Indian Prime Minister Promoting Bitcoins Giveaway

[Anonylz]

These hackers must be tired of seeing the constant denial and ban statement from the prime minister they decided to have a little fun lol, it is very clear what their intentions were, to promote btc legalization using the minister twitter account, it is a crime to do such but it really sounds hilarious  

[alpamar99]

If I'm not mistaken this is the second time the prime minister's twitter account in India has been hacked.
are they really so careless that they don't even consider good passwords for their social media accounts?

This will be a lure that is indeed misused by irresponsible people by providing information like this is actually not the benefit that bitcoin receives, but indirectly this makes the assumption that bitcoin is a tool to cheat by some people, especially for those who don't like bitcoin

[Tumanggor]

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I was shocked to see that the Indian prime minister announced bitcoin as a legal tender in India and also giving away free bitcoin but to my disappointment it was done after his account was hacked.

PM Modi’s Twitter handle ‘briefly compromised’, bitcoin giveaway link shared

The official account of the prime minister of India was hacked that's why this happened

something like this is not new, there have been several influential people in the world whose Twitter accounts were hacked and spread fake bitcoin giveaways

don't be easy to believe because the current bitcoin giveaway will never happen again

[yayayo]

I think his twitter account has been hacked

Yes, if you have read the previous responses here in this thread, it is confirmed that the prime minister’s account was hacked. Nothing has been updated yet as to who’s behind all of this and the reason for doing so, but most definitely it wasn’t the prime minister who started such, at least based on the references given.

ya.ya.yo!

[DdmrDdmr]

In my prior post on this thread, I managed to find an archived version of the scam site used, which required following a link to yet another site that was unreachable. Looking around, I managed to get hold of the end scam webpage, that actually shows the procedure, some fake TXs shown for display, and the actual BTC address used by the scammers (if it is the only address used):

https://web.archive.org/web/20211211205727/https://india-transaction.blogspot.com/ (archived scam site)
https://twitter.com/supesuonna/status/1469945797185732610 (source)

The BTC scam address received a total of 12 TXs, rendering 0,08511347 BTC (a Little over 4K USD right now). By the way, they managed to generate a vanity address for show:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1EVENTcWt7SFpFfeeq9cWd5zrk7g3FGXPW?page=1

[DapanasFruit]

Well, just reading the tweet one can easily feel that something is wrong with the account. A person in that high position will never be doing a giveaway, in the first place whether Bitcoin or fiat money not unless of course there can be recent announcements on adopting BTC just like what El Salvador did. We know that in India cryptocurrency remains to be in the shaky ground. The hackers can be the same group that also victimized other popular personalities in the past months with the intent to scam people. This is telling us how is the security in Twitter and why we should not believe everything we read, hear and see.

[LogitechMouse]

When you will see the title its like "Ohhh the Indian Government has mood swings because you saw them banning cryptocurrencies (not all) and now they are promoting it and organizing a giveaway" but when you dig and see the posts here you will see that it is hacked and I think its obvious just by seeing the tweet and that link below. I don't think as well that they will do this and will donate 500 BTC to random people.

Well, its quite unfortunate that there are still investors who are falling into this kind of scams. This are not new and it is being used by scammers for quite some time already and yet many are falling into it. This is what will happen if you are not knowledgeable in crypto especially in scams.

[blockman]

A scam. That's what the hacker did to several personalities after hacking their Twitter accounts. Posted some giveaways that would direct the readers to deposit to their bitcoin/ethereum address in the promise of a fixed amount of return.
I guess this won't let be passed by the prime minister of India after his account was hacked and used to a scam attempt.

[yazher]

This is just a common hacker but it's too serious for the other who doesn't really know what's going on. In fact, when someone posted like this, there always be a victim who thinks the posts came from the owner of the accounts that are being hacked. nevertheless, you should be able to tell the post was not from the owner since it is a form of the giveaway which are often used to scam and you should always remember that no matter who posted it, they are vulnerable to this kind of hack which was circulating Twitter accounts that belong to the people who have lots of followers.

[Sled]

So this means that it was not true...it is a scam trick and that it looks like scammers are targetting government officials' accounts now.

Anyway, A part of their plan is not to promote cryptocurrency in their place but have to stop it.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-bill-government-has-no-plans-to-boost-cryptos-in-india-11717342.htm

If the community knows about the issue of adopting crypto, they'll be thinking about the tweet if it is reliable or not, or a huge possibility of being a scam.

[UserU]

In my prior post on this thread, I managed to find an archived version of the scam site used, which required following a link to yet another site that was unreachable. Looking around, I managed to get hold of the end scam webpage, that actually shows the procedure, some fake TXs shown for display, and the actual BTC address used by the scammers (if it is the only address used):

https://web.archive.org/web/20211211205727/https://india-transaction.blogspot.com/ (archived scam site)
https://twitter.com/supesuonna/status/1469945797185732610 (source)

The BTC scam address received a total of 12 TXs, rendering 0,08511347 BTC (a Little over 4K USD right now). By the way, they managed to generate a vanity address for show:
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1EVENTcWt7SFpFfeeq9cWd5zrk7g3FGXPW?page=1

A mere blogspot that could generate 4K, not a bad haul for the scammer(s) involved.

