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Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org.
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Twitter, now rebranded as X, is stepping up its game against scam bots and spam accounts that have been a persistent issue, especially in the crypto community. On Oct. 17, X announced a pilot subscription scheme named “Not A Bot,”…
2023-10-18 14:50 | |
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Twitter has been on the losing side of an ongoing battle with scammers who are leveraging the platform’s user base to steal cryptocurrencies. However, the company has revealed that it’s implemented some safeguards in an attempt to reduce the frequency of such scams and better protect its users.
2018-11-15 01:00 | |
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Twitter has come under fire from cryptocurrency commentators once again after the social network began actively promoting an ongoing scam involving a Bitcoin giveaway. ‘Elon Musk’ Offers Millions of Dollars in ‘Bitcoic’ The scam, which has involved various accounts in recent weeks, currently revolves around a fake Elon Musk account using the hijacked Twitter handle of publishing house Pantheon Books.
2018-11-5 22:00 | |
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Another day on Twitter, another Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam. The official account of… This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Bitcoin,Twitter
2018-11-5 13:56 | |
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Twitter hate cryptocurrency don’t they. It’s no surprise, it seems that Twitter is a hub for cryptocurrency scams. Though advertising is banned, it’s still very easy for people to set up fake pages for ICO’s/crypto events and even easier for people to run multiple Twitter bots for this purpose too.
2018-8-15 08:00 | |
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Crypto Pet Peeves — Twitter Scam Bots Ethereum giveaway scam bots are the pet peeve of any cryptocurrency Twitter user, with these malicious accounts littering the comment sections of tweets. Nearly everyone in this nascent community has seen them, but for those who don’t know what these bots are, here’s a bit of an explanation.
2018-8-15 05:19 | |
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Despite constant pressure to ban them, it appears Twitter is actively contributing to the cryptocurrency scam epidemic on its platform and encouraging users to follow obvious scambot accounts. The social media giant was caught recommending a suspicious account impersonating Tesla CEO Elon Musk, as spotted by security researcher Troy Mursch.
2018-8-14 14:59 | |
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“Free ETH Giveaway” scams on Twitter might seem obvious to most but they are reportedly making some quite a lot of money. Making $50,000 to $100,000 Per Day Cryptocurrency evangelist and YouTuber Adam Guerbuez ran into the popular “Free ETH Giveaway” scam on Twitter.
2018-8-13 16:00 | |
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#Findsatoshi is the latest effort to galvanize worldwide support in order to, once and for all, find the enigmatic creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. The group has taken to an international crowdfunding campaign, enlisting world class private detectives from Japan to New York, and everywhere in-between.
2018-8-12 22:10 | |
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New research by Duo Security published on August 6 has highlighted that over 15,000 crypto scam bots have infiltrated Twitter. These accounts are currently involved in promoting fraudulent giveaways that are duping several users on the platform.
2018-8-9 16:45 | |
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This week, researchers uncovered empirical data confirming what most in the crypto Twittersphere already know – the space if flooded with scam bots: 15,000 of them to be exact, according to Duo Security.
2018-8-9 10:30 | |
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This week, researchers uncovered empirical data confirming what most in the crypto Twittersphere already know – the space if flooded with scam bots: 15,000 of them to be exact, according to Duo Security.
2018-8-9 10:30 | |
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Researchers at Duo Labs have discovered that Twitter is home to at least 15,000 scam bots and have published their findings in a new report. Between May and July of 2018, staff members observed, collected and analyzed nearly 90 million public Twitter accounts that had released over 500 million tweets.
2018-8-9 20:51 | |
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While fake cryptocurrency accounts on Twitter may pass off as failed tactics to amateur investors, a major security researcher believes the epidemic is an elaborately-planned, carefully-executed cyberattack consisting of thousands of spam accounts.
2018-8-8 16:00 | |
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A Duo Security report raises the alarm on a huge botnet broadcasting fake cryptocurrency giveaways on Twitter.
2018-8-8 11:43 | |
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An elaborate system of malware was found to be behind cryptocurrency giveaway scams.
