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Not only are the scammers doing the fake accounts that say "send .02 BTC and get triple" but apparently now they are either buying verified accounts or hacking them and changing the names and pictures to cryptocurrency people. Now it can actually be hard to tell if someone is scamming.


An example:https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/967887920991559681


Really shitty that this is happening. Be careful everyone

This is very unfortunate. There are always people out there trying to game any system rather than doing things right. Sad.

Yikes. How the hell are the scammers getting the blue "verified" tick? Shouldn't be that easy right? Twitter needs to up their game as soon as possible.

They are hacking people outside of cryptocurrency with verified badges and then changing their name. On other platforms, if you change your name you have to get reverified ( which only seems right ) but I guess on twitter you don't have too.

Not only are the scammers doing the fake accounts that say "send .02 BTC and etc. . There are always people out there trying to game any system rather than doing things right.

Scammers are everywhere now. They take advantage on cryptocurrency popularity to gain money from unknowledge people.
So always becareful with this modus. Dont ever fall on their hole by checking every detail possible before doing transaction.

Thats scamming scheme of doubler is normal but if i where you dont invest to all doubler and tripler. Lot of people doing some dummy accounts for scamming like creating fake admins in icos.

Scammers are scammers,we cant do anything about them but to put extra cares,and dont just trust anyone that offers you something like big income without doing appropriate to earn such offer..and most of the time people become victims becauseof greediness,not thinking of right thing but just to earn from nothing

Oooh. This makes more sense. They probably target the not-so-famous verified people on twitter right? And yea, why the heck are they free to change their names without a re-verification. Huge flaw on Twitter's part for sure. These scammers are freakin clever though.

People should really be smart enough to know not to fall for such scams. There was another case with someone posing as Ethereum founder, saying send 0.5 ETH and get 5 ETH in return. Seriously, how gullible can people be? If Vitalik wanted to give away ETH, wouldn't it be easier to just say "post your ETH address here and receive 5ETH"? Why would he have to take ETH from you first? People need to wise up!

Some people are just simply getting blinded by their greed, unfortunately. Everyone just wants to get rich, and they saw this opportunity as a sort of easy-way-out of poverty. The poor gets poorer, I guess. Look at the bright side though, they most probably learned their lesson.

That's how the smart scam the poors. Twitter must take action to eliminate this issue which has already plagued the entire Twitter for a very long time. Hope those get scammed learn a lesson and be smart next time.

If this is true it should be reported to Twitter management, and the real account owner should also report this to authorities because they are using this for nefarious activities, and this will ruin their reputation.

just because some account on Twitter or elsewhere says verified doesn't mean what they say is also gold. and it is not just about scamming, there is a lot of bullshit out there from actual people with verified accounts spreading FUD and misinformation. and i'd say the hardness of telling if they are scamming or not depends on the person reading this stuff. some people are simply gullible and would fall for anything even if it were a random twitter account created yesterday.

Report them to twitter so they're forced to make changes. These are getting ridiculous though. It's starting to seem to me like there are more scammers in crypto than any other industry. They must love that the transactions are irreversible.

As a side note, I would also consider McAfee's ICO investment advice to be somewhat scammish, but maybe that's just me.

Yeah i always see like that scam. Scammer do anything to get money even though people will mad on him. He dont care about you. Thats why we need more extra careful. And i think avoid investing in a yoken that didnt have enough information like white paper or etc that make as satisfy.

why they (scammers) get verified badge? yes, sometimes i get message by pm twitter, to click links, i think this is scammer too

Yes, there are a lot of scammers out on Twitter. When I first got real into crypto, I almost fell for a fake message that came from an account that copied the name and picture of a CEO of one of the coins and it said they'd send 3 ETH if I sent them a little bit. Now it sounds crazy that people would even think about this but it happens and almost got me. Twitter needs to fix this asap!

While it's horrible what they're doing, people kinda have to be scammed in order to notice that people on the internet are not always good people. It's a lesson that you learn by paying, and we're all trying to teach the lesson for free to people. Though some will only learn by paying the price.

It gives us a horrible name in crypto to have this sort of thing happening though, hope these people get in some big trouble when the time comes for them.

There are a lot of scammers trying to take advantages on beginners in crypto. If anyone have friends that interested in crypto, teach them and let them know all about cryptocurrencies, don't let them get scammed. If a lot of peoples get scammed they won't believe in cryptocurrency.

The scammers are hacking or buying accounts of users who are unrelated to cryptocurrency and have verified badges. They are then changing the names and pictures on the account to impersonate cryptocurrency people like the one in the picture.

Very useful information. I think it's necessary to be very cautious, unfortunately there are also swindles on the Internet. Twitter should monitor and prune such actions.

hell with these scammers! these shits are just making crypto kook bad to regular people!

this has to be stopped. more people will become victims especially now that scammers use verified account for their tricks. stuffs like this has to be filtered and regulated.

This is really insane, would be nice if these people would try and improve the community. Some of this stuff is "smart", so their brains could be used differently.

But in retrospect, people will learn from this and be smarter in the future. Some mistakes are necessary and some lessons are indeed expensive but at the cost of learning.

Really doesn't help too much.

Thats why some people are afraid to enter in cryto world, we cannot eliminate those scammers, but we can avoid them. Before you do something always think twice before you begin. Dont trust people that are offering something. Sometimes our commonsense is enough to avoid those scammer.
Always becareful because scammers are everywere there are just waiting for the right person and for the right timing.

Greedy people believe in what they can get many times just by sending money away. Do not stupidly think in such newsletters on twitter because they are impostors. No stupid person can give you anything only one send from you.

Well, I have experienced such kind of scam on Facebook, A page called Stellar Lumens shared my two public posts/photos and they are claiming some giveaway, I even reported these pages to Facebook but Facebook didn't take any action. This is very disappointing to see that scammers are using these popular sites without any trouble, strict action must be taken to stop these scammers.

