Twitter is trying their best to ban scammers from their platform, a hacker impersonates Elon musk’s twitter account and promises free cryptocurrency to his 22.5 million followers.
As the real Elon Musk was busy penning down some poetic words for his followers in the wee hours of Thursday, the impersonator showed up in his string line with a fake Twitter account, requesting his followers to exchange and gain in cryptocurrencies.
“As many of you know by now, we will soon be making Tesla a private company. It is an important step towards stability and it would be impossible to move forward in a desirable pace without making such decisions,” the impersonator wrote in a fake statement in the name of Musk on Medium.
“As a part of the reorganization, we will be introducing Bitcoin and Ethereum as official payment methods,” he said, adding that “it is one of the steps in moving forward as a company”.
Elon Musk, who was wakeful just before the impersonator joined his string line to trick his supporters, was yet to answer to this.
However, some of the Musk’s followers identified that it is fake account and replied to his tweet “Report this account, already stealing from people bitcoins,”
“How did it get verified,” asked another.
The head of SpaceX and Tesla has observed such attacks on his Twitter account earlier that use fraudulent accounts to fool his followers into sending them cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum.
“I want to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz,” Musk had earlier tweeted.
Twitter reacted to this ‘’by saying it was working on ways of bringing the issue under control’’ in a statement.
“We’re aware of this form of manipulation and are proactively implementing a number of signals to prevent these types of accounts from engaging with others in a deceptive manner,” The Verge reported, quoting the statement.
Last week Musk gave a weeping interview to The New York Times, speaking about his “excruciating” times at Tesla, his 120-hour a week work schedule and stating that he “nearly missed his brother’s wedding this summer and spent his birthday holed up in Tesla’s offices as the company raced to meet elusive production targets on a crucial new model”.
On August 7, Musk surprised the investment world with a Twitter announcement that he was considering taking Tesla private and that the funds needed to do so – which some financial analysts estimate at more than $70 billion – were “secured”.
Musk’s tweet affected financial blaze with Tesla shares immediately hit the roof by nearly 11 percent, however afterward they lost a good part of what they had gained and tanked further after Musk’s interview with the NYT.
Source – News18
