Verified Twitter account is being used to promote fake giveaway!

[ScamViruS]

The fake giveaway is being widely promoted by some verified Twitter accounts. It is a matter of wondering whether those accounts really belong to the original owner, or whether these accounts have come to these scammers illegally who are now using these accounts to promote fake giveaways for the purpose of scam. Many times such accounts are verified by scammers using various shortcuts.

So those who see the verified account and easily believe it should be more careful. Because now there are a lot of fake accounts, whose main job is how to easily trap and scam newbies. I hope the newbies will spend some time for learning, which will save them from falling into this kind of trap.



Profile Link: https://twitter.com/hollywilliams1



Even this account has only 491 followers. So how is this account verified? They have also verified this account by fooling Twitter!

Profile Link: https://twitter.com/DannerForNE

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[TalkStar]

The fake giveaway is being widely promoted by some verified Twitter accounts. It is a matter of wondering whether those accounts really belong to the original owner, or whether these accounts have come to these scammers illegally who are now using these accounts to promote fake giveaways for the purpose of scam. Many times such accounts are verified by scammers using various shortcuts.

Few days earlier multiple popular twitter account were hacked and scammers made free giveaway posts. Although it was fixed by twitter authority within a short time but damage was done. Worldwide crypto users were surprised after seeing that hacking and it is expected when you get up from bed and see Bill gate or Elon Musk is offering free BTC giveaway. 

I really don't know how this guys is using this verified account to spread his money stealing trap but people will easily trust it after seeing the blue badge. I don’t know how strict is twitter's blue badge verification or they are just giving it easily. 

[BIT-BENDER]

Its not clear, is that Elon musk and it have a verified tick, I can't say much for the other account and about how their verification was giving to the account, but If twitter verified. Elon musk then it should be the real one, verification is more hard even for those having fake verification when the name they are using is a name of a popular person.
What -Newbie- and all are to know is
+ even if the verification is correct and account is owned by the real person, a disclaimer can be made, verification doesn't mean you can be insensitive

+search up the account name, the real person may come up with all their legal accounts, then compare with the fake account.

+give away asking you to give your fund/belongings -your ATM card number, sensitive detail- to them are highly chanced to be fake.

[Coyster]

Is there a way scammers fake Twitter verification, cause AFAIK, to have your account verified on Twitter isn't that much easy, I know it's possible some verified accounts have been hacked and used to scam, but what about some unpopular accounts with very few followers, but still verified and used to perpetrate scam.

Having said that, users should just basically be careful on social media, Twitter and others, especially Telegram, you'll not get Bitcoins through giveaways, and you can't simply get rich quick, do you research as always and don't follow advice, analysis or whatever from 'experts', if you take responsibility, it's not possible to get scammed.

[decodx]

So this is another Twitter hack like last year, huh? Back then, celebrities were promoting some sort of fake giveaway or bitcoin doubler, as well.

[bL4nkcode]

I usually found these hacked verified accounts on some of elon tweets. I suggest to anyone that report those sus verified twitter accounts promoting scam giveaways so that twitter will work on that immediately. On the other hand, don't get fooled any crypto giveaways that double or triple your deposited crypto coz its 100% scam.

[abdulodoi]

It's either Elon's twitter account has been hacked again or another edited image circulating around social media.

Even this account has only 491 followers. So how is this account verified? They have also verified this account by fooling Twitter!

True, how did this account with few followers get verified, maybe some backdoor verification probably with the main motive of defrauding people.

Profile Link: https://twitter.com/hollywilliams1

It's so weird that this account haven't tweeted since 2017 or maybe tweet was deleted or something

Twitter fake giveaways aren't slowing down atall and wondering if Twitter is actually working on some features to decrease that. I guess need to be aware and learn how to spot a fake giveaway below.

If you're being asked to send fund
If you have been asked for your private key/seed phrase
Always check the URL of whatever websites you are in as some just look almost the same.
If it's too good to be true then it probably is. Let's stay vigilant and safe out there

[Akiko]

It's either Elon's twitter account has been hacked again or another edited image circulating around social media.

Its edited ,I saw that in Facebook and I check elon's twitter the same day and no mention of that fake giveaway.they use that edited tweet to promote in other hacked twitter account and saying they receive it. so other people that following those hacked account will believe that its real giveaway which in reality its not and only want to stole other peoples bitcoins. BTW elons tweet edited the same day he mention doge on his tweet.

[TalkStar]

Having said that, users should just basically be careful on social media, Twitter and others, especially Telegram, you'll not get Bitcoins through giveaways, and you can't simply get rich quick, do you research as always and don't follow advice, analysis or whatever from 'experts', if you take responsibility, it's not possible to get scammed.

