Topic: [2018-11-06] Posing as Elon Musk, hacker nets about $180,000 worth of bitcoin - page 2. (Read 415 times)
November 07, 2018, 10:15:29 AM
I've heard people say that social media rots your brain, but this is something else. People don't want to believe what scientists and doctors say, but they'll take twitter at face value without stopping to even question it? No wonder the world is in the state it currently is.
November 07, 2018, 07:06:10 AM
People can be really dumb sometimes and no logic. Sending money to someone who doesn't care about you. Don't people have better things to do with their income, no bills?
Twitter won't publish any comment regarding this scam, the company will just try to avoid responding to the bad buzz. Or just a generic reply
Twitter won't publish any comment regarding this scam, the company will just try to avoid responding to the bad buzz. Or just a generic reply
November 07, 2018, 06:35:31 AM
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
It's not just about greed, but about ignorance combined with poor English knowledge with the addition of something very important - some people blindly following some celebrities on social networks and they will do whatever what is required. Ponzi is an unknown term for them, therefore they can not even defend themselves from any kind of fraud.
These types of fraud are very easily feasible, you only need FB/Twitter account with name as much as possible similar to the original and coin address - then you just throw the bait in digital sea and catch digital fish. As long as there are possibilities, there will be the fraudsters who will exploit them.
November 07, 2018, 05:45:55 AM
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https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1059508666632716289/photo/1
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
November 07, 2018, 05:21:16 AM
There is no doubt that people would really fall for this scam, Elon Musk is a known figure in the cryptocurrency industry and posing some believable photos and sites would definitely convince a lot of people that this shit is real. Every time I see this kinds of "to good to be true" schemes I know that something is up and the best thing is to step away, that is why I have avoided dozens of investment schemes because I know I'll end up easily losing the money I invested it for hoping to have an easy return for it.
November 07, 2018, 03:59:22 AM
Yeah, its really comical and I have a good laughs reading the tweet. But oh my, people are still falling for this trap and the scammers was able to raised $180,000 worth of bitcoins, hats off to him. LOL. Its really hard to fathom why people are gullible enough to believed that if its really someone famous, we should take him/her word for it. Really hard to understand because its pretty obvious from the beginning, I guess what we can do is just treat this as another lessons learned to everyone.
November 07, 2018, 12:42:10 AM
I don't know why some people are stupid enough to fall victims of such crypto scams. the majority of bitcoin giveaways are scams. by the way, why would anyone you his bitcoin for free? If you are not wise enough to hold your bitcoin carefully then you'll fall a victim of such scams. People should ask themselves before sending their bitcoin to anyone, why would that person give you his bitcoin for free? is he Mr. Nakamoto or what?
Well, he is a famous and rich person and we know that there are times when they choose to give something for promotional purposes or they just want to give something to people and for those who are new to crypto world seeing the price currently, they would be convinced that they can get something out of it. When I am just new to cryptocurrency, I easily believe this kind of giveaway that's why I got scammed before.
Of course, I regret that I easily believe it but then I learned my lesson and try to help others who are just blindly believing this kind of stuff by warning them.
November 06, 2018, 07:04:52 PM
I don't know why some people are stupid enough to fall victims of such crypto scams. the majority of bitcoin giveaways are scams. by the way, why would anyone you his bitcoin for free? If you are not wise enough to hold your bitcoin carefully then you'll fall a victim of such scams. People should ask themselves before sending their bitcoin to anyone, why would that person give you his bitcoin for free? is he Mr. Nakamoto or what?
November 06, 2018, 05:24:16 PM
Er, fuck 'em.
I have less than zero sympathy for anyone that goddamn dim. If they weren't going to give their money away doing this, it was going to be via other avenues. I hope the con artist uses it more wisely.
I have less than zero sympathy for anyone that goddamn dim. If they weren't going to give their money away doing this, it was going to be via other avenues. I hope the con artist uses it more wisely.
November 06, 2018, 05:12:32 PM
I understand how people can get scammed by ICO's, HYIP's and cloud mining, because they are thinking that they are investing in some sort of business, but how can so many people seriously believe that some celebrity is giving away cryptocurrency and needs them to send their coins in order to participate?
November 06, 2018, 04:06:45 PM
That's insane that they used bitcoin as a means of getting currency. I guess that makes sense, as it is more enticing nowadays to people who see "cash giveaways" as more of a scam.
November 06, 2018, 02:30:34 PM
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/posing-as-elon-musk-nets-hacker-about-180000-worth-of-bitcoin-so-far-2018-11-06
Several verified accounts were used by these jerks, to pose as Elon Musk. Some accounts belonged to politicians as well. Of course people shouldn’t be falling for this, but, they can be cut some slack as these were verified accounts.
Obviously the tweets are comical and dumb, but still, they did get almost $200K, didn’t they. Let’s see how twitter reacts, while hoping they don’t bottle it like the last time.
Several verified accounts were used by these jerks, to pose as Elon Musk. Some accounts belonged to politicians as well. Of course people shouldn’t be falling for this, but, they can be cut some slack as these were verified accounts.
Obviously the tweets are comical and dumb, but still, they did get almost $200K, didn’t they. Let’s see how twitter reacts, while hoping they don’t bottle it like the last time.
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