Thank you very much for this important warning!
It is so sad that people are using technology to steal from others!

It is important to emphasis, especially to crypto currencies' newbies, that giving away/losing your private key to strangers is
equal to removing your front door in front of burglars!

Well after this if there's someone asking you to send them money don't do that even if they verified on twitter. You should be making a research before trusting someone to hold your money. Honestly, I just don't get it with those who trust some random people on the internet.

This is why I always tell those newbies, to not giving someone their private key, sending coin to people that claimed they can double their coins, making them rich in one night, blah, blah, and blah,preventing criminal is not an easy thing but at least we can teach people how to protect their wealth and not to get scam easily.

Unfortunately there are lots of scammers and people who believe them are now scammed. It is important to research and to get informed when something like this appears

People are very naive and should not believe in anything that writes and what someone is writing to a private reprimand..because that's actually a lot of stuff now..you have $ 300 on you for 15 minutes back $ 3000 I mean stupid who would believe it but unfortunately like I said.people are naive

Fortunately we have John Mcafee to tell us what is right and what is bad  ;D

Just today 3 scammers have text me in telegram to join "thair" Ico... Thay become more and more for day by day!
Its realy bad for crypto world, and makes everything very risky
be carefull everybody  

And they are using every opportunity they get.
Just when Elon Musk shot his tesla into space with his new Falcon Heavy 9, you could find exactly those scam attempts written in the name of Musk:
'Give me 0.2ETH and you get 2 ETH back, to celebrate the successful start of the new rocket!'
I really hope nobody actually believed that!

Its a very big problem. Every day strangers write me: Please visit my site, read my article, do you want free money ect.- and send me virus link  :-[

it's just right to take care of scammers at the present time so much scammers are spreading on social media and not just in twitter with scammers but also many other internet aps, including facebook and many more, awesome scammers now and they've come to the twitter and facebook sites they can steal your account if they want it so always be careful and always check the twitter account and changed the password.

I think the idea of earning bitcoin quickly just by sending to an unknown address is quite shady already. As bitcoin is gaining popularity in the mainstream news it is now treated as an asses thus if you value your bitcoin it would be under your own decision to send it to an unknown wallet. We should never think that earning bitcoin so quickly is the best way to multiply it. I feel for those who fall into this kinds of scam. Scammers like these only arise if there are people that are willing to be fooled.

Being hearing about this stuff, it's pretty crazy hackers are getting bolder and bolder stealing cryptocurrency. The best way to stop it is educate everyone so they know to avoid scams, phishing, malware and viruses too.

Which is why i thought I should post this, as it might save some people in the future.

This is still very much alive so I hope people are using caution when talking with people on Twitter or clicking links.

Anyone who spent a minimal amount of time on the internet has learned that cyberspace is home to a plaque of scams designed to exact money from unsuspecting victim, collect and use private information and even seize control of their computers through malicious hacks. Social networking sit Twitter is not immune to scammers in fact , the rate in which Twitter scam are being discovered and reported is growing steadily as more sophisticated criminals try their hand and Twitter scam. Another Twitter scam send a message to Twitter users to convince them that they have just won a free cellphone and provide a link to claim their prize Clicking the link sends users to a websites where they need to fill out their current cellphone number and a few minor details.The scam then succeeds in enrolling the user in a subscription text service of one kind or another.                                                                                         It is important always  to remember never give anyone information without  being able to accurately verify who they are and always type the Twitter Web address into a browser yourself in order to login rather than using links provided in emails.

Thank you for your reminder.by the way yes I have encounter scammer not only in Twitter also in telegram and Facebook.so I know it's not true that my money become triple that scammer is really crazy.they are many and more,i hope someday they pay for all bad for there victim

It so sad when you see a friend working tirelessly to earn a living and some from no where is also work tirelessly on how to hack and steal his money. Too bad, people are wicked

No way to avoid this, as there are lots of beggar with no reasoning in twitter and other platforms like telegram groups. To me, it is not theft but just a natural selection from this point of view.

I think anyone who says things like that shouldn't be taken seriously... Doesn't matter if they have the "blue verification" or not, it's not real... Maybe that is a new niche people have found to make profit, to sell verified accounts to scammers. But come on, it's very easy to avoid such scammers, just don't send money to them and you will be fine, ignore these offers or report to Twitter.

There are more sofisticated scams on the internet and about those you really need to take extra precautions.

By a similar principle, torrents work. You install a program, and someone else does the same. After that, you can transfer files to each other directly, without the involvement of any servers, and with little or no control.

Not everyone is able to see the obv scam.

1) Those offers regarding doubling or tripling the money are always fake. This is also done on a large scale in Facebook groups and I think they might be able to find some innocent people falling for this. This is one of the worst ways to make money as the person is scamming.

2) Regarding hacking the Twitter accounts and changing names to crypto, this is also for money. There are so many legal ways to make money and it really makes  me feel sorry for people going to such low levels to earn their livelihood.

This is why facebook and twitter are banning cryptocurrency ads, due to the high number of scams being carried out on these platforms using cryptocurrencies Ads. A lot of people do not do research into cryptos so they take these information from these scammers as the truth since they do not know much about bitcoin. Everyone should be careful who they do transactions with.

wow thanks for your info, lately i saw scammer like that in twitter, at the first time i dont know that is a scam but i just realized that, its not possible that can make many money without effort and no risk. just double and triple your bitcoin in one night? haha immposible

Yes many of the hacking series are happening right now on twitter.
So we should be careful, Especially we do not know who we can trust.

Like my friend who lost twitter because of hacking it!

Yes be very careful on twitter. This is why bans are being put in place and there are so many scammers right now and these people are destroying the reputation of bitcoin.

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You know what if people are so stupid and they still believe in such an occasion this is their problem and I am not sorry for them at all. This is so old scam that I just don't believe that anybody can still be a victim of this super deals. Nobody gives you money for free, especially in crypto. If something looks like a scam, smells like a scam then probably it is a scam and you should be warned.

