Very innovative BTC/ETH scam ongoing live, right now.

[bgaf]

Its not that logn time ago to see a scam trick like this, maybe just two days ago saw another post about a method that works like this. I dont know when people gonna stop with their wrong doings. In spite of helping other people in the time of crisis, they just really dont care whoever will be victimized by their shits.

There's nothing new and innovative in this,except using the name of Elon Musk.

Agreed. Elon Musk is famous and those dipshits thought they can used such fashion using famous names with this. But if the loss is true according to OP then they are good actors and performers that need to taken care soon.

[Ucy]

Only thing we can do now is reporting the website and the social media postings as scam

In facebook the reporting really works and if it was done by more than one person then they look at it with series manner. However lately the service is slow due to corona phenomenon. I have an ad account which I have created to advertise one of my business and the sent a notification that the ads will longer to approve because of not many people working in their office.

We really can not do much except reporting and creating awareness against this scams.

Well, if the moderation is well decentralized, scams like that would be quickly taken care of.
Skillful, anonymous and randomly chosen moderators should be able to delete such things very quickly when rules are broken in well decentralized social media

[pawanjain]

What I don't understand is how can a person even decide to invest big amounts without doing thorough prior research.
I guess we call them 'noobs' for a reason. Besides that, if you are holding that big amount to invest in something then you must actually know what you are doing, else you are not worth holding that kind of money.

Anyway it's good that OP has mentioned it here. I hope atleast people read this post before investing in any such sites.

[kryptqnick]

First the scammers set up a fake website and claimed that it is the official site of Elon Musk:

https://spacexbtc.site/

Then they bombarded the social media with promotions related to this scam.

They have a separate site, where the scam actually takes place:

https://spacexbtc.site/btc/index.html
https://spacexbtc.site/eth/index.html

There are thousands of tweets and facebook posts promoting this scam right now, most of them posted during the last 30 minutes.

We need to mass report and warn innocent users about this.

Noobs have already lost at least $2,500 worth of crypto:

https://etherscan.io/address/0xf269ebedcc1f430c4e487bd6218c33e86616f99c
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1NWdpsVPi9xWpv4dNWKyDrN1it2qbH9ZSg

Edit: Someone just lost $6,200 worth of BTC: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/47ac529236fdcbba7430dd533e3a3dc995701f32df6c6f75a30551b30e02787d

Someone please help. A lot of people are losing hard earned coins.

When I tried to access the website just now, Google Chrome made a red huge notification that the website is fake, and did not let me through. So it's great that people like you have raised concerns and the website seems to be blocked by Google. It was quite a fast reaction because I remember a Binance impostor scam about a month ago that's been going on for about a week before it was shut down.
The scam looks so typical that it's indeed hard to believe people still fall for that stuff. I suppose it means that people need serious anti-scam education which they lack.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Well, if the moderation is well decentralized, scams like that would be quickly taken care of.
Skillful, anonymous and randomly chosen moderators should be able to delete such things very quickly when rules are broken in well decentralized social media

What is you concept of a decentralized social media. Who will moderate the contents?
When you have a body who can alter the database without any instruction or they do not need to explain it to anyone, they will abuse. In the current structure of facebook they have people (moderators) who are legally bound to explain their jobs to their superior.

[Ryutaro]

I don't think those transactions are 'true' and this is an old scam strategy nothing innovative.
they first make an obvious phishing site like this, then ask you to send fund, when you check the address to see how much they collected, you get surprised by the sum collected so you think it's legit. I remember one scam had like 100 eth in hours, don't know how they do that and I am not convinced that people fall for this type very easily. Overall, we should all report it fast and it will be tagged.

[bryant.coleman]

This was an example of the tweets, used to popularize the scam in social media (notice the tweet using a fake account of Jeff Tiedrich):