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It was seen that someone's twitter account was hack and then promoted a bitcoin doubler. This used to be the tactics of cyber criminals in Youtube as it was reported that the activities started Massive wave of account hijacks hits YouTube creators (https://www.zdnet.com/article/massive-wave-of-account-hijacks-hits-youtube-creators/). Yes, we are all familiar with the recent Twitter breach, but the difference is that this is a wide spread attack now, so anyone can become a victim.

I'm not saying that these criminals have shift, but more likely twitter might be easy to hack now through their phishing email attempts. So if you used this platform, so just be careful and this is a warning.

I'm not a follower of this account, but this is one example and definitely won't be the last twitter hack. So when the hacker takes over your attack, the obvious thing, Elon Musk is screaming all over with his supposedly bitcoin giveaways. This account has 230k followers.

https://i.imgur.com/BZhOSGm.png

https://twitter.com/diamondwhite/status/1315653427096059904

Website:
And these criminals are now hiding behind amazons aws, a bit tricky but we can report it here:

https://support.aws.amazon.com/#/contacts/report-abuse

https://help.twitter.com/en/safety-and-security/account-security-tips

Trick here is that the scammer is posting it from a verified account and regular people will think that's legit since it's coming from a verified account. But someone with a little experience will understand it's a scam. Bitcoin can not be created out of thin air and double it.

The bitly link takes me to this url:
And this seems a Medium blog post and when I click on the content creators profile name is shows the homepage of Medium instead of taking to the profile. Any idea?

The only logical idea I find is that, they cloned the page so that it looks like it has been posted in Medium. If this is the case then this is very cleaver and the scammer is/was well-prepared for it.

Yes, this happens because it is so easy for everyone to do. You only need to "save page as" on a page, then you will get the source of the page from the index page to the html and re-upload to server. So far there is no way to prevent this, although using injection code that makes the pages cannot be saved/copy/CTRL + U, by using certain tools/extensions, it can be disabled immediately. So, we have to be careful especially when it comes to things that are hype like DeFi, UNI and any other giveaways.

Well, everyone just have to stop desperately trying to earn easily. I guess that's good enough way to avoid falling for these very obvious scam attempts.

If one is badly needing money and would probably dignify such shallow attempts, then perhaps a minute of Google search for due diligence is required. That's probably enough to uncover this modus.

Those "better" scammers would honestly probably do a killing in the creatives industry. They really do make great graphics and decent post copyrighting to be able to trick more people. Unfortunately they're using their talents in malicious means.

You will be more shocked when see reports about how much they earn from their sheme.
I do consider them as artist scammers. Not every talented is targeted to do good things. You know how many people consider Hitler as historical hero.

I already read those medium accounts who comment on these supposedly giveaway, Lol, it seems that those accounts have been hacked as well or carefully crafted by this scammers to be used in this kind of schemes. So hack twitter accounts + medium = scammers paradise.

I do hope though that the original owner can get back her account, and this is a game changer for Amazon as well, as their platform now is being taken advantage. I'm sure there will be policy changes if these attacks continue and hackers moving out from the obvious dot.domain name to Amazon AWS.

Nope. I'm fully aware that these "better" scammers are making gigantic amounts of money. Regardless how good they are, they're still complete pieces of shit and are a total waste of earth's resources.

Scammer are smart but unfortunately they are not smart enough to make money the right way. I don't think they have to do all of this, it would be much better if they were to promote themselves as creative and capable of doing more than anyone else to make money. But it seem they don't care about this, because I think they just want money no matter what harm for other people.

Not really, because it's mostly really not the knowledge/intelligence/wisdom they're lacking, because a lot of scammers/thieves are definitely smart as hell(look: a lot of politicians). It's just that most if not all scammers/thieves have complete lack of empathy towards other people.

When scammers knows the world does not care how they make money, if they make money and not caught through scam means, no one will query them but people will respect them. Many people, especially the less priviledge are not having opportunities to make money like people that are rich, that is why many of them that are poor are found to scam. But, scam or no scam, scam is bad, not good in any way, we should try our best to avoid it.

You are right about this, scammers do not care, even if victims will be depressed and die, I have read on news before about a woman in hospital that was attacked with ransonware, the woman needed emergency but died due to this. Scammers are deadly, that is why we need to be careful and do all we can to avoid them.

What you called smart way is the slowest way for them to earn since earning by doing some multiple task is time waster for them that's why they prefer to scam people to get an easy money out from thin air.