This cannot be said enough times. The amount of scammers on twitter is alarming. What makes me sad is that there are people who fall for these scams everyday and end up thinking bitcoin is a scam and they no longer buy into the market.

Another important fact is what will be the rate of bitcoin and any other crypto currency, although analysts predict that in 2018 the cost of one bitcoin will be $ 7500, and accordingly it will not be difficult to calculate future revenues.

Swindlers everywhere, already got people who want to take control of someone else's money without applying special efforts. If this is true, then Twitter should pay attention to it in the shortest possible time and correct mistakes, as it hits the reputation greatly .

Hard to detect such scammers?? Only greedy person will give such excuse for being scammed and be fooled by such unbelievable deal.. There is a reason for everything,, scam bags are often given random messages like that,, but that won’t be enough when the receiver have no interest to it..

Our ignorance is not about what we think is right,, but for what we can earn.. To be greedy is our way and almost all used it for they’re advantage..

I have reported quite a few accounts already.
I suggest for everyone to do the same when they encounter these people.

Be very careful - sometimes scammers coexist almost everything .. and the name of sites and names and tags, but the difference is sometimes only one character ... Be careful, do not send private keys and purse addresses to anyone ..

Scammers are using twitter to get people secret information and we have to be careful. It has happened to me when I joined Twitter campaign for dextrocoin but  I couldn't be trapped. The manager kept sending me message through twitter to know more about me but I refused. I was not paid for the campaign I participated but he was interested in my details. We should be very careful.

I could understand someone very new to this market could fall for that, but even in the non crypto world if a deal is too good to be true you should probably stay away. However, can you also change the “username” on Twitter? (What comes after the @) Besides the name and the blue mark I always check the username to ensure it is legit, but if you can simply purchase a verified account and change everything, including the username, what is the point of getting verified at all? That would be ridiculous on Twitter’s end, and a major security issue.

Never on my experience tell you do not go on the links that are sent by unknown people. This certainly will always lead to a greater percentage of the danger that your social network may be hacking.

The user of the payment network Vitcoin independently decides when to complete the stage of confirmation of the transaction, with six confirmations the transaction is already becoming safe.

I am new to the crypto and already lost 0.4 BTC to the twitter scam.
The link to the so called 5K BTC giveaway initiated on this forum, pointing to exchange owner ( cz_binance) verified twitter account on which imposter posted a large banner with the deal right after the API swap. So it sounded like the Binance owner was apologizing for the API incident and makeing it up by offering an 5000 BTC giweaway. It looked legit, posted from the CZ twitter verified time line. And the page it was sending you too was showing live, incoming orders, very realistic call to action. I have been to IM for over 10 years and have avoided most of the scams but this one came from the Binance owner twitter account , how was I to think he would allow scammers to post such material on his timeline.Dont they periodically filter whats posted?
Anyways,they just now suspended abusive twitter account but their website asking to deposit BTC is still up.

anyone saying that send 0.2btc and get triple is trying to scam you. No matter if the account is verified or not. Whatever is happening on twitter, it's ridiculous to trust it unless it has proper background.

If my opinion facebook and twitter prohibit advertising cryptocurrency, of course because of the many fraud committed on this platform using cryptocurrency ads. Many people do not do research on cryptocurrancy so they take this information from these scammers as truth because they do not know much about Bitcoin. I was not paid for the campaign I was following but he was interested in my details. We must be very careful.

As a business move, it makes sense for them to not allow ICO advertising etc. To many people falling for fairly obvious scams, and of course a lot of dishonest people.

Yes it is important I was seen last some days lot twitter scammers post by using John Mcafee name giveaway 1000 ETH, 1000 BTC so please avoid this thing all are the scammer running the phishing websites.

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Only in cryptocurrency there is a scam inside the scammer. In fact I will never send assets like ETH or BTC that are not clear for what, even for the obvious I would think a thousand times to do it. Giveaway or even to create an account to invest for trading. Now cryptocurrency is fulfilled by that, and only we that can determine and keep from being deceived.

Really there are lots of scammers not only on facebook and twitter even on blockchain but,  the reason why those scammers do succeed is that many people are just too greedy and desperate to make it just over night which is very bad. I will advice that we should all learn to be patient, work for your money you will enjoy and smiles at the end of the day instead of being a victim.

There are lots of people nowadays that do things that is beyond the boundaries of truth. People will keep on doing the bad thing just to gain and earn money even if they know it is not the right way. Scammers are wandering anywhere everywhere around us, most especially here in the crypto currency community. We should take double or triple care to not become one of the victims of scammers.

Yes. There is a lot of people who are just scam other people instead of helping them. Not only on twitter you can scam but also in many websites and other social media. It is really hard to trust anyone today especially here in social media. Beware and be aware of scammers, if you think you can not trust someone then do not.

not just twitter but all website beware of fake site that have you friend that sending it to you. you need to secure it in your google website if they have green lock it's means it safe but if you are not sure in website just search it in google and the top of it it is the true and secure website or i have a suggest to you. you need to search in google website secure and click it. then click you website and try to put in URL in secure website then it's loading if they the website is secure or not.

This is a cheap scam, and I will not believe in them, the foolish ones with the easy-going mind will become the prey for wild animals. You should carefully check the information of any person on the social network before depositing because everything can be fraud.

Yes it is true, now scammers are getting more and more clever, now it is increasingly difficult to tell which scammers and who are not. So we should always stay alert and always check every account before buying BTC or other cyptocurrency

frankly, I've never been involved in such scams, but it's sad when people count your work want to earn)))

Even not on telegram alone.
All of a sudden, you might just find yourself in an airdrop telegram group or channels asking you to send 0.01eth to receive 222,222units of there worthlesss scam tokens. One just have to be very careful, quite a number of it are on twitter as you just said.
Lets watch out guys!!!

