How the crooks steal your money Twitter: four popular schemes
Source:a High level of fraud — one of the main problems of the cryptocurrency market. Partly due to the large number of attackers governments continue to treat the sector with caution. The mood of the officials passed to institutional investors that are not yet ready to enter such a risky market.
most Active scammers are on Twitter — they create to trick users create fake accounts of celebrities and asked to send them at the expense of a few esters or XRP. Although deception seems too simple, many users are conducted on a trick. Alas, the leadership of the social network can not fight this type of fraud. Tell what techniques to trick users on Twitter, the scammers most often.
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the Creation of fake accounts has become so common, that reputable investors, experts and businessmen in the profile description instead of nickname or middle name adds the phrase "do Not distribute ETH/BTC".
it Looks surreal, but when scammers create a fake account, they copy the name of the celebrity along with the phrase. And immediately write a post in which I propose to send them some coins.
Sometimes the accounts of the fraudsters differ from the original only for a few characters. Often has posts with a drawing of coins appear under the recordings in this profile. In turn, the hackers achieve lock original account that his owner did not notice the deception, and not complained to the administration of the social network.
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Some scammers are trying to confuse users by placing posts next to the real messages of those they represent. Other in an attempt to steal money tend to attack the records that mention a large number of people.
In may, South African exchange iceCUBED has published in his Twitter post, where he mentioned the most influential people in kriptonyte. Among them was the founder of Litecoin Charlie Lee, developer of Monero Ricardo Spagna, founder of the Lightning Labs Elizabeth Spark, and others. A few minutes later, after the publication of the scammers posted an entry notice about the free distribution of Esters. Thus readers might think that the action with the coins supports not only exchange but also some of the most influential people in the industry.
The target of the fraudsters are not only the profiles of the exchanges, CryptoStream and well-known analysts. but the accounts of the journalists. Scamera fair to assume that among the subscribers there are users of different social groups and people with different experiences.
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Another common method of fraud — cloning accounts. Scamera create a few dozen profiles that I try to tell as much detail as possible about the celebrity.
for Example, a description official profile analyst Dennis Parker sounds dry — "Bitcoin maximalist". In version Scam Parker "foodie, editor and connoisseur of wines, representative of the "unwashed masses»". It is easy to imagine that inexperienced users second account seems more plausible.
theto Be both Shrem and McAfee
Scammers try to mimic different players of the stock market, but they have clear favorites — Charlie Shrem and John McAfee. Under these names was registered a few hundred accounts.
In the case of Shrem, the situation comes to the absurd — the attackers register a profile with too many digits or incoherent letters in the link in the hope that users will take the bait and send them your money. It looks like this:
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