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Shiba Inu had the greatest number of fake followers at 10.26% or 80,000 accounts, while Avalanche and Polygon followed suit with 8.14% and 7.58% of fake accounts, respectively. origin »
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Musk has not been shy about touting his vision for Twitter in the past, flagging free speech and eliminating spam bots and fake accounts as particular points of interest.
2022-10-6 08:46 | |
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Bitcoin dominates the digital assets markets, being the firstborn crypto and the most publicised. It accounts for over 40% of the global cryptocurrency market capitalisation. While Bitcoin trade volumes are expected to outpace those of other cryptocurrencies considerably, recent data shows these values might have been blown out of proportion. Global daily BTC trade volume […]
2022-8-30 20:59 | |
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The Macalinao brothers may have played a central role in Solana’s meteoric rise to the top after ingeniously faking multiple developer activities on the network.
2022-8-7 21:24 | |
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The company is gathering all the possible information on Elon Musk's private claims about its number of fake accounts.
2022-8-5 16:23 | |
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Cybersecurity company BrandShield has removed 120 phishing sites and 58 fake social media accounts in two months since its launch.
2022-7-20 15:39 | |
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Celsius Network announced that there is an increase in fake accounts on social media and warned users to be more vigilant.
2022-6-22 11:54 | |
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has slammed those cryptocurrency marketplaces that are enabling a fake “Fortnite token” promotion. He also noted that the company’s lawyers were looking into the Twitter accounts that have promoted the scam Fortnite cryptocurrencies.
2022-6-8 19:18 | |
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Would-be Twitter owner Elon Musk plans to shake the crypto spammers out of Twitter, disputing claims that fake accounts are only 5% of the total.
2022-5-28 06:47 | |
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Илон Маск приостановил процесс покупки Twitter после того, как СМИ сообщили о завышении показателей аудитории соцсети. Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.
2022-5-13 17:40 | |
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Илон Маск приостановил процесс покупки Twitter после того, как СМИ сообщили о завышении показателей аудитории соцсети. Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.
2022-5-13 13:17 | |
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Хакеры атаковали ряд популярных криптовалютных YouTube-блогеров и от их имени опубликовали видео с призывами отправить деньги. Об этом сообщил аналитик Mr. Whale. BREAKING: Dozens of Crypto YouTubers have had their accounts hijacked by hackers promoting a fake crypto giveaway scam.
2022-1-24 11:02 | |
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The cryptocurrency industry is no stranger to scams and fraud, unfortunately, as bad actors were a part of it ever since Bitcoin (BTC/USD) first got its value. With that said, there has been a new trend among the scammers who are using stolen photos to make fake Instagram accounts and scam people by pushing fraudulent […] The post A fake Instagram account caught conducting crypto fraud appeared first on Invezz.
2021-12-16 20:16 | |
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The team warned SHIB investors about scammers who are impersonating official accounts and creating fake users.
2021-11-23 11:14 | |
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With social media platforms like Facebook swamped with fake accounts, trolls and bots, the time is right for a platform that leverages blockchain and cryptocurrency to deliver authenticity.
2021-6-15 15:01 | |
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CEO Ripple Брэд Гарлингхаус сообщил, что он и компания заключили мировое соглашение с YouTube по иску, поданному против видеохостинга в 2020 году. Last year, @Ripple and I sued @YouTube for failing to enforce its own policies by allowing fake accounts (impersonating my/Ripple’s verified accounts) to conduct XRP giveaway scams.
2021-3-10 11:56 | |
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Roughly 500 people were in for a random surprise on Mar. 8, receiving a profanity-laced correspondence from BlockFi after their email addresses were used to sign up for fake accounts.
2021-3-10 07:13 | |
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Ripple?s partner, the major commercial Thai bank SCB, warns that scammers are using the LINE app to steal its customers? personal data and funds by making fake accounts
2020-6-3 13:59 | |
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Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founder of crypto exchange Gemini, explains how Instagram can easily spot phony accounts
2020-5-27 18:16 | |
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According to a series of Tweets by ‘Xrplorer Forensics’, hackers have been using fake Ledger Live chrome extensions to steal XRP coins from users. The hackers were even advertising their fake extensions on google searches and accounts are already being emptied, according to the Tweet, around 1.