They are actually everywhere, not just in Twitter & Facebook but on other social networks as well. And bit hard to distinguish whether that one with dummy accounts are scammers or not, we can only determine if they start to offer suspicious schemes. We shouldn't not easy to fall by them.

Thank you for the reminder, only one thing to avoid this kind of strategy of the scammers do not gives trust without any proper proofs the legality of their offers need also to investigate for the security purposes.

There are many such fraudsters every day. In recent years, the price of bitcoin has been getting higher and higher. Many fraudsters try to make use of the fast dissemination function of social media. I think there will be more and more deception in the future.

Mostly those greed are the victims of this kind of schemes that become blinded when the offers of multiple profit had been offered,and for me thats the best thing to happen so they will learned from experience

But for many users who might become victims,better to verify first those offering before bite the baits

I really feel sad to hear all this. People are using social networking websites in completely wrong way.

Also, we should remember that how a normal user sees social networking websites is very much different in comparison to that of people like us who are active in crypto and online world. Many of them are innocent and thus fall for all this. There should be very strict laws against all this all over the world.

Every twitter feed, post, tweets the scammer posting thousand of post, and I do not understand why twiiter not taking any action. they are scamming thousand of people, lots of people losing money.

Nowadays many fake account use, to fool people. The scammer take advantage the internet today to steal money from people especially in a social media site specifically twitter, just a blink of an eye thousand of money get scammed.

Scammers trying to give us offers to multiplying bitcoins and trying to say give u good returns also many scammers making fake websites of exchanges and wallets where peoples put their id and password then scammers steal their bitcoins before one week one antminer told me i am doing mining and taking one time 71$ fee and daily give u 106$ but he don't know mining is costly need costly hardware and electricity so we need to aware from this kind of Scammers.

Thanks for this information. I am new in crypto and not really into twitter but will watchout for this shitty scam so i dont fall a victim. Scamming rate increasing daily.

I was a victim of this ugly incidents and I lost a twitter account of over 3000 followers. I do not know what happened but i could no longer log into my account and the password were changed by some body who logged in from Russia. This experience was painful and real everyone should protect their account securely.

Scammets tend to do all the possible tricks just to hooked up people who has an easy getting convinced. The thing is, when scammers are convincing us about something that we think it is impossible to happen, then ignore them, go away and do not entertained such because it is for sure just a trick of scam.

Only dumb will get scammed to this.
There's no way a public figure in crypto giveaway their crypto, they just share knowledge and never give crypto for free

Its a trouble that there are people like that everywhere, especially for the new ones that start. When they see that there is so much money, they throw themselves and do not get anything, in fact they take them away.

thanks for the info! but I think that any adequate person should understand that everyone can not send their money! especially to send people who wrote something somewhere! you need to be careful with all social sites!

There are just people that got consumed by greed. Looking for any ways just to get money out of peope. Twitter should try to impleement something against this. This is just unfortunate.

Even if you report the situation to twitter management they won't do much cause the case is not new and twitter management are yet to do something about it. Meanwhile, Facebook secure their user by temporarily close any account or group which find suspicious unless they provide all the necessary documents. I wonder why some bounty owner even do twitter campaign.

twitter scammers target newbies in market eth free giver away all these kind of tricks they follow to attack newbies better new investors stay away from these kind of scams

More and more people are getting involved in virtual world so there are more and more space for hackers. Only constant studying of the new technologies and vigilance can help to avoid scammers and hackers.

I have observed this several times but still surprised the way they get the verified badge.

That's true with a new technology and new platforms scammer and hackers will also diversify and populate these new avenues so being vigilant at all times is essential.

Anyone requesting you to send some ethereum or bitcoin in the first instance with the promise of doubling or tripling it in a couple of hours already spells scam, no need to look further or check the authenticity of their twitter account

So i noticed on john mcafee and few other of those users when they make a post, the first few responses that always show up are fake accounts whether its a fake mcafee account or binance or coinbase or similar thing and it gives you a link and tells you to read this.  Also i seen the send x amount of btc or eth and receive x amount later on.


First off, if you click on these links on your phone, does that mean your phone is automatically compromised?  What about if you click on these links on your computer?  Im not talking about the ones where they ask you to send btc or eth to so and so address but the ones that always post a link and says read this.  Does clicking on those links automatically make your phone or computer compromised if you have any crypto or sensitive information on your phone or computer?

There are too many people that is very knowledgeable about the bitcoin and because of that they use their knowledge about bitcoin and they are very very abusive with their power and knowledge. They used this to scammed many people in different platforms of social media. Twitter is very known as globally and because of that there are too many people using it.

A sadly truth in bitcoin industry. Even many good things are giving off by bitcoin there are still people  who abuse this and sadly used thisn for bad intentions. I hope that we would be more careful in having transaction of our bitcoin. Lets check.or verify first before having a transaction

Every day, scammers are becoming more and more ... They use the popularity of crypto currency to deceive honest people. It is necessary to be vigilant and always check dubious messages and the like before making transactions.

As much as possible please be the one who avoid scammers because prevention is still better than cure. We can't afford to be scammed so please do what you have to do to avoid them. Get away from them and act wisely so that your safety will not be compromise. Remember that our account is so precious and we can't afford to lose it so as much as possible avoid them in twitter.

It's just so sad that nowadays scammers will do anything they can just to harm others and get what they want. It's a total bad news for all of us since twitter is now also being used as a way to scam. Well all that we can do is to act wisely so that scammers can't do what they want. Let's do our best to avoid those people and stop them from doing such things.

Not just mcafee,  even LTC founder Charlie,  BCH founder Roger Ver and ETH founder Vitalik are being impersonate by scammers.
I guess there must be a crypto guy inside Twitter and there must be a scam report option in the Twitter report.

This is a bad news. Nowadays there are a lot of scammers out there. They are always aiming to be newbie and less experienced. we must always be careful.

