How can people believe in this kind of scheme? if someone did that kind of scheme then that person would be running a ponzi scheme, and I doubt any celebrity or anyone famous would do such a thing. Then I ask the same question again: why the hell do people fall into scams like these? The only answer that comes in my head is: greed
I really don't think it's only greed, sure it can be a big factor especially when it comes to crypto scams, but I feel like there are more factors to this matter such as inexperience or gullibility. I often times cringe when my (grand)parents ask me whether an obvious scam site is real or not, or contract a virus to their pc that could've been avoided quite easily. These are all honest intellectual people who are simply inexperienced with all these threats out there.
If you ask me, Twitter should be held accountable for this. I mean if it's really that easy to manipulate a blue-ticked account than its about time they think about their security. Once I saw a similar thing happening on Facebook, I reported that account and I haven't seen something like this again on facebook at least. I believe Facebook manually reviews a name change request of the account and you have to re-verify your Identity afterwards. It's about time these platforms should be held accountable too. They get away too often if you ask me. Yeah you can argue people are dumb, greedy whatever. But if you tell me that I can change a blue-tick account to impersonate a celebrity and get away with it than I think people should really think about what kind of pathetic platform they are on.
Exactly this! Especially those who are responsible for auditing the advertisements launched on their platform (if audits are even taking place in the first place!). A platform's number one concern should be their users and if they're exposing their users to such a blatant scam then I feel like you're equally (if not more) responsible for the way this scam has turned out.