2020-3-26 15:38 | |
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A fake EOS Authority bot has appeared on Telegram, asking users to provide private keys to their accounts to monitor their funds. Several users have so far warned about the...The post EOS Authority Bot Scam Pops Up On Telegram appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2020-2-13 06:32 | |
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The OneCoin cryptocurrency project – accused by authorities of being a Ponzi scheme – attempted to boost its fortunes by using "inauthentic" accounts to place favorable reviews on TrustPilot and Quora, according to new research.
2020-1-29 12:17 | |
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The OneCoin cryptocurrency project – accused by authorities of being a Ponzi scheme – may have attempted to counter negative news by using "inauthentic" accounts to place favorable reviews on TrustPilot and Quora, according to new research.
2020-1-30 12:17 | |
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The Stellar Development Foundation won’t be airdropping 2 billion Lumens after all. In a blog post yesterday, Keybase and the Stellar Development Foundation announced the cancellation of its 2 billion Lumens airdrop program after getting attacked by “hordes” of fake accounts.
2019-12-12 06:24 | |
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Facebook has removed hundreds of fake accounts and pages associated with individuals connected to the Saudi Arabian government as part of its ongoing fight to curtail coordinated inauthentic behavior on the platform.
2019-8-2 11:43 | |
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Online criminals are impersonating as the representative of Facebook to lure victims into buying the social media platform’s yet-to-release cryptocurrency, Libra. According to the Washington Post, scammers lately ran ads through a dozen on fake accounts, pages, and groups across Facebook and Instagram, presenting themselves as the official hubs of Libra.
2019-7-24 15:00 | |
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Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Are fake followers hindering your influence in the Twittersphere? Do you want to get rid of them once and for all? I’m here to show you how.
2019-7-24 14:00 | |
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“With great power comes great responsibility” The cryptocurrency market needs to abide by that as well. And, Facebook learnt this the hard way after it was found that fake Facebook accounts, pages, and groups were claiming to sell the yet-to-be released cryptocurrency, Libra, at a discounted rate.
2019-7-24 03:30 | |
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Facebook’s foray into the cryptoverse has been the talk of the town, largely owing to the never-ending list of complications that may end up further delaying its 2020 launch. The social media giant, which was already skating on thin ice before, is in trouble again after it was discovered that several pages and accounts on Facebook […] The post Facebook’s Libra raises more red flags after fake FB, Instagram accounts advertise its sale online appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-7-23 17:00 | |
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It’s barely been a month since Facebook unleashed its cryptocurrency Libra into the wild and published its whitepaper. But already, the social media giant has been forced to address a growing number of fake communications associated to its digital asset.
2019-7-23 14:44 | |
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Numerous fake accounts, groups, and pages operated by fraudsters have swamped Facebook and Instagram to mispresent themselves as the official hubs for the social media giant’s upcoming Libra crypto, the Washington Post reported today.
2019-7-23 14:03 | |
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Ernst and Young, the audit giant, the court-appointed third-party monitor and now the bankruptcy trustee of the QuadrigaCX proceedings, released its fifth report on the QuadrigaCX episode. Part 1 of AMBCrypto’s coverage can be found here.
2019-6-20 18:00 | |
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QuadrigaCX CEO and founder Gerald Cotten reportedly created fake accounts at other crypto exchanges and funded them with his customers' money.
2019-6-20 14:05 | |
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The Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX appears to have been playing with fire long before it collapsed – and took $134 million with it – earlier this year. According to the latest report from administrators, EY, QuadrigaCX had been operating a fraudulent cryptocurrency exchange.
2019-6-20 11:32 | |
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The deceased owner of the now-defunct QuadrigaCX was transferring user funds off the exchange and using them as a security for his own margin trading on other platforms
2019-6-20 10:55 | |
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Facebook has removed as many accounts as it has users in the first three months of this year according to a recent report by the social networking giant. “Our detection...
2019-5-25 20:02 | |
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Facebook has issued a statement on how it removed fake accounts originating from Israel that ran Facebook Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts that carried false information looking to influence elections in several African countries.
2019-5-24 12:26 | |
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By CCN: Hackers, many in their teens, have drained the accounts of more than 50 Californian victims in a $35 million SIM swap heist. Officials estimate that in total, $50 million has been stolen in related attacks around the US since the beginning of 2018.
2019-5-23 15:59 | |
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Authorities are investigating an Australian social media influencer‘s bank accounts after she defrauded her followers with fake cancer claims and used the money to trade cryptocurrency. Annabelle “Belle” Gibson has been systematically lying to her followers and using her company’s profits to trade cryptocurrencies, futures, and place sports bets, the Canberra Times reports.