It is undeniable if fraud including scams via twitter is hard to know. Hackers are smart, they have many cunning ways to hack. They justify any means to gain what is not their right. I can only suggest for twitter managers to create some more complex security code especially for crypto currency where this security code can minimize fraud. I just pray that these hackers will immediately realize and not take the rights of others. If there is no hacker then the competition in crypto currency can be healthier.

Every people always ambition with so much material, to reach this many kind of thing that people does. From scammer or hacker. Especially crypto world where the money is so easy, it will make so much scammer. For example, make airdrop then make airdrop twitter account, tell us to send 0.001 eth to get much coins that promising but in the end we get nothing. Maybe we get it but it doesn't have any value.

Scammers can buy verified accounts then they can change the name and its info but still verified? this is the red flag for the twitters part they should do something about this, fraudsters are smart these days a simple loophole can be an effective weapon to steal people's money, Twitter should unverify the profile once the user changes its name and info we should be wary about this, don't click nor follow any fishy promotions and airdrops.

Yes,it is a matter of sorrow that someone use this account for this type of work. By the way,twitter is also used in many evil work now. Some people do this but they are really bad people who don't belong this forum. On the other hand, some people also use the same twitter account in the ICO google form when they want to promote a bounty. As an assistant,I saw that now-a-days.

Thanks for the warning, i may know now that even twitter accounts getting hacked to be use on some dirty trick just to collect crypto currency,  how sad, instead of doing things right and be an influencer to the other, they choose to become a bad people. Lets just compete each other not just to do something that not fair.

I am sorry to say this but anybody that falls for these scam is just blinded by greed. Why would anybody ask u for eth to give u  a coin that is suppose  to be an airdrop. That's enough red light .but then no matter dumb a scam is Somebody will always fall for it that's why facebook, twitter, btctalk, telegram  scams will always strive.

People call bitcoin a bubble or a scam or a chit fund company because of these people only who are doing such a negative shit with the bitcoin, like any chit fund company they will promise you to double your coins but when you pay them, they will run with all your money, I also once get scammed, one site naming, bitcointalkaccounts.com has promised me to give me a bitcoin account and when a made payment, they blocked me and didn’t gave any account so I will suggest you that be aware from all these scams and enjoy your bitcoining.

The scammers are everywhere now and one has to be very carefully in order not to fall victim of scam. Not only on Twitter but everywhere. They have been able to have several contact information of people by collating them through fake airdrop announcement.

One need to be extra careful. Scammers are real. they do not work to achieve their own success. they like already made. so so sad anyway.

This is quite unfortunate that we have such dishonest people around, we need to be cautious when we are online. Twitter is full of scammers, let's beware.

yes, the account they are hacking does not recognize crypto, they hack it and change it as if they are professionals in crypto.
twitter is not as tight as facebook, facebook is not as easy as changing a different name away from the previous name, but why do people still use twitter? is not facebook safer?

The best way to stop it is educate everyone so they know to avoid scams, phishing, malware and viruses too.

Scammers is now everywhere so be careful and neg late unknown person with communicate you know talking and transaction with that unknown person do not talk.

I don't why there still people are choosing scam and fool people instead of doing right they doing wrong that make them karma and sins, Scammers are everywhere because they want a high money profit to unknowledge people all we need to do to avoid a victim of scammers be careful to people of stranger that you encounter.

Yes , I too noticed that .. and there are some group of hackers who hack accounts and sell for the people to do crypto related promotions. especially for the bounty hunters. This is not good !

Yes they are doing scamming like this twitter taking action on it lots of fake accounts blocked now

A sad truth about the bitcoin market. Since bitcoin become popular many people used it to scam to other people. They rather used dummy accounts on twitter promising a high rate of btc for change of money or hacking their account. It can cause doubts for investors. For all.of these we must be aware of the right way of using bitcoins

This is really a good time to be vigilant on the internet. A whole lot of things may look real but will eventually be a scam. First of all, you should check a lot of social media platforms to confirm the originality of a project and not from one source.

This kind of Twitter scams are really very common. The most annoying thing is that apart from them just tweeting from their scam Twitter handles, they also spam you several times tagging you in the tweets. Most of them do it to raise Twitter followers and also to steal from people. Twitter need to take action against such criminals. This is why I no longer participate in Twitter airdrops.

While bitcoin gains its popularity many people uses it in a bad cause. It is a sad reality that bitcoin market is facing. Scammers used dummy accounts on twitter which says promise of gaing bitcoin by sending them off some crypto or cash. Other form scam.can be in form of hacking your account thru sending dm that when you click.automatically gives you a virus which used.in hacking.

beware of scammer on Twitter yes many people are now scammer they want to get your money or token  .. but you can avoid this people dont click any link to direct msg because..

We all must be very careful joining a new project and opening some links. If you don't treat information about it you can be even hacked

wow, go crazy. what they will not come up with and why people will not come for money

Now they hacking twitter to get lots of followers instantly, i'm sure those people hacking twitter account are bounty hunters because only bounty hunting need much followers to gain huge profit, or this hacker hack twitter account specially with huge followers then sell it to bounty hunters, not good.

Ive had two Twitter scammer try it on in the last 20 mins. Getting tired of it all now. Happens on telegram too to me

the recent social media industry has been battling with series of hacking operations most especially with accounts of facebook and twitter. i will advice that all should activate the two-factor authentication on all social media accounts to avoid having their accounts being hijacked by scammers.

Has anyone notice whenever mcafee or charlie lee makes a tweet, the first few tweets that show up under it is the scammer pretending to be macafee or that ETH guy and then they say send 0.1 eth or 0.1 btc and get back 1 eth or 1 btc?  And then they post a link right below it in the next tweet etc?  There is like 3 tweets right below the mcafee tweet and they post a link or 2 links.


