Bitcoin scam on Twitter

[Bobby]

Twitter is not secure and low IQ people fell for a scam -

send $1,000 of Bitcoin to "Bill Gates" and
he'll send back $2,000 within 30 minutes
but you must act now. ;D


https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/15/tech ... index.html

Twitter blames 'coordinated' attack on its systems for hack of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Gates and others.

Updated 0325 GMT (1125 HKT) July 16, 2020


San Francisco (CNN Business)Twitter (TWTR) accounts belonging to Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Apple, among other prominent handles, were compromised on Wednesday in what Twitter said it believes to be an attack on some of its employees with access to the company's internal tools.
"We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools," Twitter's support team said late Wednesday.
The attackers posted tweets that appeared to promote a cryptocurrency scam.

The accounts, along with those of former President Barack Obama, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian West, Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mike Bloomberg, posted similar tweets soliciting donations via Bitcoin to their verified profiles on Wednesday.
"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time," Gates' tweet said, promising to double all payments to a Bitcoin address for the next 30 minutes. All the tweets were subsequently deleted.
"Once we became aware of the incident, we immediately locked down the affected accounts and removed Tweets posted by the attackers," Twitter said. "We have locked accounts that were compromised and will restore access to the original account owner only when we are certain we can do so securely."

The sheer number of prominent accounts impacted made it arguably the biggest security incident in Twitter's history. A hack like this is particularly concerning not just because of any financial scam that can be run, but because so many world leaders use Twitter — and some, like President Donald Trump, use it to announce major policy decisions. A hack that took over an account belonging to one of those leaders could have devastating consequences.
Last year, Dorsey's account was hacked, raising concerns about whether any account on the platform can truly avoid being compromised. The mechanism by which that hack occurred was fixed by Twitter after Dorsey's hack and there's no reason to believe it is to blame here.

[Black Orchid]

Anyone who would send $1000 supposedly to Bill Gates deserves to lose it.

[Bobby]

Anyone who would send $1000 supposedly to Bill Gates deserves to lose it.

In some ways they do.

[Redneck]

There are a lot of IDIOTS in this world Bobby!

[Super Nova]

To fall for this is a laugh.

I have been watching Scam Batters on youtube, have a look it is a laugh and you see in detail the scams.

Helps you se the signs of a scam email, call ...etc.

[Bobby]

There are a lot of IDIOTS in this world Bobby!

To fall for this is a laugh.

I have been watching Scam Batters on youtube, have a look it is a laugh and you see in detail the scams.

Helps you se the signs of a scam email, call ...etc.

Maybe people should have to pass an online IQ test before
being allowed to use any financial instrument?

[cods]

I seriously havent a clue what BITCOIN is all about... I always called it BITCON...more appropriate I am thinking..

but I did get invited to see if a person who presumably died overseas with no family to leave this massive fortune too..

this person who approached me said he was willing to go 50.50.with me who by chance had the same name...

all I had to do was send my details and the money was mine...

did you guys know when we read our brains dont exactly pick up every word I think the older you get the more words drop out.

hats why the aged are a good target for these arseholes..

[Bobby]

I seriously havent a clue what BITCOIN is all about... I always called it BITCON...more appropriate I am thinking..

but I did get invited to see if a person who presumably died overseas with no family to leave this massive fortune too..

this person who approached me said he was willing to go 50.50.with me who by chance had the same name...

all I had to do was send my details and the money was mine...

did you guys know when we read our brains dont exactly pick up every word I think the older you get the more words drop out.

hats why the aged are a good target for these arseholes..

dear Cods,

send $1,000 of Bitcoin to "Bill Gates" and
he'll send back $2,000 within 30 minutes
but you must act now.