And it's no surprise for scammers to know the status or feeling of their victims since for sure they are greedy to gain more and doesn't have any self pity to other.

Many scamming attempts still happened and I'm sure they still earn from this that's why many scammers still exist here or even outside of the forum.

Lets be honest here the online definition of Smart was

S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Attainable
R - Realistic
T - Timely


Scammers arent smart because someone who's intelligent, fond of making money in dubious way and lack empathy for others lose the Realistic aspect thats hes causing collateral damage of others and such person should be consider as Smat not Smart.

Twitter hacking have become the easiest to do now i must say! It's becoming quite frequent but some people still fall for this trick and that baffles me. Is it that people are greedy, lazy or just careless. These tweets always look too good to be true but for the sake of getting unbelievable money, people risk their data and money and just hand scammers their fund.

I do believe there are newbies into this crypto space daily but people really need an eye opener, not long ago a huge scam like this creeped up. What is twitter doing about this? Why is it so easy to get hacked there? Is it an inside job?

With that being said, we still need to be extra careful as even experts falls for some of this attempts. Sometimes you will even see fake comments from some acknowledging they received rewards etc. It has become a jungle out there. God help us all after we help ourselves!

Before the incident that happened in July this year were accounts of popular individuals like Obama, Bill Gates, Eleon Musk etc were hacked, I can understand if people feel that a post from a verified account will prolly not be a scam attempt, but after that event, and the community/world became aware that it's possible for that sort of breach to happen and people can get scammed through that means, I expected people/crypto users to ignore giveaway scams even if it's posted from verified accounts on social media.

That being said, it's clear many people do not want to carry on with the responsibility of protecting their crypto funds from scammers, it's not even about if scammers are smart or not, it's important to learn how to protect oneself and also sensitizing others close to us to the popular methods of security breaches/compromise as well.

That's true in the context of the specific description you've picked. You're stating "the online definition of Smart was" as if there's only one official specific definition of that word even though you just picked that specific one because it fits your argument.

Twitter hackers who use this kind of scheme usually target famous people with a high number of followers so they can find more victims that will fall for it. Usually, people with no enough awareness tend to believe in what these famous persons are saying on social media even without checking it. And since hackers are continuously growing, it's not new at all so people on Twitter should be careful, not only for influential people but also for regular ones because not everything they will see or encounter in Twitter or any other platforms is real especially if it involves money.

Twitter went totally mad with this captcha and confirmations appearing all the time! It's not the way to prevent hacks!!!

Honestly, I'm tired of always knowing about Twitter account hackers like this, why is it so often and the accounts that are hacked are also famous accounts with blue ticks. Either twitter doesn't increase its security level or is it very easy to hack and doesn't solve some hackers.

This is certainly not new news anymore, there have been almost many similar cases since the big incident when many accounts of state officials and famous people were hacked simultaneously.
people who don't pay much attention to the news about crypto and about scamming methods like this will be fooled and it's easy to deposit funds at the fraudulent address.

If not that blue check mark, I would say that this twitter account is used in “pay-by-action” service (dont know how it is called correctly - a service where users get small payment for following, retweeting, subscribing an etc).

I’ve such tasks cinnectec with “Elon Mask youtube giveaway”. People get paid 1 russian ruble for clicking “Like” on such videos.

You really think people keep everything in their mind, I mean the hack. Lots of people even do not know about it. Most of them who knew about it, would not be able to connect it this way like you said. The victims are obviously the newbies in the industry and when they hear about giveaway they do not even mind giving them their private keys.

I think we have a lot of cases like this that the X ICO came in and asked for ETH private kay for airdrop and a lot of users did not mind giving them what they needed and later they created scam accusations thread in the meta board.

Scammers are basically live out of the greed, ignorance of users in the crypto space. I think if one is not well aware about the security of their crypto and do not have basic common sense of the internet, they should not buy any coin.

Scammers will take advantage of the hacked account especially if this account has so many followers or the account is the owner of a famous crypto person but based on the post of the hacked account, there would be many beginners who would fall for this thing, I already have some experience about hacking and scamming so I wouldn't trust easily any giveaways and bitcoin doubler.

Beginners should ask the first before they will go to try any giveaway or fake website, the numbers of criminal attacks are increasing so we should always be careful about everything.

Exactly! It really looks like there are one and half developers supporting this piece of crap and none of them is good at what he's doing. I keep getting thrown out the system for captcha even after I was logged in for a while. This is so irritating! If it's Jack's way to fight hacking, it's incredibly lame. Imagine being made to pass captcha test using your Google or Instagram or whatever account *facepalm*

I guess they aren't going where you're pointing them to because it won't fetch them more cash easily like scamming gullible people would afford them. Those scumbags actually weigh their options.