Does anyone know if clicking those links automatically make whatever device you use hacked whether its your phone or your computer?  I assume if its your phone, its not that bad if you dont keep your coins there?  However, wouldnt they have access to your email account though if you click on the link and say you are signed in your email on your phone which almost everyone does?


What if you click on it on your computer?  Do you automatically get hacked with whatever wallet or email when you log into computer?  Or its only if you click on the link and then enter some information?  Example i know if you click on certain phishing sites and put in account details, you get hacked that way.  But i like to know does clicking on those links automatically mean you get hacked?

Not only on twitter you can be scammed even facebook all we need to do is to becearful and don't just send your token to unknown  person to get it doubled

They are everywhere now, swindling money from newbies and even those whom have been long in the game, I think this forum should have a thread for information and update on the style in which this people operate

I think bitcoin is suppose to be most trustable and confidential site and crypto currency in terms is security and it is just next to impossible to hack or crack any bitcoin transactions and I think there must be a tag line for them that we are known for the security but no one can control the fraud, it’s totally depends on the user , bitcoin clearly states that be very much cautious while transacting through any unknown user because they could not be verified and the same issue has happen with me , I got looted with thousands of bitcoin in like one of these frauds.

wow, there are many scammers in the world, from the Phising, until right now fake promotion like that, I don't know why the scammers are happy to steal our coin, from this forum, telegram, until verified twitter account. i hope you guys need careful because of this, don't believe in the news like send your ETH and you will get doubled, its 100% fake

People now use to farm followers pretending that they have giveaways. Also they use twitter for selling token what do we could selfdrop but paying amount of eth and you will received big number of token but people did not know that the project is not exiting with out website community etc. People need to be careful in this matte.


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Te cryptocurrency industry has grown into a billion dollar industry and many scammers has turned to cryptocurrency to scam people in any way possible, so you need to protect yourself and your investment as well, if you are well educated this is not going to happen to you.

The world of crypto currency is now become a very rich world and at the same time it become the first target of the stammers and the authority also would some steps on it.

Well if you have to warn a person to not fall for the "send .02 BTC and get triple" it's a lost case. Any human being falling for that is driven by greed.  :o

Why do people believe in such messages, the swindler can be seen at once - they promise income simply from the sky? ???
Those who send their Bitcoin, they themselves are willing to get easy income and lose everything. :-\

I don't know why the scammers prefer twitter for bitcoin scamming, but we should always be careful and not only twitter but also from all kind of scamming.

This is happening of recent, scammers are now using this and telling people to send eth to recieve double or triple. A friend of mine even sent some eth . so sad he did so before telling me. Lets all just watch very well. There is a way to know these scammers. There is always diffrrence between real and clone account. Dong rush or hurry to do anything, check well before doing anything.

Bitcoin is very valuable. If any one offer you send some amount of bitcoin and give you return double or triple. It not possible. You should understand some one try to take your all money. So be aware and going to smoothly with cryptocurrency.

Wow ... These scammers can really go to any length to carry out their activities :-\

its all over ever other social media platform where bitcoin is been transacted, one just need to be extremely careful of the scammers.

I can't understand who believes in this. Nobody will give you free money, but people want to get it. I have a friend who has sent nearly 0,2 ETH and lost them... It you want to earn money or digital assets, you should make something!

It’s not easy to believe this message. But tks for warning us.

Yes be aware about what happening now and also not only in twitter ,also all social media sites and not believing fast about some news,for avoiding fake news you must make a research about the real one.

That is true my sister experienced that kind of hacking same thing transferred .02 btc and get almost all the coins she had in her wallet. We should really be careful never trust anyone and keep our wallet secured.

How have they managed to hack on twitter accounts? Are their security too low? Twitter is one of the billion dollars companies so I thought their security is the latest.

yeah. there are a lot of people using twitter for scamming, like they are cloning any project and they offering selfdrop but unfortunately its there tactics

This is so sad, i think there should be action needed on this, if we are letting them to do it, i guess a lot of investors would back out and the bitcoin price again will crash.

I'm so glad I don't use twitter or any other social media websites. I heard facebook got something similar and even google stepped up to deny the ICO's promotion but somehow this got uplifted so now a bunch of ICO's ads are everywhere on social medias so it was normal for the hackers to try to get some account or some coins.

I have also encountered fake guys on the forum, so angry about their actions. They are acting like thieves  >:(. I am so sorry for you   :'(

Thanks for the warning thread, not only twitter but in Facebook as well. But for that twitter post, I'm not quite sure if he's promoting their own McAfee product to avoid the scammers, or he's concerning about us.

Twitter has good security in my opinion because Twitter is one of the social media that is used by everyone in this world. is it a doubt

Agree with you nowadays hacker are everywhere and some of them using someone identity to scam someone specially newbie they are easily jump into this and when they scam they will cry. Thank you for this warning so I'm aware so we must put more security in our account to avoid this kind of scenario and we should take an action for this before it was too late for us.

There are scammer and fraudsters everywhere. These so called social media giants do not know, how to stop such menace or they are willingly allowing them to survive to help security firms.

The only thing that we need to do is to understand that NOTHING IS FREE in this world.

It is always good to avoid such offers and still if you want to avail such offer, It is good to verify them.

Really annoying. But there are really bad people out there, wolves in sheep's clothing. And no matter how we try to put a stop to their activities, another bunch will spring out.

So i guess the best way to dodge such scams is to avoid greed as well. Never be blinded by the triple your money investment schemes or anything as such.

As what you cited, people get enticed since the amount to be invested is not so big yet the return is tripled.  But when one really thinks of it, how can they do that? And in such a short span of time only? When you question the means, then there's a good probability that one won't get duped that easily.

Let's make our lives less stressful. So yeah if someone sent you a message and you didn't know him personally then don't mind it and even he's telling you that he'll give the world. Nonetheless, we all want to have an easy money but if this will just ruin everything that we've work for then cut it early.