If anyone wants to be a millionaire overnight then no one can keep far from this type of free giveaway based trap because scammers are specifically targeting them and reaching their potential users through social media like twitter and telegram. Due to twitter's acceptability in crypto space people follow twitter to get updates but i don't know how many people justify the legality of any announcement before running after something like this. In this case investors have to spend a good amount of time for research properly before taking final decision about any kinda crypto related investment.

Scammers are trying their best to take every single chances by launching fake giveways and they know well still some people exist who think giveaway and airdrops are the only way of earning crypto currency.

[taufik123]

Its edited ,I saw that in Facebook and I check elon's twitter the same day and no mention of that fake giveaway.they use that edited tweet to promote in other hacked twitter account and saying they receive it. so other people that following those hacked account will believe that its real giveaway which in reality its not and only want to stole other peoples bitcoins. BTW elons tweet edited the same day he mention doge on his tweet.

More and more specific fraud methods are used by scammers. Even account hacks like this on twitter are very common. Is twitter security so bad that hacks keep happening. even scammers also create a domain similar to Twitter and display a page similar to the Elonmusk account. Elonmusk Twitter becomes a place for scammers to create fake giveaway scams and such and is very popular when elonmusk talks about Doge every day.

[cryptoaddictchie]

So those who see the verified account and easily believe it should be more careful. Because now there are a lot of fake accounts, whose main job is how to easily trap and scam newbies.

They are really verified accounts. But the problem here is those who are not aware how flexible Twitter can be. There are some high profile verified accounts that has been used on scamming people. How this is done? Simple, they just editing their account profile and dropping some few post which the original owner has been posted.  Indeed normal followers might considered this as legit seeing the blue check symbol. But the truth is they were just copied and used by scammers.

People should do extra careful when checking some sort of giveaway.

[libert19]

These people don't seem popular and looking at names, they sound scammy. Malicious actors likely found some way to get easy blue ticks.

Edit: searched for the names, they didn't exist on Twitter. I bet if you were search for these people's avatar, you would find them they belonged to someone else.

[akirasendo17]

This is why very important to read, research, what really is going on, sometimes if we just click anything advertising something on Twitter we will be in the loop, and may also spread the same giveaway, link and hashtags are one of those that are being used by a scammer, with that you tend to believe it's legit because once you check the account its verified, but the links given by the scammer are not.
Where scammers are hiding:
Links
Personal message
Best thing to do is go to the official website before clicking any links, or in the official site for sure they have the links or form of the giveaway
if you can't see them on the site it's fake.

[Maxstl007]

I won't lie I was once driven by people's idea of money making in crypto space, whenever someone said a project is good I always look into it but now I see it's a complete waste of time, the truth about twitter is 90% of crypto things on Twitter are lies, probably based on fake hypes, those accounts are hacked

[RabbiTANK]

This have been around for many years now, twitter is the place you don't want to be for anything crypto related because you will be fooled or you will be forced to do something you never had in mind to do, there are too many confusions on Twitter, it's also well known for fake tokens

[Maus0728]

Surprisingly though, there are still few crypto giveaways in Twitter and they are giving away free fidget spinner shitcoins LOL! Nonetheless, always proceed with caution before engaging into these types of airdrop/giveaways or perhaps, as much as possible avoid such offers.

 
*Note: Screenshot taken from my friend who is new to crypto space*

[cryptomaniac_xxx]

Those are probably hack accounts, or probably criminals bought them underground to look like their scam is legit. Not the first time that I have seen a verified twitter promoting fake giveaways. I can't remember, but I came across someone, and then later she confirmed that her account was hacked. So moral lesson is that we should be very careful of this well known social media platforms as they are haven for scammers are well.

[Asuspawer09]

How did the 2nd account even become verified at 400+ followers?  

I didn't know it's possible to get the blue tick with that kind of account, But it's probably a hacked account, or it's either they just don't know what they are sharing or they might be part of the scam.

We don't know how Twitter verify or check each account if it is a legitimate account, the 1st account seems to have a large audience but the 2nd one doesn't. But I guess it is still social media so they could share whatever they want.

[Apostlekin$$$]

They used verified twitter accounts so that newbies can easily believe whatever they say, it's an old trick that still works because we have millions of crypto newbies that head to twitter to vital information without knowing that they aren't legit info but a format to rob them

[AniviaBtc]

So this is another Twitter hack like last year, huh? Back then, celebrities were promoting some sort of fake giveaway or bitcoin doubler, as well.

Yeah, you've also seen those scamming news before regarding famous celebrities' twitter account getting hacked.

They really promote fake giveaways and fraud to help themselves earn money by fooling investors.

Verified twitter account and popular personalities are really effective to bait people especially if they are not knowledgeable about these scams. We are glad that we have this kind of community or forum so that we can some how learn the do's and dont's in a cryptocurrency investment. Investors, please be aware about the platforms that you are accessing in the internet.