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Recently I see that many official Twitter handle and discord channel hacked which is belongs to high ranking projects like LayerZero CEO Twitter account, Slingshot Twitter account, Starknet Discord channel etc now Aptos Foundation Twitter also hacked and Aptos Labs quickly tweet that our official @Aptos_Network (https://twitter.com/Aptos_Network?t=zYYwKF7nyFu0yHjwC4ouiw&s=09) hacked don't click any links about airdrop, claiming buttons etc so be careful from phishing site and also stay safe

https://i.ibb.co/TWprwdx/Screenshot-2023-07-07-15-03-32-015-com-twitter-android.png

These hackers make these services a joke and I hope it is not because of the SIM card.
What I am surprised is that after official twitter page was hacked, why they do something stupid such as multiply currencies links, a random airdrop, or a scam model from the nineties.

Generally, Twitter is the last place you trust to click links or learn about new services.

Twitter giveaways should always be taken with a grain of salt even its an official account especially if it needs deposit for a giveaway lmao. This kind of issue is not new and already exists since 2 years ago or so. People should really learn these things already.

I remember when celebrities Twitter accounts were hacked and the boy that hacked it made a direction on what people must do and where they should deposit their investments. But all of it was a scam and many have been a victim of it. And that can be the same whenever an official Twitter account of a project gets hacked. That was one of the craziest hacks ever and from there, it had made another BS thought from no coiners that crypto is just all scam. I do hope that people won't be scammed by that account.

• Teen 'mastermind' pleads guilty to celeb Twitter hack (https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56429204)
• Man Behind Infamous Twitter Celebrity Hack Charged With $784,000 Crypto Theft (https://decrypt.co/85248/man-behind-infamous-twitter-celebrity-hack-charged-784000-crypto-theft)

That's a common sense, but if the reputation of the owner of the giveaway exceeds the suspicion and there's zero indication that it's a scam then why not jump right in? Also it's a good habit that you always check their partners Twitter handles to see if the facts are corroborated, it's going to save you a lot of heartache since that habit as a first line of defense is going to protect you against scammers.

So get in the habit of being skeptical of any offers even by reputable people especially regarding free lunch money.
No one deserves to be fully trusted on the internet, but greed and laziness are the main reasons people get scammed which bypasses important processes to identify scams.

You deleted the part where I exactly said that. Don't blame the victims, it's not greed from the people who gets scammed that needs to be blamed, it's the scammers that we should be blaming, who wouldn't say no to something when there's a sign that says it's free? I'm sure some asshole out there would pretend that they would say no to that just to be different but my point is, you're blaming the wrong side in this, the victims just needs to be informed and educated about the different types of scam and they're good to go.

I don't know if this is good to hear since by getting their twitter account get hack we can think about their platform security. If they cannot secure their social media account how much more when we talk about the more bigger picture? Its crazy to think that they are been hack so I guess its better think twice than feel sorry later about them.

Also if there's sudden tweets like they offer something impossible then its good to ignore it since most provably their account same like this is already compromise and the hacker of that account want to scam their supporter by offering to shady offers.

A scammer always plays with our emotion of greed, and that's the most powerful weapon of the scammer. I have seen multiple scams happening these days in the name of crypto currencies. They are basically breaking the heart of the investors about crypto-currencies because those scammers are targeting the investors who are new in the world of crypto-currencies, and they are investing in new pre-sale projects to earn some good revenue when the coin officially launches.

I have seen there are many such type of scammers who are offering fake giveaways to manipulate the crypto currency users. And, on Telegram I have seen that those scammers put picture of a very hot female on their profiles and seduces the users to send them crypto in order to have sexual relationship with them. Those females are males actually, and the worst thing is that they use AI voice changers to change their voice as a female. Many users have been scammed that way.

When it comes to Twitter, then there are so many scammers who sometimes copy the official account name of a project, and then they get fake followers for their account. Once they successfully make more than 10K followers then they target the members of the project, and send them messages in the name of fake giveaways or other social engineering tricks. They have compromised many users money that way, and they are still constantly doing that.

In twitter? With a deposit requirement? Or a private key requirement for a "legit" giveaway? Nah, people with that kind of mindset always the first victim of this kind of scheme. Especially for a verified account who does not make giveaways then suddenly created one in skeptical way.

Hacking popular Twitter accounts and using those accounts to tweet various fake giveaways is nothing new. We have witnessed such incidents a few years back. If you see any kind of giveaway on Twitter, you should participate after verifying it at the highest level. So crypto users should be careful to control their emotions, so that such moves by scammers fail miserably.

I understand that, and it almost the hackers way to say that the account has been hacked, rather than a way to collect money. Instead of saying that this account has been hacked, they tweet such a link, and soon everyone will know that suspicious activity has occurred on the account. Perhaps the goal of the hackers is the data in the account more than profits due to free bitcoin giveaway links.

Main intention of those social media accounts hacking is to scam their blind followers. We always see this happening where after the hacking incident hacking then weird post will follow related to crypto and then after that a outrageous giveaways will came out and giving to good to be true profit to those people who will participate on their fake activity. If people didn't get any update about those hacking for sure they are the one who gonna catch those offer and to bad for them if they deposit any amount on those hackers.

Well I'm not gonna delete any part, looks like you've drawn a conclusion.
Criminals are always guilty, for sure. Then who guarantees that educated people wont make mistakes even in the things they do everyday? Being a victim of scam doesn't mean lack of knowledge and unfortunately scammers don't selectively ensnare victims.
Anyway, you could read this story, then think about what you might say to educate the victim. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5432665.0

Newbies need to get out of thinking that they will become rich overnight by participating in such fake giveaways. And as a result, the purpose of scammers is easily successful. Scammers use people's greed to steal money and personal information of crypto users. Scammers have not hacked popular accounts and posted fake giveaways for the past few months, now they have started again. So now it can be said that more such incidents will be seen in the next few days.

Now the main thing is to understand the reasons why these accounts were hacked, so that this does not happen in the future. But I assume that this was the fault of the account owners, since it was with SEO LayerZero, who on his Twitter page said that it was his fault and the scammers, based on his discarded document, were able to reissue the SIM card and gain access to his account.