Always remember that they'll continue to scam people if they'd see that there are people who easily fall to them.

Surely, demons sometomes pretend to be an angel tho.

Such schemes are designed for new people, a beginner is more trustful user! Similar schemes a couple of times met and me, I usually ignore all such actions!who knows more than that scheme of struggle? I think we all just need to be careful and question everything! ::) ::) ::)

Indeed. Scammers is everywhere, and its very hard to stopped. For those people who not aware yet with scam please take a moment to realize how dangerous the scam is for your wallet. Just be careful everytime you decided to put your wallet infomation on the internet.

nor when he did not understand scammers. why you can not earn honestly how you can cheat people to earn money and at the same time to sleep peacefully as if they do everything right

The scammers simply created a rogue Elon Musk account on Twitter, then called on people to convert Ethereum into their purse with the promise of repaying a large sum of money. The scammers also created some other fake Twitter accounts, to answer below and confirm that they have received Ethereum, in order to create trust and entice people. It's easy to discover that these Twitter accounts are only created and have a unique tweet.

On twitter I've seen a lot of fraudulent news. They bring great profits to the desired player by the amount of players invested. They then delete the player's account. game over

Smell fishy, Gladly I doesn't catch my attention in Twitter advertisements saying buy here, send here and post your txid and I usually learning the project before anything elsw ,But we must take care you are right thanks for concern buddy

right,I was seen last some days lot twitter scammers post by using John Mcafee name giveaway one thousand ETH,so please avoid this thing all are the scammer running outside.

Scammer are lot of them here and there always making a new idea to scam people. Thaats why we should double care on chating people especially if we talk about money

I urge everyone reading this post to stay away and beware of scammers operating fake twitter accounts. Some get their followers through the help of bots and sell at ridiculous price. Also some use top Crypto icon names to scam people, by promising to double whatsoever the coin sent to their wallet.. Am not a victim of this incident but I have friends that have been duped from mischievous people like this.

Hint : Top icon on twitter has the Blue ticker beside their name which implies verified account.

Thank you very much for your warning! I recently received such a message on Twitter. I almost fell for the bait!

But why can't this scammers be logical for once, the same brain they use in scamming and fraud can as well be used to invent something positive that will enhance the society. They are now present on all social media networks even on this platform.

The scam then succeeds in enrolling the user in a subscription text service of one kind or another. It is important always  to remember never give anyone information without  being able to accurately verify who they are and always type the Twitter Web address into a browser yourself in order to login rather than using links provided in emails.

We must be careful because we do not know who is trustworthy. Especially now that many scammers are aggressive to steal our hard earned money.

It is very unfortunate that people are only interested in duping people. While people spend sleepless night to earn, others are just good arobbing them off.

If you're smart enough to earn in a world of crypto, you sure as hell should be smart enough not to fall for scammers. It's just being over greedy that makes you lose what you already have.

Do not neglect your laziness, it's better to take the time to protect your wallet as much as possible. Always try to protect your money as much as possible. It is also better to never tell anyone about your luck, even to those who surround you, money likes silence. Scammers have always been, are and will be.

Unfortunately, bitcoin attracts a huge number of scams. And your task is to trust only trusted people, no one and never trust your keys and do not transfer bitcoins to unfamiliar people. Only then can you feel safe.

Thank you for your warnings, but scammers always were a big part of the internet and cryptocurrencies. There are tons of them out there ofcourse you need to be carefull when you enter your data on phising emils or on twitter,facebook messages. Just be more attentive.

There are a lot of scams everywhere, especially in bitcoin, as all its activities are concentrated on the Internet. But if you follow all the rules of security and privacy, choose a good wallet for storage, then your risks are reduced to a minimum.

The safety and security of your investment depends only on you. Don't trust anyone with your passwords, choose only verified wallets for storage, don't trust strangers. And then you will not get into a fraudulent story.

I go on twitter on my iphone.  So i notice in mcafee posts, lot of ppl would pretend to be him and post a link for btc or eth.  I have never clicked on those links.  But if you click on those links whether its on your phone or computer, does that mean your phone or computer is now compromised?

Yeah, in fact many scammers are moving now. Scammers can do any sort of thing to get money, almost everyone is really angry with them. They do not care about you because they are their job creatures. That's why we need to be twice as careful to avoid being threatened again. And for me it should also avoid investing at one stage just to know first and have enough information to read white paper and etc, and also to aviod scam.

Thank you for being reminded, we really have to be careful of scams like this, it's true that what you say is a lot of people who are looking for shortcuts to get money. we must be really careful. and don't be easily persuaded in return for great value, by sending BTC or other coins. As an honest cripto player, we should remind each other.

Thank you, there are indeed many scammers now roaming not only on Twitter, but also in many other media, we must be careful of threats like this that will take advantage of us.

Not only in twitter, also in telegram, reddit etc usually found something like this, and of course they are scammer so stay away

Sad to say many scammers are pooling around. As cryptocurrency becomes popular many scammers takes this opportunity to scam and hack accounts to steal money. Lets be aware of this. Do some researches before doing investment and do not believe to promising word that they would give you btc. Just be knowledgeable to avoid this.

This makes the cryptocurrency bad in the eyes of those victims as many scammers around to lure peoples money. I suggest to all of us to research them first if they are legit before putting your hard earn money.

Scams are anywhere and we should always be vigilant all the time or we will just realize that we got scammed when all we have are already lost. I have always seen so many tweets like that and even on facebook but i never give any interest to it because i know that's only a scam. Who would ever give you a free btc today most especially if bitcoin's market value is down?

Now, the scam is everywhere as it has now gone beyond the shores of Telegram. Well, it shows cautions need to be exercised where necessary and even in all dealings. The set of people into this scamming game, are ready to dupe people of their hard earned money. I have seen those into the idea of retweeting and getting free Bitcoin. Like, that cheap?  It is really sad, and more sad if people get to fall for this.

