US and Israeli politicians hacked to promote ‘Elon Musk’ cryptocurrency scams

2018-11-12 16:40

It appears scammers have hijacked yet another batch of verified Twitter accounts to promote fake cryptocurrency giveaway links (often under the disguise of Elon Musk). A verified account belonging to the Australian branch of consulting giant Capgemini has been spotted running malicious giveaway links on Twitter.

Posing as Musk, the malicious tweet encouraged users to send small amounts of cryptocurrency for a chance to participate in a 10,000 Bitcoin (nearly over $60 million) giveaway. Prior to its removal, the tweet had accumulated thousands of likes and retweets. The wallet address associated with the malicious giveaway links has already received over…

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Web Summit 2018 Experiences Crypto Fervor with Free Cryptocurrency Giveaway

Web Summit 2018’s attendees were in for a surprise this year when one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency wallets, Blockchain announced that it is airdropping $125 million worth of stellar lumens (XLM).

2018-11-11 08:00
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Selling your personal data for $25 of XLM is not worth it

Bitcoin wallet giving away $125 million to encourage mass adoption Blockchain wallet, one of the most popular wallet projects in the world, has initiated a giveaway of $125 million worth of XLM to encourage mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency.

2018-11-9 17:49	Crypto Journal
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Blockchain Wallet Announces $125M Stellar Lumens (XLM) Airdrop

Blockchain plans to distribute $125 million worth of Stellar Lumens (XLM) to its 28 million users who register for the historic airdrop. What a Stellar Idea! Cryptocurrency wallet provider Blockchain is planning to host what it calls the “largest crypto giveaway in history.

2018-11-8 05:00
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Big Stellar Airdrop Lifts XLM Prices to Five Week High

Cryptocurrency markets are generally buoyant this week following a month of lethargy in October. Some altcoins are outperforming others and one has reached a five week high gaining 18% this week alone.

2018-11-7 13:00	XLM
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India’s national disaster authority hacked to promote Bitcoin scams on Twitter

The cryptocurrency market is going through a rough patch, but this isn’t stopping scammers from duping people out of their funds. Hackers took over the official Twitter account of India’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to promote blatant Bitcoin giveaway scams – a trend that’s been plaguing social media for months now.

2018-11-6 12:47	hard fork
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Scam Me Once: Twitter Promotes Fake Elon Musk’s ‘Bitcoic’ Giveaway

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	#twitter
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Tron Burns More ERC20 Tokens and Announces 100,000 Coin Giveaway With Coincodex

Tron’s blockchain debuted its mainnet on June 25 this year, following which the Tron Foundation has actively retrieved and burnt millions of former ERC20 tokens. In its latest coinburn event, Tron did away with over 34 billion TRX ERC20 tokens.

2018-11-5 20:29	Tron [TRX]
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Major European film group hacked to promote Bitcoin scam on Twitter

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	hard fork
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Battle of the Privacycoins: Zcash Is Groundbreaking (If You Trust It)

Based on blockchain technology, most cryptocurrencies have an open and public ledger of transactions. While this is required for these system to work, it comes with a significant downside: privacy is often quite limited.

2018-9-25 19:47	Digital assets
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Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News For Today September 18th [VIDEO]

Cardano (ADA) CEO Charles Hoskinson Thought Ethereum (ETH) Would Tank with His Departure Cardano (ADA) CEO Charles Hoskinson Thought Ethereum (ETH) Would Tank with His Departure Optherium Ecosystem's Vivuspay Mobile Banking App for Cryptocurrencies Launches Optherium Ecosystem's Vivuspay Mobile Banking App for Cryptocurrencies Launches Think You can Accurately Predict Bitcoin's Price? KuCoin BTC Giveaway Will […]

2018-9-19 06:02	News
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Reddit User Exposes his Crypto Astroturfing Operation

The shadowy world of spam marketing and sock puppeting on behalf of cryptocurrency and blockchain projects has hit the headlines for its impact on Twitter users. The ubiquitous “crypto giveaway” scam has targeted everyone from Roger Ver to Pope Francis.

2018-9-19 20:00	social media
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Elon Musk Fed Up with Twitter Crypto Scams, Turns to Dogecoin Creator for Help

Eccentric tech entrepreneur and founder of Space X and electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, is reportedly getting fed up with the cryptocurrency giveaway scam bots that have been plaguing popular social media platform Twitter for the better part of a year.

2018-9-17 22:00	#twitter
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L.A. Dodgers Using Ethereum for Athlete Token Giveaway

Ethereum (ETH)–Despite the tanking price of Ether over the weekend, the second largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization can count on one positive development towards adoption coming out of a major U.

