Elon Musk name once again used to fool people by hackers!

Vishnu.Reang

sr. member

Activity: 1988

Merit: 453

Quote from: iTradeChips on April 19, 2021, 04:35:58 AM

Well that is really expected if you are one big industrial tycoon and celebrity. People will simply continue using their names to fool many. I would say that in order for you to go and learn what these celebs are really trying to say, you need to be sure that you only stay on their own social media accounts or their legit websites if they do not have social media of their own. It is hard to track down and arrest these fraudsters but at least you do your part to stay out of their way.

These sort of things happen when logical thinking gets dominated by greed. It is really simple. If Elon Musk want to donate Bitcoin to someone, then why should he ask the recipients to first send coins to his wallet? I read the story in BBC about an European loser spending his entire BTC stash worth half a million USD to the scammers. When you are dealing with such huge amounts of money, don't you think that you need to verify the details first?

iTradeChips

hero member

Activity: 1792

Merit: 536

Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform

Well that is really expected if you are one big industrial tycoon and celebrity. People will simply continue using their names to fool many. I would say that in order for you to go and learn what these celebs are really trying to say, you need to be sure that you only stay on their own social media accounts or their legit websites if they do not have social media of their own. It is hard to track down and arrest these fraudsters but at least you do your part to stay out of their way.

noorammak

member

Activity: 490

Merit: 11

Scams happen all the time and they won't stop. A successful scam stems from 2 factors: the fraudster and the scammer. If the victim is wise enough, he will not be deceived. So raising your vigilance is a way to protect your wallet.
The name Elon Musk appears everywhere and on the Telegram groups appear regularly with thousands of fake accounts. If someone is fooled by fake news, regrettably, they are too naive.

nak02

full member

Activity: 512

Merit: 100

I've seen it in the telegram and they spamming what elon musk tweeted but it was a fake and some people are exciting to send btc and eth, they already edit what elon musk post in twitter and put the website that they going to send, i think those greedy in earning are the ones who fall for that.

Peanutswar

legendary

Activity: 1708

Merit: 1280

Top Crypto Casino

This kind of scenario is commonly happening to people who do not have an idea about bitcoin investments Elon musk already a rich man he does not need to ask a small number of cryptocurrencies to the people just to participate in this event of scams. Commonly I saw this kind of scams on youtube live I think they made action immediately because I've never seen some of those when I'm trying to browse on their platform. It is better if we invest in knowledge too to prevent getting scams on this.

bryant.coleman

legendary

Activity: 3766

Merit: 1217

Quote from: Rafiqul on April 18, 2021, 02:18:35 AM

Whether I like Elon Musk or not, he is a successful businessman, he came to Crypto to do business. So it is unbelievable that he will help hackers. Online hackers try to hack using different people's names. Before investing as an investor, you must verify that you are investing in the right place; It would not be right to blame anyone else for this. I think investors should learn from the incident.

Read the OP and the replies once. No one is actually blaming Elon Musk. He has done a lot of great things to cryptocurrency, and I have a lot of respect for him. That said, a lot of people are concerned that the scammers are using his name to cheat people, for more than two years now. Inexperienced users continue to lose their hard earned money to these scams. There is hardly anything Musk could do to prevent all this. We need to make the new users aware of these traps.

Rafiqul

member

Activity: 1358

Merit: 10

www.cd3d.app

Whether I like Elon Musk or not, he is a successful businessman, he came to Crypto to do business. So it is unbelievable that he will help hackers. Online hackers try to hack using different people's names. Before investing as an investor, you must verify that you are investing in the right place; It would not be right to blame anyone else for this. I think investors should learn from the incident.

Sithara007

legendary

Activity: 3346

Merit: 1352

Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform

Quote from: ene1980 on April 17, 2021, 06:59:24 PM

It is possible to eradicate these fraudsters, awareness is the only solution that you cannot get free money and if anyone is offering by asking you to send money first 100% of the time it is a scam.

When your brain is purely driven by greed, it becomes incapable of doing logical thinking. From what I have seen, a lot of cryptocurrency users are relatively careless while dealing with their coins. That is wrong and they need to treat cryptocurrency on par with fiat currency. If it was a fiat currency plan, where you need to spend $500,000 in cash to Elon Musk, will anyone be willing to make that transfer? The problem is that we treat fiat currency as money and are more relaxed when it comes to cryptocurrency.

ene1980

hero member

Activity: 2002

Merit: 535

Quote from: Iranus on April 17, 2021, 06:20:26 PM

In most cases, new investors are victim of these scams. New investors have less idea about Bitcoin and they fall into the trap of these scammers after greed. Before investing in any place, people should check and verify the reviews about that platform, they should not invest anywhere as extra profit comes in a short time. At present, the scammers are using the names of well-known investors to attract people.

You can say that investors are the victims of the scams, people who are greedy and thinks that bitcoin is a magic doubling scheme will fall for these scams and they do not have the common sense to understand bitcoin, if they really understand the basic that once the coins left your wallet there is no way of getting it back they will not fall for these.

Quote from: Iranus on April 17, 2021, 06:20:26 PM

It is not possible to eradicate these fraudsters, so be aware of these fraudulent cycles and warn everyone.

It is possible to eradicate these fraudsters, awareness is the only solution that you cannot get free money and if anyone is offering by asking you to send money first 100% of the time it is a scam.

Iranus

hero member

Activity: 1792

Merit: 534

Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform

In most cases, new investors are victim of these scams. New investors have less idea about Bitcoin and they fall into the trap of these scammers after greed. Before investing in any place, people should check and verify the reviews about that platform, they should not invest anywhere as extra profit comes in a short time. At present, the scammers are using the names of well-known investors to attract people. It is not possible to eradicate these fraudsters, so be aware of these fraudulent cycles and warn everyone.

