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Twitter Accounts of Elon Musk, Coinbase, Other individuals Press Bitcoin Scam in Clear Hack

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Minutes back, the Twitter account of Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent out a suspicious information involving Bitcoin.

The information read: “I’m feeling generous due to the fact of COVID-19. I’ll double any BTC payment despatched to my BTC deal with for the following hour…”

Connected was a Segwit Bitcoin address.

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The information garnered 1000’s of likes and retweets in the couple minutes it was up.

Shortly following it was revealed, the tweet was deleted, with Elon Musk or Twitter admins seemingly regaining authority of the account and deleting the information.

But it rapidly became obvious that this was not the scenario. The subsequent concept was printed minutes later, with the account sharing the correct similar Bitcoin tackle with a a little bit altered information.

Experience greatful, doubling all payments despatched to my BTC tackle!

You send out $1,000, I ship back $2,000!
Only undertaking this for the future 30 minutes.

bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 15, 2020

As of this article’s crafting, the Bitcoin handle has accumulated 2.7 BTC, worthy of around $25,000.

Less than Musk’s tweet are replies from persons that have been impacted.

Not the Only Account Tweeting a Crypto Rip-off

These messages were being not isolated to Elon Musk’s Twitter account, adopted by over 36 million all around the world.

In excess of the earlier hour as of this article’s creating, well known Twitter accounts all throughout the cryptocurrency house have shared suspicious messages.

Accounts of leading Bitcoin analysts posted an ad for a ‘trading group’. And accounts of exchanges and specified field executives posted a hyperlink a message marketing a purported charity campaign, “Crypto for Health and fitness.”

Accounts impacted contain the @Bitcoin cope with, a single of the largest crypto handles, Justin Sun, Charlie Lee, trader Angelo, Gemini, Binance, and a lot more.

All these accounts posted the messages in a small period of time of time (all over inside of an hour) but not all at the very same time.

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