Another Elon Musk fake giveaway.

[MCobian]

It turns out that there are still many people who are deceived by old methods like this, even though there has been a lot of education related
to this kind of fraud. Still, there are people who believe that by sending a certain amount of Bitcoin, they will be given a double amount of Bitcoin.
Maybe those who are victims of people who want instant money, even though nowadays to get money you have to work hard.

[Debonaire217]

If I am not mistaken, these Fake Elon Musk Giveaways are also live on Youtube Advertisements. I wonder why they are not banning these ads but it is explicitly misleading that normal people could be attracted when they saw Elon Musk, a highly reputable businessman promoting some giveaways in bitcoin.

One other thing I saw is with regards to Vitalik, even though he's not saying anything about a giveaway, the video was surrounded by tags regarding investment returns. I think YouTube themselves should be aware of this and filter the ads themselves instead of waiting for reports by the viewers.

[1GUARDIAN]

I'm not at all surprised that there are still people who agree to send their bitcoins to scammers posing as some famous person. Are none of them aware that this is a common swindle? Who can even believe that Elon Musk will distribute bitcoins for free?

The only excuse for their stupidity is the fact that Elon Musk's page was hacked and this message could look real.

[Dsdaq]

Most of the people that get caught on the kind of giveaways are mostly greedy. Because why will someone just like double your money for you, this is not the first of it kind and I think this will not be the last. Sometimes we need to be contended with the little we have not too greedy and be safe.

[Sendoku]

It surprises me how someone is sophisticated enough to use BTC yet falls into this kinda trap

[Zemomtum]

Only the greedy will fall to this crapsy scam. Is Elon Musk a charity, sometimes, when it look too good to be true, think twice because most probably, it is always

[DoublerHunter]

If I am not mistaken, these Fake Elon Musk Giveaways are also live on Youtube Advertisements. I wonder why they are not banning these ads but it is explicitly misleading that normal people could be attracted when they saw Elon Musk, a highly reputable businessman promoting some giveaways in bitcoin.

One other thing I saw is with regards to Vitalik, even though he's not saying anything about a giveaway, the video was surrounded by tags regarding investment returns. I think YouTube themselves should be aware of this and filter the ads themselves instead of waiting for reports by the viewers.

^ Definitely right, Youtube is very unfair, the banned sometimes crypto but now they let this kind of activity in their community. Probably if the number of reports was increased, Youtube will automatically this kind of trap. I have assumed that they will not easily track activity like that, it needs for people to hit the button 'report' before they will be taking action. Nevertheless, the scam attempt was the same strategy on Twitter hack that fews months ago happened, bitcoin doubling is really sucked.

[Alucard1]

It is another obvious scam on twitter, we can always see posts like this every day I wonder if there are still some people who fall for this scam. asking for bitcoins and promising that they will make it double or higher in return is an old trick of every scammer and very well known by many people, maybe only newbies will be the victim for this because of having lack of knowledge. I was a victim of this scam before when I was a beginner, thankfully I just lost a little amount of bitcoin which 0.001. I don't have much experience and knowledge at that time so I easily believe the offer.

[jossiel]

I often see this message on telegram that the binance giveaway or elon mush giveaway bitcoin or etherum but I never tried it because I believe this is a fake message, this is an old way to get money easily by persuasion to double our money.

If you the same message in Telegram coming out from a known personality, don't actually believe them. Telegram is a den for most scammers for these giveaways and the victims that they're getting are those that don't do research.

Doubling money in a short time, right?

Don't send them any amount, they are giving a fake promise. You don't earn double with your money without doing anything or by just sending it to them.

unfortunately we can't jail these criminals

They can, as long as there's enough proof that has been given to the authorities.

[Genemind]

This is a classic scammer's approach, promising double of what you have sent. I wonder how people fall for it since this had happened several times in crypto space. Social media accounts being hacked and promising giveaways. Only greedy people falls for it. There is no easy money in this world.

[Dewi89]

I often see this type of scam using the name Elon Musk, why do people fall into the bitcoin doubler scam because it's a classic and illogical scam, avoid anything related to scams on Twitter, telegram and any media.

[Globb0]

They also use Richard Branson its psychological, anybody people think is a success is easy to use. Anothr one Martin Lewis..

They want a piece of that! as mentioned repeatedly greed. But a fool and his money is easily parted.

[djarah]

This crazy shit wont stop

[CASTIEL05]

After all what happened in twitter fake giveaway, people should be learned already that giveaways by popular people can be fake and invented only of scammers. However, many people are still falling into this scheme since they don`t made further research. As long as they see the name, they think that it is a genuine airdrop. People who fall into fake giveaways have no further understanding to the world of crypto space. They only see it as earnings but they ignore their potential loss.

[goldade]

It is interesting to know that there are still obvious scams like this. Why would anyone want to give out free bitcoins especially only after you've deposited a certain amount of coins. If he was that generous, he should have given the coins out to people without asking for something first.
I believe however that people who fall for scams like this are those who didn't bother to make research to confirm its authenticity. They are only naive looking for cheap ways to make fast money. It is only well deserved if they got scammed.
One advice, don't fall for these obvious scams especially those that use a prominent person's account. Most times, they are hacked accounts

[Oceat]

Seriously, who would fall for this? Always remember if it is too good to be true it's probably a scam. I wonder if people still fall for this since it's too common nowadays to see this kind of typical marketing. This kind of marketing is rampant everywhere in any social media that's why I don't believe to any of those giveaways they were talking. I found it a waste of time when I happen to meet one.

[LogitechMouse]

This kind of trend that scammers are using will never end.
As long as there are investors getting scammed to this kind of trick then scammers will not stop doing it.

What we need right now is time. Time for us to learn which are scam and which are not. Time to know tricks that scammers are using to scam investors. Sad to say, investors are too ignorant therefore they are the ones who easily falls to these kind of traps. I hope that there will be a time that no investors will be falling to these kind of tricks again.