2018-8-8 23:47 | |
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Researchers found a ramified network of bots promoting cryptocurrency fraudulent schemes in the social network. The most popular way to cheat investors is so called giveaways of coins.
2018-8-7 21:13 | |
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Researchers have uncovered a large botnet that mimics legitimate accounts on Twitter to spread a cryptocurrency "giveaway" scam.
2018-8-7 17:42 | |
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Cryptocurrency–One of the industry’s worst proponents is a pervasive, network of scam bots that has quickly come to litter the space of Twitter. While most social media users have become accustomed to the incessant “Ethereum giveaway” scams that adorn the profile of any crypto industry figure, the problem has begun to bleed over into other […] The post Crypto Twitter Bots Have Become Worse than Anyone Could Have Imagined appeared first on Ethereum World News.
2018-8-7 06:22 | |
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New research finds a crypto-related Twitter scam botnet of at least 15,000 bots spreading fake giveaways
2018-8-7 22:00 | |
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The old and tired virtual coins giveaway hoax on Twitter is still running, this time it’s the US president.
2018-8-3 18:18 | |
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“Ethereum Funds Recovery for ETH Losers” Has Been Warned as a SCAM! The Ethereum team took to Twitter to express a scam dubbed, “Ethereum Funds Recovery for ETH Losers” on July 29, 2018. What appears to be a screenshot of a letter has also been enclosed to ensure that those who have received it do […]
2018-7-30 00:24 | |
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Twitter finally takes a decisive step towards eliminating cryptocurrency scams on its platform, but only does so by blocking one person's name from being used.
2018-7-27 16:21 | |
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Cryptocurrency fraudsters are always innovating the ways to scam people. This time, someone took over a famous Fox TV show Twitter account and has reportedly been promoting cryptocurrency scams since July 21, 2018.
2018-7-26 19:30 | |
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Look out everyone, Blockchain technology is here to save Twitter! Yes, it really is. Everyone who follows social media trends constantly hears of the term Fake news. This problem is literally a cancer to Twitter because of how its working interface is designed.
2018-7-26 00:59 | |
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Twitter have designed a genius plan to help reduce the number of cryptocurrency scams circulating the Twitter sphere. Well, we say genius but actually, we can’t help but question who came up with this idea… According to reports, Twitter is disabling any Twitter accounts that are unverified and use the display name ‘Elon Musk’.
2018-7-25 16:30 | |
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In an effort to curb the cryptocurrency “giveaway” scam epidemic, Twitter will lock your account if you are not verified and change you display name to Elon Musk. Crypto-scammers and blockchain bandits are on the rise, and they will try anything to swindle unwitting victims into sending or wiring them funds – including pretending to be Musk himself.
2018-7-25 14:52 | |
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Crypto scam bots have become a common sight in the Twitter landscape, with many premier cryptocurrency personalities seeing an influx of fraudulent accounts commenting on their posts. This has become such a large problem that well-known cryptocurrency figures, like Binance’s CEO and Charlie Shrem, have signed an “open letter” calling for these scams to end.
2018-7-19 15:30 | |
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He recently wrote on Twitter: The ONLY [shitcoin] that is NOT a Scam is the ones you have not yet Research (sic). Prior to that, Vays had joined other industry figures in delivering a damning response to decentralized exchange platform Bancor.
2018-7-16 07:26 | |
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A rampant epidemic of cryptocurrency fraud plaguing Twitter for the past several months has now drawn the attention of Elon Musk. Musk took to Twitter on July 8, 2018, to speak out against the scam after he found himself in the whole mess.
2018-7-13 14:00 | |
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Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, had to grudgingly admit there were brains behind these persistent inescapable Ethereum scambots. The scam, which uses fake accounts to impersonate famous tech figures, has been running for months now, suggesting that even Twitter is unable to stop it at the moment.
