Apparently, Posing Every Mo Elon Musk On Twitter Together With Running 'Bitcoin Giveaway' Scams Actually Pays Off - $179,284 At In 1 Lawsuit Sits Inward The Scammers Wallet!

This time, the scam was at to the lowest degree a flake to a greater extent than creative than green - the scammers firstly hacked a existent verified account, giving them command over a username that has the bluish "verified" depository fiscal establishment stand upwardly for score side past times side to it.

Then, they switched the delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship call to "Elon Musk" as well as tweeted out the following:

The tweet that went out, honor how the actual delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship is @patheuk

But they didn't halt at that spot - thence (using a stolen credit carte du jour nosotros tin safely assume) they purchased advertising from Twitter as well as gave the post around extra advertisement - causing tens of thousands of extra people to come across it.

The scam itself was the green bait of "send around Bitcoin i'll shipping fifty-fifty to a greater extent than back" - which from a verified delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship or non - is e'er an obvious scam. So, honestly it's a flake difficult to experience sad for the 'victims' here.

Now, a await into the wallet the site directed people to shipping funds to (1KAGE12gtYVfizicQSDQmnPHYfA29bu8Da) is sitting amongst a picayune over 28 BTC inwards it! Valued at most $180k.

A await into the wallet of the scammer. 

Elon Musk has been a long fourth dimension favorite somebody to pose every bit for scammers on Twitter, Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few calendar month agone he fifty-fifty remarked "I desire to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz …"

Twitter has taken downwards the tweets, as well as given the hacked @PatheUK delineate of piece of occupation concern human relationship dorsum to the rightful owners.

For a await dorsum on another past times Twitter imposter scams, depository fiscal establishment stand upwardly for out a short article I wrote at the showtime of the twelvemonth titled "People are falling for around of the dumbest scams we've ever seen".

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Author: Ross Davis
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San Francisco News Desk