Bitcoin Scams Twitter

In mid july the twitter accounts of some of the world s richest and most influential politicians celebrities tech moguls and. Bitcoin has been a growing source of scams on social media. The official accounts of barack obama joe biden.

Billionaires elon musk jeff bezos and bill gates are among many prominent us figures targeted by hackers on twitter in an apparent bitcoin scam. But scammers continued to proliferate on. Twitter said at the time that it was cracking down on cryptocurrency scams claiming it had developed new tools to detect spammy and malicious activity.

Bots promoting cryptocurrency giveaways would reply in droves to legitimate tweets from major tech. The problem became rampant on twitter in late 2017 when bitcoin was on a wild price ride. Anderson for the northern district of california said in a news release.

There is a false belief within the criminal hacker community that attacks like the twitter hack can be perpetrated anonymously and without consequence u s. The tweets offered to send 2 000 for every 1 000 sent to an anonymous bitcoin address. Big youtube accounts are being plagued by hackers promoting bitcoin scams resembling the hack that compromised twitter aaron holmes 2020 08 04t15 15 58z.

Here s how they got arrested in the us and the uk. The twitter bitcoin scam allowed hackers to rake in over 80 000 100 000. Invalid date the british teenager charged with hacking the twitter accounts of the rich and famous in a bitcoin scam faces 45 years in a us jail.

Twitter provided its most recent update into the attack on thursday evening. The teen s scam reaped more than 100 000 worth of bitcoin on july 15 according to warren s office. On july 15 2020 between 20 00 and 22 00 utc.

At least 130 accounts affected. High profile verified twitter accounts. Coordinated social engineering attack.

July 15 2020 20 00 22 00 utc. A representative scam tweet from apple s hacked account. 2020 twitter bitcoin scam.