BTC scammers were on a rampage on Twitter late Wednesday, as many top personalities, had their accounts tweeting about a BTC giveaway. Later, it became obvious that the breach was much more serious when leading brands and famous people including, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, and Uber, tweeted that they would double your bitcoin.
However, Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the world’s leading crypto exchange Gemini, disclosed that the scammers were only able to make away with “a paltry sum,” though he wondered if there were underlying reasons for the attack.
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Despite gaining control of the most prominent accounts on Twitter, it appears the attacker has made off with only a paltry sum thus far. Very little to show for, given the options and what was at stake. Maybe this wasn't about the money….
— Cameron Winklevoss (@cameron) July 16, 2020
Recall that a few days ago, Nairametrics reported how crypto scammers gained about $24 million worth of BTCs in the first six months of 2020.
As the COVID-19 pandemic kept a lot of individuals more active online, fraudsters have pulled dozens of different types of scams such as fake ICOs, BTC recovery, fake exchanges, giveaways, video scams, fake tumblers, Ponzi schemes, malware and many more.
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The scammers deceive their intended victims by offering one or all of the following: no taxes, high profits, little effort, and no risk. It’s thus projected by Whale alert that these fraudsters could gain about $50 million dollars before the end of 2020.
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, finally tweeted:
“Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened. We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.”
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Meanwhile, the price of bitcoin remains largely unaffected by the news of the hack, as it is currently still stuck at around $9,200.
Tough day for us at Twitter. We all feel terrible this happened.
We’re diagnosing and will share everything we can when we have a more complete understanding of exactly what happened.
💙 to our teammates working hard to make this right.
— jack (@jack) July 16, 2020
Twitter is dead, long live Utopia ecosystem