Tag: Elon Musk

Despite the increased security efforts, Twitter is still unable to weed out scam accounts, as U.S. retail giant Target became the latest victim of bitcoin scam hacks, The Next Web reported on November 13, 2018. This comes soon after a verified account on Twitter disguised as Elon Musk was found distributing “free bitcoins” Lucrative Twitter Scams Getting out of Hand,…

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Cryptocurrency scammers have impersonated Tesla CEO Elon Musk, by hacking and compromising several verified Twitter accounts on November 5, 2018. According to Business Insider, while Twitter has previously attempted to stop impersonation scams, the hackers have managed to promote their tweets and capitalize on the cryptocurrency frenzy. Scammers Hack Verified Accounts On November 5, 2018, a scammer hacked Pathe UK,…

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Looking to get rid of malicious botnets impersonating him, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reached out to Dogecoin creator Jackson Palmer in a September 16 tweet to help him build a solution to push out crypto scammer bots from the platform. Musk Still Hunting for a Solution Elon Musk, Tesla’s billionaire CEO, has been creating ripples in the Twitter space with…

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After a week of positive developments and rallying crypto prices, the market closed at $6,600 mark.  The main bitcoin-negative news this week was the announcement by U.S. Department of Justice that Russian intelligence offers, who allegedly tampered with the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign by hacking the DNC and the Clinton campaign, were using bitcoin (BTC) to fund their operations. In…

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