I also sent 0.80 BTC and got back 8 Bitcoins!Īs Motherboard journalist Joseph Cox mentions, the hijacked Pathé UK account even retweeted genuine tweets from the real Elon Musk in an attempt to make its bogus guise appear more convincing. Of course, not everyone follows the likes of Pathé UK on Twitter, and so whoever has hijacked the account uses a Twitter promoted ad to blast the message into the timelines of innocent Twitter users.Īnd because verified “tick” is still there, some tweeters might be duped into thinking that it really is a Bitcoin giveaway offer from the famous businessman.īut if even that isn’t quite enough to dupe the unwary, there are also plenty of other compromised Twitter accounts (yes, also with verified “ticks’) prepared to chime in on the thread claiming that after giving Bitcoin to the fake “Elon Musk” they successfully received more in return, and retweeting the message to their own followers.Īccording to one exuberant hijacked verified account that was helping to promote the scam: What’s happened here is a verified account, film distributor has been compromised with its its avatar changed to to the same one chosen by the real and its display name changed to resemble that of Elon Musk (in reality the “l” is from an extended character set, presumably in an attempt to avoid being automatically locked by Twitter). I decided to make the biggest crypto-giveaway in the world, for all my readers who use Bitcoin.
I left the post of director of Tesla, thank you all for your suppoot!
I’m giving 10 000 Bitcoic (BTC) to all community! The message, complete with typos, reads as follows before linking to a webpage which purports to be related to Musk’s SpaceX project:
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