Altcoinsintel

member

Activity: 342

Merit: 24

We are all doing what we can and we keep reporting the scammers. I absolutely hate what they are doing but it is happening and many are getting scammed.
A report of a fake tweet takes just ten seconds of your time. Remember that you don't want to get scammed either. Just report the scams anywhere you see them.

verita1

member

Activity: 1358

Merit: 81

I do not understand why this happens. If this man in Germany lost his bitcoin by sending them to the fraudulent website where they mention Elon Musk as the owner. It means that this man is getting started in bitcoin because any bitcoiner knows that these websites are scams.
Elon Musk is not promoting these giveaways, anyone that offers you to double your bitcoin is a scam.
These events are often seen on Twitter where users thank Elon Musk for doubling his investment in these Giveaways. Every time I see them I report them on Twitter as scam.
More information on how they scam naive people.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/technology-56402378.amp

bobyhodob

sr. member

Activity: 1162

Merit: 253

Quote from: doctor877 on April 17, 2021, 03:35:54 PM

these kinds of scams are only acceptable to greedy people and newbies. musk dosent have anything to do with such hacks, he dosent even have time for such. if money was so easy to dash out everyone should be rich by now. dont always believe what you see online, ask questions and make research. it helps alot.

That's right bro, how greedy people like that send a large amount of their money and want an instant return of 2x, if there is such a system in this world it's not poor people, lol Grin

bobyhodob

sr. member

Activity: 1162

Merit: 253

how stupid it is to have that much bitcoin but want to duplicate it instantly, cases like many examples such as the case of a YouTuber account being hacked and hackers doing a live stream then asking someone to send their funds if they want to duplicate it instantly

doctor877

full member

Activity: 896

Merit: 115

these kinds of scams are only acceptable to greedy people and newbies. musk dosent have anything to do with such hacks, he dosent even have time for such. if money was so easy to dash out everyone should be rich by now. dont always believe what you see online, ask questions and make research. it helps alot.

vaultman

copper member

Activity: 493

Merit: 170

BountyMarketCap

Many times I saw similar sites in which bitcoins were distributed on behalf of Elon Musk, you just need to send bitcoins to the wallet indicated on the screen. I don’t know how you can lead to such a simple fraudulent scheme.

Sanugarid

full member

Activity: 1442

Merit: 153

★Bitvest.io★ Play Plinko or Invest!

Quote from: aysg76 on March 18, 2021, 02:11:13 AM

Musk has been in limelight from past year from gaining huge wealth and becoming richest person on the planet with net worth of $200 billion surpassing Jeff Bezos.This happened due to instant rise in Tesla share prices and Elon became socially active on crypto related tweets promoting Dogecoin to insane pumps and adding Bitcoin in his bio.But on the other hand he is associated with some scams also not done by him but by hackers in his name like vanity address scam I mentioned here Vanity address scam to the latest ones.

New scam which has been done in his name is A Germany man lost Bitcoins worth 4 crores by depositing them on fake deposit address mentioned on Musk twiiter which was done by hacker.

The man deposited on fake address to double his Bitcoins in 30 minutes time frame without even realising that it is clear scam.Why would Musk announce such a giveaway? People just got eroded away with the greed and ends up loosing all their money.We need to first recheck everything before doing such stupid acts and act wisely.

I don't really know why most people still caught on this kind of scheme just because a well-known individual such as Elon Musk posted on Twitter about giving away BTC and doubling their BTC in an instant. The strategy of these hackers level up and even made fake accounts of celebrities so that it would look real and convincing. One thing I could say is to doubt everything you see on the internet especially social media platforms and if its an instant money, it is definitely a scam so always remember that.

doomloop

hero member

Activity: 2408

Merit: 584

Quote from: aysg76 on March 18, 2021, 02:11:13 AM

New scam which has been done in his name is A Germany man lost Bitcoins worth 4 crores by depositing them on fake deposit address mentioned on Musk twiiter which was done by hacker.

The man deposited on fake address to double his Bitcoins in 30 minutes time frame without even realising that it is clear scam.Why would Musk announce such a giveaway? People just got eroded away with the greed and ends up loosing all their money.We need to first recheck everything before doing such stupid acts and act wisely.

I’m really shocked when I see people still falling this same old tactics that are being used by scammers. Even if you are not aware of scammers using this a tactics like this, you should at least know because your common sense should tell you that a genuine giveaway wouldn’t ask you to deposit a certain amount to their wallet address before you’re given anything, not to talk of it being doubled.

Another reason why I am surprised is because this is a tactics that has already been blown after the Twitter hack by these hackers which they were using lots of celebrities to promote this same scheme. People really have to be careful and stop giving out free money to these scammers that are everywhere .

jerry0

full member

Activity: 1750

Merit: 186

I seen tons of posts like this on twitter especially when elon musk the real one makes a post and imposters post send x amount of coins and receive x amount of coins.

But if you click on the link they posted... is your computer still safe though?

cyriljundos

member

Activity: 432

Merit: 10

Bitfresh - iGaming with 90s UI

it is the german guy who is wrong and we cant blame elun musk. he has been decieved by hackers and not aware of hackers, when it comes to investment you must think first before you invest , know the origin and behind what you invest in to secure your personal money. it serves a lesson to all crypto currency investors.

Topic: Elon Musk name once again used to fool people by hackers! (Read 903 times)