Important scam notice to you all

[CryptoDemon 370]

3 minutes ago, magd said:

These people were unable to enter and obtain cryptocurrencies, so they began to use the names of famous people to steal. It is very good for you to share the addresses of these accounts on the forum so that we can take our precautions

One of the most famous man when we talk about crypto currency is Satoshi nakamoto not only because he is the creator of Bitcoin but also because he is helping others.

[Nezar 7169]

At that time, very large numbers of accounts of famous platforms and personalities were hacked and the reason for the hack was a Twitter employee who received a message containing a link that was sent by the hacker, and it turned out later that the hacker was a young man and it is good that everything has been recovered, but this is proven Twitter's security system is weak and has lost the confidence of many users, and it is likely that we will be able to see more hacks and theft in the future.

[kyoukage01 3181]

Here's a bit of a recent update on this issue:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/alleged-second-teen-mastermind-behind-twitter-s-bitcoin-giveaway-hack

Spoiler

Alleged second teen mastermind behind Twitter’s 'Bitcoin giveaway' hack

Turner Wright

 

Graham Ivan Clark may not be the only juvenile responsible for the massive Twitter breach on July 15.

 

The FBI executed a search warrant against a 16-year-old Massachusetts resident in connection with the massive Twitter breach.

 

According to a New York Times report, on Sept. 1 authorities raided the home of a 16-year-old boy who may have played an “equal, if not more significant role” in the infamous July 15 hack, which resulted in millions of followers of high-profile Twitter accounts being falsely offered a 2-to-1 ‘giveaways’ for any Bitcoin (BTC) sent.

 

The investigation revealed he may have posed as a Twitter employee or contractor to fool legitimate ones into entering their login credentials to fake websites where he could then capture them.

 

The report stated that the teenager coordinated the Twitter attack starting in May with 17-year-old Graham Ivan Clark, the alleged mastermind. While Clark was discovered through his Discord chat records, the unnamed teenager reportedly used encrypted messaging systems like Signal and Wire, making it harder for investigators to identify him.

 

The unnamed individual could be the fourth charged following an investigation by the FBI, IRS, U.S. Secret Service, and local authorities. Clark was arrested on July 31 on 30 felony charges. In addition, 19-year-old U.K. resident Mason John Sheppard, and 22-year-old Florida resident Nima Fazeli have also been charged by federal prosecutors.

 

On Aug. 4, Clark pleaded not guilty to 17 counts of communications fraud, 11 counts of illegal use of personal information, one count of organized fraud over $5,000 and one count of illegally accessing a computer or electronic device. He is currently in jail on $725,000 bail.

 

The FBI has not yet presented any charges for the youth for his alleged involvement in the incident, which resulted in Twitter users sending 12 BTC — roughly $144,000 as of this writing — to different addresses posted during the attack.

 

It turns out that there are multiple people involved in this incident, not just one. And to think that the latest one caught was a 16-year old teenager.

 

If the ones caught are indeed guilty, they should be punished accordingly. And may this be a lesson for us as well: not to let ourselves get get duped easily by "too good to be true" offers.

 

[decemberends 1881]

never had thought about famous people like them getting hacked welp i felt bad for others got scammed for 1000$ thats alot cant believe alot has fell for this well while it famous they used the advantage of the trusty accounts while gave alot chances believing its true. 

[Projectcrypto 4382]

Thank you for this information because without your information some of us working on his forum might likely fall victim of these scammers which might lead them to cheat us when we may have even forgotten them. Hackers are very smart so be security concious about any suspecious news you see claiming such act.

[rekter 8129]

On 8/28/2020 at 7:44 PM, SilverF said:

These events reveal the lack of security on Twitter, they are events that are repeated regularly, a few weeks ago profiles, such as the United States Army, Donald Trump or Binance, again attacked with similar messages, unfortunately many lost  your money.

I never saw this happening again. Can you show me link to the news where Trump got hacked too? Because he wasn't hacked at the same case op is talking about. In fact i haven't seen anyone hacking his account.

[bogdanoff 3173]

This information about the twitter hack may have made people understand that Bitcoin is monitored by many agents and the blockchain is not anonymous and private. There may be some ways to hide the identity but a mistake is very probable. Also made it known that many are not understanding the dangers of these scammers and how to protect themselves. It as an obvious hack and still people willingly gave their bitcoin to scammers.

[Swapzone 174]

Yeah, that was a hack to Twitter done by 17-year old boy in Florida. Later after that, he was caught by the police.

[Cryptic 0]

Thank you for the important information because some of people like the newbie would baited. But as you can see the offer is good to be true, so obviously it is scam, always keep in mind that there are no easy money. You should have work for it, and put time and effort.