We are surrounded by scammers and they usually take advantage on newbies. Its sad to see that people use social media to fool others. I hope they realize their mistakes because it will be really hard to the one who has been scammed. It will be difficult for her/him to invest again because of this kind of situation.

We got to hear some scams in Twitter on the previous day. And today's scams are happening everywhere. Therefore, we should think carefully and invest. Only then can we avoid these scams.

Now scammers have divorced a lot and not only in twitter, but in general in any social network, so you should not even open messages in these networks and also in twitter itself, there are constantly various messages about deception, never believe anyone in the Internet, think with your head.

Twitter has now become a gathering place for ico scams. Twitter was originally an ordinary social media, but it is now widely used in various scams, not just crypto. In many other scams, we can Seeing that Twitter is working, so this is also an important reason for Twitter’s official implementation of the ICO advertising ban this year.

not only in twitter but also scammer are every where trying to scam you . they will give you little profit and than they will scam you by taking out your coins by hacking your wallet or multiple ways. so it is always better to avoid links from unidentified sources.

I think more scammers are on discord or telegram, because the discord or telegram is more concealed than Twitter, and the actual online numbers are more. Now many scammers will use chat scams to lure you to hand over your money by deposit/transaction.
The scam on Twitter is not very clever and easy to see, so you don't need to worry too much. The only thing that bothers me is that there are too many spam accounts on Twitter,all the tweets are almost related to ICO.

Funny enough its not just only on twitter there are everywhere telegram facebook never experienced any one on linkedin so i cant tell but we really need to be careful i almost feel a victim for one cause i really needed to fix my kyc for a project lets be watch full and also ask questions too

I intentionally did not use Twitter for a long time because the features and uses were not suitable for me, especially for bitcoin it was not suitable at all and I am sure Twitter tried to break into bitcoin

There are some people who knows about scamming very well and they are making great ammount of money every new day. I think they would never stop scamming because there will be new targets for them every new day. Newbies should pay attention and they should not believe in those people. But unfortunately before they really understand the system they usually got scam. Not only in twitter, in markets, and ICO's too.. I got scammed twice before i really learn how to keep my assets.

Be extra vigilant and exercise caution . nothing is free

Wee need to going twitter support for reporting this account who are involved with fraudulent activities. Some people will be get hacked because for blue verified accounts is public trustworthy.

I really hate them, because of their crimes I have been permanently banned by Twitter because of a crime on a scammer, My account has been stolen by scammers to become a promotional account for an ICO project

I think you should not believe such things as send me money and I will give you back more. This should immediately alert. All spammers can not be caught so be careful.

Actually not only on twitter you should be aware but all social medias and campaigns. Because as long as it is about gaining profit, some people tend to gain assets without working on it but to scam a person for an easy income.

Any ICOs wants to reach any person on whatever platform of social media. Twitter is one of it, facebook and instagram is another. As long as there are  many people using it, scammers will find ways to  penetrate and floods with their marketing plans to attract possible investors. This is not new, that is why just be careful in any ads  being offered to you.

Its really sad that many people are getting scmed nowadays , it will be difficult to trust everyone even your friend because no one knows there is a chance that he/she will betray you. We really need to be aware especially on the internet because scammers will do anything just to take everything from you.

These guys are getting pretty fed up. I never like Twitter as a social network. There's a lot of obsessive and meaningless information that you simply clog up your brain. In General, now this problem applies to all social networks, not just Twitter.

Such messages are designed only for beginners in bitcoin, which is also obsessed with excitement. And so it is not surprising that Twitter prohibits advertising of crypto-currencies in its territory.

I think that such a warning is primarily for beginners and inexperienced investors. Be careful when buying bitcoin and any other coins and better trust your money only to good exchangers.

Twitter is last place in list for experienced and professional traders for advices. Low marketcap coin and tokens are spreaded intentially for pump. After pump pirces will decrease fantastically and it is done for that day.

Unfortunately, scammers now meet at every step, whether it's just the Internet space in social networks or in particular, cryptocurrencies. So do not believe anyone, especially in all sorts of such not a real offer of free coins.

Such fraudulent offers can be found anywhere, especially on social networks. Therefore, I advise you not to believe in such nonsense, and buy coins only on reliable popular exchanges.

Many scammer always doing unique way how to make their investor lost much money, like sending bitcoin 0.02 btc and will get tripple, never trusted about how scammer give you much profit without doing anything.

It would be better if Twitter take actions on those accounts ,I've been seeing fake Twitter accounts since 2016 ,I hope it get fix one way or the other

I saw a lot of these, don't believe it. Be careful, there's a lot of scammers everywhere and wiling to do anything just to get money from people.

I am sure that everybody is aware about scammers, yes there are a lot of scammers not just in twitter but they are all over, all we have to do is to be alert and be careful in everything.

Fraudsters often use a false sense of urgency to trick you into providing them with your private key, personal information or by sending you protocols, including but not limited to confidentiality agreements, token purchase agreements or any other agreement, to lure you into a fraudulent business arrangement, requiring you to sign, provide personal information, exchange tokens or private keys.You keep a high degree of vigilance.

Still actual case nowadays. Famous twitter accounts add "Non eth giver"  line next to their nick in order to avoid scam issues. Some accounts change their twitter name to similar name of known project for forwarding investors to fishy links. Phishing newbies is easy for scammers because they know how to play with odds in this social media game.

Everyone should watch out for these kind of way to scam people especially who are new to crypto currency. Scammers always have a way to do it and they are good about fooling people on twitter, not only on twitter but all social medias as well. They even spam emails to spread fake airdrops and steal private keys from their victims. So, we must be vigilant in order to fight these frauds online and make online world much safer as much as we can.

I already know a lot of things from Twitter and I have been hit and Twitter is not suitable for the crypto world at the moment and I feel cheated with bots and links provided by Twitter.