Beware of Twitter Scammers

[automaticmoney]

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

[Privatoria]

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.

[Kb4real]

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

[Docnaster]

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.

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.

[idex100]

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

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

[jerry0]

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?

[Obito]

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

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.

[Peashooter]

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

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

[DenSamui]

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.

[Ahimoth]

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. That accounts must be banned if it is real though.

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.

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.

[Traslavin]

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. That accounts must be banned if it is real though.

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.

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.

[papashark]

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.

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

[dangkhoasn]

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.

[LinkinPrak]

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.

[Tynovten_]

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.

[miyaka26]

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.

[Majharul Saiif]

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

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.

[aizen10]

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.

[onyebuchi81]

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.

[Dmitry.Vastov]

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

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.