[Luzin]

So this means that it was not true...it is a scam trick and that it looks like scammers are targetting government officials' accounts now.

Anyway, A part of their plan is not to promote cryptocurrency in their place but have to stop it.

https://www.cnbctv18.com/cryptocurrency/cryptocurrency-bill-government-has-no-plans-to-boost-cryptos-in-india-11717342.htm

If the community knows about the issue of adopting crypto, they'll be thinking about the tweet if it is reliable or not, or a huge possibility of being a scam.

I'm quite enthusiastic about reading this topic, and it seems that the account is also officially owned by the prime minister of India. Unfortunately it wasn't written by him, it was a warning to the prime minister that the Indian crypto community is very strong. They want to guide public opinion through the prime minister's twitter account.
Looks like the last news I heard India hasn't completely banned all crypto activities but they have allowed the digital currency they created.

[tyz]

So the whole country intelligence agencies are unable to find the hacker after 12-16 hrs of the hack. That's another big question on the country security. Probably they need to hire a hacker to get trace of another hacker.

Well, it's not that simple. Apparently, it was not a system of the Indian government that was hacked, but the account at an external service (in this case Twitter). This means that if Twitter does not provide the government or the IT specialists with any log data or the like, it is difficult to track down those behind the hack.

[Slow death]

The Indian government doesn't like bitcoin so it would be weird and I wouldn't believe the Indian Prime Minister would buy 500 BTC and give it to people, that would be crazy the Indian government wouldn't do it at all, who the hell fell for this scam or Did believe this news? I know it's difficult because it was the prime minister's account. People in India who know their prime minister and government well know that this would be impossible.

[laurenB7742]

As far as I have heard, the Indian govt announced to ban cryptocurrency soon after, they didn't allow people to involved in crypto publicly. The Indian government is not crypto-friendly at all. In fact, in a country with a large population, where per capita income is low and people live below the poverty line, adopting cryptocurrency is not an easy task. They are technologically backward so the government will not be able to bring all the people under the regulatory system, even if it wants to, which is why it is not possible to adopt crypto officially.

I think it would have been great news if the tweet had been true!! it would have been very positive news for Bitcoin.

[uneng]

Clearly it was fake, although posted from the official twitter account of Narendra Modi. Governments can't launch that kind of giveaway without proper rules, guidelines, previous announcements and equal participation chances for all the citizens of the country. After all, public funds are being used, that is everyone's money (at least in theory).

Anyone could easily spot the difference between this fake giveaway and the legit giveaway promoted by el salvadorean government which paid 30$ in bitcoin to every citizens early this year.

[Olayinka2225]

I heard it over BBC news channels that the prime minister Twitter account was slightly hacked and this tweet about bitcoin adoption or
bitcoin giveaways was tweeted. I should say that, this news shouldn't be given any consideration and should be neglected as it is not true.

[avikz]

I was shocked to see that the Indian prime minister announced bitcoin as a legal tender in India and also giving away free bitcoin but to my disappointment it was done after his account was hacked.

PM Modi’s Twitter handle ‘briefly compromised’, bitcoin giveaway link shared

I was actually worried about such thing! Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general is a hot topic in India right now and a draft bill is under consideration of the parliamentary committee. There are a lot of speculations ongoing at this moment and various media houses are posting both positive and negative news on this matter.

These kind of hacking activities are actually bad for the situation. So I strongly condemn such hacking activities. These are making things negative in India. Not good considering the current situation.

[KaliLinux]

The official Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was hacked in order for the hackers to scam people.

How come his twitter account get hacks and that too for the 2nd time ?
The prime minister twitter account should have the highest possible security and password  standards. This is something which should not be ignored.

Any idea who hacked the account 

You are right about how this "high power peoples" account should have the highest possible security and password standard and I am thinking the same thing for crypto exchanges too with more recent attacks on Bitmart and AscendEX because it is looking like an easy thing for them, the hackers these days to get into any account they want and take what the want.

[Charles-Tim]

You are right about how this "high power peoples" account should have the highest possible security and password standard

Richness does not determine how secure a social account account is, the security is in education and how the social media account owner is practising safty and making its account secure. One thing I also know about this social media thing, they are vulnerable to attack as well. This has not been the first time this is happening. Also on YouTube, we have seen many celebrity YouTube account that was hacked. And also on other social media accounts.

What is most important is not the account that was hacked, it is people to have the kind of education that will not let them be scammed. Scammers and hackers will not think of two things most of the time than to use the hacked account to scam people in a fake giveaway, telling people to pay-2-to-get-4 type of scam in which the victim will pay and nothing will be given in return. This is what people should avoid and the most important.