2018-7-13 16:24 | |
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Ethereum (ETH)–In a momentous occasion for all of cryptocurrency, particularly Ethereum, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk made his first reference to the second overall cryptocurrency by market capitalization…in the form of a nod to the endless crypto scam bots that have suffocated Twitter.
2018-7-11 20:52 | |
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Musk has expressed some curiousness over the mad skills of Ethereum scam bots creator, while Vitalik Buterin asked Jack Dorsey to solve this issue. In one of the recent trends, cryptocurrency scam bots have been targeting accounts of high-profile individuals outside the crypto community.
2018-7-11 13:10 | |
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Musk has expressed some curiousness over the mad skills of Ethereum scam bots creator, while Vitalik Buterin asked Jack Dorsey to solve this issue. The post Ethereum Scam Bots on Twitter Draws Attention of Elon Musk appeared first on CoinSpeaker.
2018-7-11 11:05 | |
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Elon Musk has called out Twitter scam bots that impersonate famous people’s accounts to steal crypto from unsuspecting users
2018-7-11 00:02 | |
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The SpaceX and Tesla head-honcho took to Twitter to condemn the crypto-scam currently engulfing the platform. Professional thin-person and co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, also weighed in, asking Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, to “help us”.
2018-7-11 22:00 | |
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Twitter scam bots are still a pervasive problem in the Twitter crypto-sphere, with almost every crypto-influencers’ posts being followed immediately with a comment offering “send 0. 5 ETH to get 5 ETH” giveaways, with names and pictures similar to the influencers’.
2018-7-6 09:34 | |
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Ethereum Classic [ETC] tweeted about a trick airdrop known as Ether Emerald or Ethereum Emerald [ETE]. The Twitter record of the scammer tricked readers as it said that it is a child platform of the smart contract advancement stage of Ethereum.
2018-7-4 02:01 | |
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Ethereum Classic (ETC) has warned about the Ether Emerald or Ethereum Emerald (ETE) scam. ETE’s twitter account says that it is a new generation of smart contract development platform. But Ethereum Classic explains that the company is not related or affiliated to them and that it is a scam. Is Ethereum Emerald A Scam? Ethereum […]
2018-7-3 23:08 | |
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If Twitter can’t stop crypto scammers, they will. Also read: Bitcoin Funded Silk Road Performance Earns a Residency at Trafalgar Studios Developers Are Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands Crypto scams have been plaguing Twitter all year.
2018-6-24 16:51 | |
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Charles Hoskinson calls out the mainstream media’s constant predictions on the death of the cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme – scam bubble on Twitter predicting an influx of trillions of dollars from institutional markets once the next round of regulation is settled.
2018-6-22 12:30 | |
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Skycoin has been called out as a scam, as the CEO of the project, Synth, allegedly admitted to the coin having an “insider trading” group. In an audio recording released by a user named Jared Dunn on Twitter, the CEO is quoted as saying: “There was a whole channel full of special insider trading information […]
2018-6-19 14:02 | |
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Мошенники, целью которых являются слишком доверчивые пользователи сервиса микроблогов Twitter, выманили у своих уже почти $5 млн в криптовалюте Ethereum. Такие данные приводит пользователь Cryptomania со ссылкой на etherscamdb.
2018-6-11 12:50 | |
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Twitter has hired Peiter Zatko, a prominent white-hat hacker going by the handle "Mudge," to help prevent future security breaches.
NYDFS said cybersecurity must be treated as critical infrastructure by governments and corporations alike.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has become the latest victim of a Twitter hack undertaken to trick social media users into sending crypto to the attackers.
According to a recent report, a 16-year-old was served with a search warrant by federal agents at his home on Tuesday.
The 17-year-old charged with being the mastermind behind July's Twitter hack has pleaded not guilty; the defense says bail posted is "grossly inappropriate" to the amount of money stolen.
The SIM swapping community entered the spotlight after helping the Twitter hacker breach the social media platform, but these threat actors have been going after the crypto community for years.
Twitter hack alleged ringleader Graham Clark, the subject of a previous criminal investigation, had bail set at $725,000 at his first court appearance Saturday.