scams inwards the past. Things similar Bitconnect or USI-Tech, as well as hijacked ICO email lists giving out the incorrect wallet addresses - those are things I tin come across how individual novel to cryptocurrency could accept innocently conk a victim to. 

But the materials i'm close to demo yous today gets no compassion from me.  If yous barbarous for it, you're an idiot - who volition likely lose your money ane agency or about other anyway. 

Here's how they work.  Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 twitter concern human relationship amongst the mention as well as photograph of a celebrity basically tweets something along the lines of "send me $100 as well as i'll ship yous $1000 back". Yes, it's genuinely this simple.

Check out this tweet from Elon Musk...

And John McAfee has joined inwards the money giveaways every bit well...

Even the founder of Ethereum wants to hand away Ethereum - all yous demand to do, is ship him about Ethereum...

Earlier today Elon Musk responded to questions bespeak why in that place were as well as then many impostor accounts of his, patently amongst Twitter totally asleep at the cycle when it comes to terminating them.  Musk says he contacted Twitter's CEO "but it’s withal going" he says.

All this would endure funny - if they weren't genuinely working! The wallet that imitation Elon Musk is directing people to ship Bitcoin to - has nearly $14,000 USD inwards it now.

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Author: Ross Davis
San Francisco News Desk