[2018-11-06] Posing as Elon Musk, hacker nets about $180,000 worth of bitcoin

[veleten]

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How can people believe in this kind of scheme? if someone did that kind of scheme then that person would be running a ponzi scheme, and I doubt any celebrity or anyone famous would do such a thing. Then I ask the same question again: why the hell do people fall into scams like these? The only answer that comes in my head is: greed

totally agree I call it stupidity tax
if you fail to pass the IQ test online in a form of falling for this , then it is your problem
the only thing that seems unreal is the sum on one of the btc accounts, it is over 26 btc in total
I know some people are dumb, but they cannot be THAT dumb
seriously, even if it were 1000 people , each of them should have sent 180$

[milewilda]

If you ask me, Twitter should be held accountable for this. I mean if it's really that easy to manipulate a blue-ticked account than its about time they think about their security. Once I saw a similar thing happening on Facebook, I reported that account and I haven't seen something like this again on facebook at least. I believe Facebook manually reviews a name change request of the account and you have to re-verify your Identity afterwards. It's about time these platforms should be held accountable too. They get away too often if you ask me. Yeah you can argue people are dumb, greedy whatever. But if you tell me that I can change a blue-tick account to impersonate a celebrity and get away with it than I think people should really think about what kind of pathetic platform they are on.

Twitter do really have also the mistake when it comes to security and they should really make such changes to prevent further similar situations but
eventually people's lack of common sense is the main issue why they do let themselves blinded on one's popularity to follow up on the things that had been instructed to
the public. Even reading it up, having a basic knowledge with scams will really give you or picture out that this one is a classic scam but people
do let their stupidity and greed control them.

[Thekool1s]

If Elon Musk's specially badged account told you to inject your phallus with bleach to extend your life by 20 years would you do it without question? I would not.

Lol, Neither would i. But I want these platforms to get the same heat as bitcoin does. Why do they target bitcoin whenever something goes wrong? I mean the recent ransomware attack. Bitcoin got only bad press from that while the hackers should have gotten the press. Maybe it's just me who wants to see some karma in action.

[gentlemand]

Lol, Neither would i. But I want these platforms to get the same heat as bitcoin does. Why do they target bitcoin whenever something goes wrong? I mean the recent ransomware attack. Bitcoin got only bad press from that while the hackers should have gotten the press. Maybe it's just me who want to see some karma in action.

That's fair enough but I think we'll just have to get used to the idea of implicit blame and move on. It's not as if a decade of near constant loathing has done a great deal to dent it. It would be good if Twitter tightened up on it all the same because the next bull run is going to draw in even more cognitively disadvantaged marks.

[Thekool1s]

It would be good if Twitter tightened up on it all the same because the next bull run is going to draw in even more cognitively disadvantaged marks.

Even if there is a petition for additional security measure I doubt they will budge. I mean its way easier to talk shit and ban something instead of improving your platform. 

[felixesteban]

It's really pretty easy to fool some people, unfortunately the greed of people making easy money cause that. People need to learn not to be deceived easily.

[dreamhouse]

This old trick can still cheat people which is really amazing. Looks like some people are really dumb in today's internet world. Better they lose some money to learn the internet, lol.

[bosian]

This cheat scheme has been there for quite some time, still there are people who fall for it. This means there are people really stupid.

[Kakmakr]

This just shows us once again that there is no medicine for stupidity. Why would Elon Musk or anyone for that matter, need to "verify" that the Bitcoin address is valid, by having people sending 0.1 to 3 BTC to his address? You post your Bitcoin address on request, like you post your Bank account number and you never need to send anything to legitimize or to validate that you own the address. 

This makes me think of the Nigerian scams, where you need to deposit, say $300 to receive the $1 000 000 reward. 

[CoinClarity]

I saw the same thing happen to Eva Longoria the other day on Twitter, except they really did hack her account. But they only raised like $600 because, after all, it was Eva Longoria. Not much of a bitcoin fan base crossover. What astounds me is that people can be savvy enough to buy bitcoin but then dumb enough to lose it to a scam like this.

[gentlemand]

I saw the same thing happen to Eva Longoria the other day on Twitter, except they really did hack her account. But they only raised like $600 because, after all, it was Eva Longoria. Not much of a bitcoin fan base crossover.

If Andy Kaufman was alive and well he'd post something like this on Twitter and pay out plus send the latecomers' money back just to sow some doubt about whether they're all scams or not.

[Thekool1s]

I saw the same thing happen to Eva Longoria the other day on Twitter, except they really did hack her account. But they only raised like $600 because, after all, it was Eva Longoria. Not much of a bitcoin fan base crossover.

If Andy Kaufman was alive and well he'd post something like this on Twitter and pay out plus send the latecomers' money back just to sow some doubt about whether they're all scams or not.

Lol, I was thinking the other day that Twitter should introduce 2FA for at least blue badge users. Like for every tweet the app sends a message to the user which it automatically verifies before posting. There won't be any inconveniences for the users as the verification will be automated plus it will help in cases where these celebrities get hacked. Whatsapp does it for verifying your cell number, I am sure Twitter can come up with a similar feature.