The Twitter accounts of major companies and individuals have been compromised in one of the most widespread and confounding hacks the platform has ever seen, all in service of promoting a bitcoin scam that appears to be earning its creator quite a bit of money.
I’m so incredibly surprised people smart enough to use bitcoin aren’t smart enough to not to fall for an obvious scam like this.
Thom Holwerda,
No one should be surprised they fell for an obvious scam like this, after all they were gullible enough to fall for an obvious scam like bitcoin.
Now I’ll duck and head for the door 🙂
” 2020-07-15 7:20 pm
Alfman
Thom Holwerda,
I’m so incredibly surprised people smart enough to use bitcoin aren’t smart enough to not to fall for an obvious scam like this.
No one should be surprised they fell for an obvious scam like this, after all they were gullible enough to fall for an obvious scam like bitcoin.
Now I’ll duck and head for the door ”
Whoever said anyone involved with Bitcoin was smart to begin with?
These are pretty much the same people who buy Time Shares on MT. Rushmore….
Alfman,
No need to “duck and head for the door”.
I think you might find this takedown interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7iyej5/bitcoin_exposes_the_massive_economic_illiteracy/
-> the poster was probably so embarrassed that he replaced his question with Lorem Ipsum
-> the first comment of “SirBastian” is a wonderful piece
kloot,
I’d like to see the original post, but regardless I agree with SirBastian. He didn’t even mention technical problems and the ludicrous magnitudes of power consumption.
He was probably going easy on the poster by sticking to 6 arguments :-).
I don’t think people who don’t understand tech accept technical arguments, and even among people with strong tech skills it isn’t easy to get them all to accept technical truths.
The world got off easy this time. Imagine if it had been the account of some world leader with a post claiming his country just sent a nuclear missile to another country… “But it was from a “Verified” Twitter account!” And they’re saying in this event most of the targeted users even had 2-factor authentication enabled.
rahim123,
You’re right it could have been a whole lot more dangerous if the hackers intended to cause social harm rather than make a few bucks.
> could have been a whole lot more dangerous
The *first* thing I thought when I “Twitter hack” in the “teaser title” at the beginning of the evening news was, “A hack on the elections?” (as in trying to sway voters) Okay – is it from China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran?” Only later did they reveal that it was just a mundane phishing scheme.
Its called greed. Most people bought bitcoin for the same reason, they just wanted to get rich
Each post of an old video of someone famous on Youtube brings in roughly US $20 000 to US $150 000:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/hq75v3/another_scam_going_on_right_now_youtube_is_almost/
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com%2Fr%2Fcryptocurrency+youtube+scam
How much is the scammer themselves, I’m afraid more than people think.
how can you tell anyone actually fell for that?
because i doubt anyone did, and as it was said there is no way to tell if the transactions on that wallet are made by the scammers themselves to make the wallet look more valid.
I posted something about Youtube above.
I think this would be the scammer spamming things like this: “Wow I send 25 ETH and got 100 ETH back, thank you Vitalik”.
Gotta make it more believable:
@UncleJoe : Send Bitcoin to bc1qxyJoe30330, you know, you know, the thing!
It’s an inside job.