2018-9-10 18:47
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Binance Announces TRX Trading Competition, 1,000,000 TRX Coin Giveaway

One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges on the planet, Binance, has recently announced a TRX trading competition. The competition’s total prize would be 1,000,000 TRX coins, which will be distributed to the winners worldwide.

2018-9-7 20:14	Tron [TRX]
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Cryptocurrency DEX Aphelion begins 50,000 APH token giveaway

Aphelion, a P2P trading platform (DEX) built on the NEO blockchain currently operating on testnet and now in the final stages of examination announced that it needs help increasing trading volume and DEX users to.

2018-8-28 09:09
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Ethereum (ETH) is the Most Popular Cryptocurrency for Scammers, Kaspersky Report Shows

Ethereum giveaway scams multiplied with cybercriminals pocketing $2.3 million in the second quarter of 2018.

2018-8-15 16:13	News
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Stop Unfollowing Ethereum Scam Bots, Twitter Actually Wants You To Follow Them Instead

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	ethereum
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A Look Into The Mind Of An “ETH Giveaway” Twitter Scammer

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	vitalik buterin
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Twitter is now recommending users follow cryptocurrency scambots

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	Insider
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Twitter ‘Free ETH Giveaway’ Scams Can Rake in $50K-100K Per Day

“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	vitalik buterin
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Bitcoin Magazine’s Week in Review: Getting Creative With Blockchain Solutions

This week’s top stories include two feature interview: one with Kavita Gupta, founding managing partner at ConsenSys Ventures; and another with electronic dance music DJ Justin Blau (aka DJ 3BLAU) who is launching a decentralized music festival.

2018-8-13 20:52
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Researchers Uncover Scam Botnet On Twitter

An elaborate system of malware was found to be behind cryptocurrency giveaway scams.

2018-8-8 23:47	ecosystem
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Researchers Discover Huge Crypto Scam Botnet on Twitter

Researchers have uncovered a large botnet that mimics legitimate accounts on Twitter to spread a cryptocurrency "giveaway" scam.

2018-8-7 17:42	Republished
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Crypto Twitter Bots Have Become Worse than Anyone Could Have Imagined

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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Tron Announces iPhone Giveaway to Celebrate Token Adoption by Exchanges

The Tron (TRX) team just announced an iPhone X giveaway competition for fans who post positive messages about the project on its social media. This is to celebrate the recent migration to its own blockchain (previously it used Ethereum), as well as increased collaboration with exchanges.

2018-7-30 15:54	Tron [TRX]
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Meet TaTaTu, a New Social Entertainment Platform That Pays Users in Crypto Tokens [For Watching Videos]

With a catchy name and what the company touts as the largest-ever cryptocurrency giveaway to date, the U. K. -based social entertainment platform TaTaTu seems to be aiming for one heck of a debut.

2018-7-29 17:19	Cryptocurrency
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Take 1.7 Seconds Defeat 99% Scammers! Binance Jigsaw Explained

If the crypto-sphere were an old, stately home, Twitter scambots would be the antique mold; part of the house for almost as long as it existed. The bots pose as famous users and following a post, reply underneath that they’re doing some sort of improbable cryptocurrency giveaway.

2018-7-26 19:14	#twitter
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Twitter locks your account if you change your display name to Elon Musk

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	hard fork
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Hackers hijack an official Fox Twitter account to spread cryptocurrency scams

Cryptocurrency scammers are getting smarter by the day. It appears hackers have surreptitiously seized control of the official Twitter account of FOX’s show Almost Human to spread malicious “giveaway” links.

2018-7-24 14:03	hard fork
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Ethereum [ETH]’s Vitalik Buterin calls out spambots, again

On 19th July, Vitalik Buterin, the Co-Founder of Ethereum, tweeted about the prevalent bots’ intrusion on Twitter handles related to cryptocurrency. He basically referred to the feature present in almost all Ethereum giveaway pages that have a slider with the caption ‘Left Ethereum’.

2018-7-21 23:25	News
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Binance announces giveaway of IOTX – Coin jumps 10 ranks ahead!

Binance just announced the giveaway of a small, lesser-known coin; IOTEX [IOTX]. The cryptocurrency exchange platform had recently announced the listing of IoTeX [IOTX]. On 1st June at 5:00 AM [UTC], IOTX was open for trading with the pairs – IOTX/BTC and IOTX/ETH.

2018-6-13 14:21	News
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