2019-5-14 12:36 | |
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Data scientist Geoff Golberg talks about his quest to expose Twitter bots, receiving death threats from the XRP Army, and how to identify fake Twitter accounts.
2019-5-8 21:06 | |
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Yet another organization thought to be tied the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme OneCoin has been uncovered. Central Bank of Samoa (CBS) has named the Samoa Worship Centre as being used as a front in the $3 billion OneCoin scam which promised unrealistic returns for investing in a fake cryptocurrency.
2019-4-26 15:16 | |
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Hackers Steal The Twitter Of Sweden’s Ruling Party To Publish Bitcoin Fake News Some people go too far when it comes to pumping Bitcoin. A group of hackers has decided to hack the social media accounts of the ruling political party of Sweden in order to publish fake news that could make the price of […]
2019-4-16 22:50 | |
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Yesterday, the world got to see the first photograph of a black hole. It was a truly historic moment, and it couldn’t have happened without MIT CSAIL researcher Dr. Katie Bouman, who was catapulted overnight into the halls of global celebrity.
2019-4-11 17:44 | |
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Special thanks to Glen Weyl, Phil Daian and Jinglan Wang for review Over the last few years there has been an increasing interest in using deliberately engineered economic incentives and mechanism design to align behavior of participants in various contexts.
2019-4-5 04:03 | |
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The peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful announced today, April 2, 2019, that it’s introducing AI-powered identity verification to help improve know-your-customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML) procedures on the platform.
2019-4-3 21:13 | |
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The first phase of the Indian Assembly’s election kicks off on April 21, but the increase in propaganda has already begun. Facebook has announced it’s removed numerous pages and accounts that used practices like fake accounts and cross-posting to increase their spread.
2019-4-1 16:33 | |
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It’s not just crypto exchange data that’s being manipulated. Tron Founder Justin Sun recently bragged about his popularity on Twitter, saying he was the “first one in crypto world to break through 1 million” followers.
2019-3-25 15:15 | |
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An analysis of 50,000 new Twitter followers of Justin Sun, Tron’s founder, reveals about 20,000 of them are zero day accounts created this month with almost no followers or tweets.... The post Close to Half of Justin Sun’s New Followers Revealed as Fake appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-3-24 21:58 | |
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Ripple prices consolidation XRP Army a blend of phony accounts and bots Transaction levels lows and averages more than half that of Feb 24 and 25 Geoff Golberg, an independent researcher with the application of Network analysis on social and blockchain data is confident that the harassing XRP Army consists of fake accounts and bots.
2019-3-19 21:00 | |
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Facebook’s used its machine learning prowess to filter hate speech and fake accounts— but now it’s turning its focus on fighting revenge porn. In an announcement last week, the company said that it’s introducing new technology to remove non-consensual intimate photos and videos off its platform.
2019-3-18 15:12 | |
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Thousands of bots and fake accounts pumping Ripple’s XRP have been uncovered through graph analysis that suggests a massive largely fake shill army is engaging in manipulating sentiment and thus.
2019-3-17 23:00 | |
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Blockworks has acquired Messari after securing a $192 million valuation earlier this year, deepening its push into crypto data infrastructure as competition intensifies to build the industry’s information layer.
Kalshi's mention market on Trump's speech took in 391,165 trades over 46 days of live markets . 79% of the money showed up on speech night for a total of 11. 97 million in lifetime value. The post Trump Speech Generated $11.
Kalshi's mention market on Trump's speech took in 391,165 trades over 46 days of live markets . 79% of the money showed up on speech night for a total of 11. 97 million in lifetime value. The post Trump SOTU Speech Generated $11.
As AI shifts from text to robotics, the battle for training data is entering a new phase. Poseidon, backed by a16z, is positioning itself as the arbiter of this next-gen data economy, where provenance and licensing are non-negotiable.
Binance has maintained its position as the leading centralized exchange in Q1 2025, despite a wider market downturn and declining trading volumes. With a total trading volume of about $8.39 trillion, Binance accounted for 36.5% of the global CEX market…
Unveiled on March 31 at Hannover Messe 2025, the production version of Pontus-X, developed by deltaDAO AG, marks a major step forward for Europe’s digital sovereignty strategy. Built on the Gaia-X framework and powered by Oasis Network’s privacy-preserving blockchain, Pontus-X…
Bitcoin is likely to fall below $80,000 this week, according to digital assets research firm 10x Research. In a recent market update on X, the firm cited growing uncertainty over U.S. tariffs and rising inflation as key risk factors weighing…