[Aolugojo sama 60]

Indeed, believe it or not, yesterday a large number of the records were hacked to popular individuals on Twitter, everybody ought to be cautious and not click on any connection because these are gigantic tricks pointed toward taking cash

[Maaz sultan 265]

On 7/16/2020 at 1:23 PM, Ridam said:

Well this type of scam was running for a long time in YouTube live by hacking big channels with even million of subscriber. Now hackers are targeting billionaires person for this attack. It's bad to hear but I'm sure many of people had already sent to the address who are new at this Crypto industry. And because of act like this Crypto and Bitcoin are blamed for illegal activities. Maybe with help of Twitter the people behind this got caught.

Yes we hope that the criminals for hacking of these accounts will catch and the social media sites will tight their security that these king of hacking never happens next time but it takes some time .

[Fixfin 2569]

Scams are everywhere and somehow these scams that claim to double your money are finding victims very often, I hope there is found a way to stop them and I seen youtube lately done some changes and now is not allowing the change of image and name of the youtube channel, unless perhaps contacting an admin first and making a special request, so there are ways to make the work of these scammers more difficult.

[BraveHeart01 1569]

Doubler scams and hyip programs are very common these days  most of people  do this to scam the sinple people  to get easy money out if them we should learn it by proper care and stay safe.

[Izeal 4404]

Yes, hackers are increasing in the cryptocurrency but the technology for the cryptocurrency is so strong no one can hack it. Imagine they can hack the twitter account of the famous people. How professional are they? But they are unsuccessful for hacking cryptocurrency. But it's better to add security like 2FA to secure your cryptocurrency.

[khan22 3478]

On 7/16/2020 at 11:46 AM, Abiaan said:

Hello Cryptotalkers, A famous personnel like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Uber, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, Cashapp, Uber, Justin Sun, Bitcoin, Coinbase, Gemini , soon twitter account is getting hacked and been scamming the people claiming to double their money , please be aware and dont fall in to that, i dont think there is anything to explain much about it, so im attaching some picture below : 

 

Source: Facebook & Twitter : https://twitter.com/PMBreakingNews/status/1283509287772397569

I saw this report and so many peoples lost their money and i hope next time this will not happened again becasue now the security of the twitter is so much strong and good and now the hackers will not hack the high peoples accounts.

[Omar Ommeish 4872]

Yes, it did happen, and many people have fallen into the trap and send money to the hackers, but it is good that the hacker responsible for this operation has been caught.

[percare 3192]

This was the twitter hack that made some people lose money by believing that every celebrity on twitter that was hacked was suddenly making this giveaway. Very strange that they found many victims. They were caught but we haven't heard anything recently about this.

[Digital 387]

Thanks for providing this vital information scammers are very smart they hacked the account of famous people and billionaires so that they can capture the attention of masses so that they can defraud people we should always provide strong security to our social media accounts.

[MalikAdnan 1662]

Yes there are many scams that provide to people that are used for earning so be careful. Mostly high profile peoples become victims of these type of scam but normal and less economic type people never allow because they can't afford. Scam is invest and earn more huge money. 

[khan22 3478]

On 7/16/2020 at 12:29 PM, Adill khandakarya said:

Yes...you are right...I agree with you

 

 

 they have enough money to wast,, but we are the people of poor society.... that's why we can't prefer it or accept it....     actually many people will accept this kind of scams by their greed ... but I will not suggest it to do

So many peoples send their money to these peoples account and they make a scam and this is not good. Hackers always make the high money just in a short time and the innocent peoples will always lost their money. We need to open our minds and think that the celebrity why need our 1000$ if he send us 2000$ after some time.

[Nikel_jery 49]

That has been news that I have known for a long time, it is very bad and makes the image of cryptocurrency bad in people's eyes , it will make people do not want to use bitcoin for fear of experiencing the same thing, 

[Teminali69 1081]

On 7/15/2020 at 11:46 PM, Abiaan said:

Hello Cryptotalkers, A famous personnel like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Apple, Kanye West, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, Uber, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffet, Cashapp, Uber, Justin Sun, Bitcoin, Coinbase, Gemini , soon twitter account is getting hacked and been scamming the people claiming to double their money , please be aware and dont fall in to that, i dont think there is anything to explain much about it, so im attaching some picture below : 

Thanks for this alert, it is almost impossible to think twitter can be hacked like this, so I'm pretty sure many have fallen victims of this hack. I always say knowing the old ways of scammers does not keep one safe from future scams, scammers gets smarter everyday.

[el-Muhammady 718]

We have to be vigilant at all the time because scammers have a lot of ways to cheat people both in cryptoworld and outside crypto. The mostly send people message in email blackmail them to send some amount of BTC or ethereum please be wise and don't send if not you won't receive that coins you send again.

[Irungu 4299]

I think this is a problem that should be fixed very fast its becoming really bad for so many scammers, even on you tube, i had one on ripple and it was posted on the channel of the official site of the Ripple CEO, the right idea being that you have to follow certain processes that you cannot imagine

[George10 9932]

There are many scamers out there and they are scamming in different ways like the one mentioned above and we should always be alert of them so that we don't get scammed.