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Back to the OP, I actually saw something similar being promoted from CZ Binance's handle on twitter and instantly I concluded there was something wrong with that handle. In this auster age, with finances coming down, I don't believe in easy money in the form of giveaways. No free lunch anywhere. And to think anyone would double anyone's Bitcoin/altcoins is just being plainly greedy. Those who fall prey to such are as guilty as those who scam them. However, on hacked account, my suggestion is that people should put a 2FA on their accounts. I have had several occasions where I got codes sent to me from transactions I didn't initiate. Instantly it would occur to me that someone was trying to hack my account. But they never get to succeed and it's all thanks to 2FA.

The tweet has been deleted and the account has been restored, are there any reports of how many victims lost BTC?
Other schemes are carried out by scammers, hacking verified accounts, and sharing doubler bitcoin links. Will this method be abandoned forever. What efforts can be made to turn off the idiot scammer idea so that there is no possibility of another scam scheme?

Yes, it's a shame they use their talents to deceive others...
ordinary people must be immediately attracted to the tricks they make because they package the appearance very attractively. Twitter and YouTube are the platforms they use most often for cheating, as well as the developers of these two applications to fix their systems.

It is why scammers are getting smarter and improving to deceive people or make them believe in things that aren't true with their talents to persuade and make false information that is too good to be true. So we should also continuously improve ourselves from learning to identify if they are promoting or advertising fake projects quickly.

Very well said!

The simplest and most obvious prey that these scammers choose are those who aim to earn fast with  minimal to no effort. Earning will always be inversely proportional to effort, unless of course if you'd win a lottery or be the scammers themselves. Before I discovered the true world of earning crypto, I used to be a victim of so many scams. To name a few, I sometimes would fall on websites who offer faucets, mining, and games that boasts "faster" reward rate and an ever-updating bandwagon of those who won or those who were currently upgrading their plans. I found out that most of them were scams through thorough research. Don't also believe on "live-chatting" and would even mention your name, I tried it every time refreshed it and their response were always the same.

I was guilty for being a jerk, but happy that I learned from it the hard way.

This is getting a little out of hand, the numbers of accounts hack on Youtube, Twitter, and other platforms are increasing.

Scammers are getting more online so we could expect hacking a lot as pandemic force a lot of people to work at home and to go online. I think platforms need to improve their security as account hacking is happening frequently and at the same time users need to be responsible for their own account.

Another Elon Musk scams, it is already a common scam on Twitter but having a legitimate account promoting it might get some newbies to fall into these traps. Users just need to understand that earning is not easy, don't be greedy and fall into this kind of scams.

I think he / she has click a link where in he have type in the username and password, or maybe use to login the email register in twitter to login in a unsecure site, and uses the same password, or a potential link made by the hacker there lots of possibilities.
so be very careful where you login because you might not be aware all your informations are being gather in a certain site or link.

You know what's scary? The subdomain itself is legit, but the long URL isn't, as this Amazon CDN is often abused.

I know right. It's becoming more difficult to determine whether something is a scam or not. Hackers' and scammers' skills are so advanced now. And yeah, like you said, it's sad to think that they're using it in such ways. With these kind of things, the saying "money is the root of all evil" may be applied.

Well, since they (hackers/scammers) are so good now, the best we could do, I think, is to do some research first whether something is legit or just a fraud. And ask questions if necessary. There's no harm in that. Better safe than sorry, right?

There is nothing to be worried if you are just a regular Joe browsing twitter, don't open suspicious files sent via email as most worms attack this way. The problem with the verified users is that they are prone to attacks as they have an image that is presented to the public. If you want to get rid of possible hacks, do not use Twitter. Simple as it may look like, it is effective. It is also worth mentioning the added benefit of being away from the social media toxicity that plagues Twitter.

Now with this recent attack, everyone could be a victim especially those accounts that always post about cryptocurrencies that have some lots of followers. This is bad, if those guys reported our account without knowing we are also a victim, we will have a hard time getting it back once Twitter blocked our account. Just like my old Twitter account where it fell for their unexpected purge, I never had a chance to recover it. Now, what if that kind of incident happened again?

https://i.ibb.co/k3XMzYs/Screenshot-1.jpg

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/twitter-removes-millions-of-accounts-switches-off-tweets-via-sms-after-vul/576860/