news Breaking ! HUGE CRYPTO SCAM IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW ! Someone is getting rich in 5 minutes !

[Fadi H]

Hello Everyone,

A huge crypto scam is on effect right now !

On this moment, A hacker has found a gap into twitter which allowed him to tweet from any active twitter account,

All the following twitter accounts have been hacked :

- Bill Gates
- Elon Musk
- Joe Biden
- Warren Buffett
- Kanye West
- Michael Bloomberg
- Apple
- Uber
- Jeff Bezos

The hacker is claiming that he will be doubling payments sent to his BTC address using official accounts of many famous people, As of now he got around $115K in BTC !

Just wow!

 

[bmugford]

This is a major black eye for both Twitter and Bitcoin. The fact so many top users were able to be hacked on Twitter, accounts that should have extreme security, is a really bad look for their security.

All the suckers that sent Bitcoin in this scam, that money is gone for good. Unlike traditional payment methods there is no refund mechanism.

The guy might walk away with a few hundred thousand, and it will likely cost Twitter billions in market cap.

Brad

 

[7363824]

I seem to recall a security expert once stopped a virus or malware in it's tracks by simply registering the EMD for the virus. lol

https://www.wired.com/2017/05/accidental-kill-switch-slowed-fridays-massive-ransomware-attack/

Fascinating story. Its believed it was written to check for this random domain name being registered in an attempt to thwart security researchers. When they look at malware they do it in a sandboxed environment not connected to the internet but they spoof the existence of any website the malware connects to. So its suspected they checked for this random domain nobody would normally think to register because in a sandbox it would show as registered then the malware does nothing. This researcher found a reference to this domain when looking at this malware registered it to see what would happen and poof now the malware thinks every machine is a security researchers sandbox and won't actually do its thing

 

[tonyk2000]

Doesn't it mean that any twitter account can be accessed by thrird parties using some sort of a bug/backdoor on twitter end? It is unlikely that all mentioned persons and businesses did have their twitter accounts and/or devices hacked at the same time (all of them should have clicked on virus links, or used outdated OS, etc).

 

[Ante4L]

They'll exchange the BTC to Monero and complete their sad mission. Wont be able to trace it after.
Only way to find out who did it is on Twitters end, if they haven't covered their footsteps.

Sad.

 

[Samer]

You’re too late.

“So far, the Bitcoin address tweeted by the hackers has been sent over 11 Bitcoins, worth over $100,000.”

Source; Bloomberg

 

[Fadi H]

The following is the BTC address he's getting money on :

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/addr...TRq0aT_WqvsH3tUdM6T1RVd0ZU4xtL3eseHuTltpmsouE

As of the moment he got nearly 13 BTC

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Good luck trying to cash those out!

 

[Rhinnnn]

A domain name was also used in some of these tweets. Crypto for Health dot com. Registered at NameSilo earlier today.

The site is down now, but here it is on Web Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200715192340/http://cryptoforhealth.com/

Info found via:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/elon-musk-bill-gates-bitcoin-twitter-hack

 

[MA000]

This might be the start of taking down the bitcoin and all the crypto payments.
First step in the road.

 

[DomainTiger]

This channel probably should be part of education if people fall for this.

https://www.youtube.com/c/PleasantGreen/videos

If sounds too good to be true, it is NOT true.

 

[krishmk]

As long as those gullible people exist around the world - scams like this will happen.
Today its Twitter - tomorrow it could be something else.
Insatiable greed for Money overshadows common wisdom.

 

[Relist.com]

Amazing! I would have fallen for it.

 

[Fadi H]

NOT SATIRE; Deserves “General Section”

I think Twitter will manage; $100K nothing; grand scheme to them; prob to trace payments.
Really feels like something you’d find in
“The Onion” This is real life... Watch unfold lol.
Thanks for letting me know; @Fadi H

It seems the issue is still on going. And it's not just about the payments my friend, Reputation all the way down ⬇↡⬇↡⬇

 

[Samer]

It seems the issue is still on going. And it's not just about the payments my friend, Reputation all the way down ⬇⬇⬇

I already thought of Twitter to be cesspool;

I really try to avoid the political stuff

but i know Twitter best for getting first “scoop”..

Only.. Twitter itself is the actual news!

 

[Domain Home]

The hacker rightnow!

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

hmmm hackers.

I own Emotet.com

It has it's own Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotet

Emotet the world's most dangerous malware

I seem to recall a security expert once stopped a virus or malware in it's tracks by simply registering the EMD for the virus. lol

I can't find the article now.

"Emotet" in quotes 1,210,000 results
in title: emotet 178,000 results

 

[7363824]

 

[garptrader]

For more than a week now crypto YouTube videos have been bombarded with scam giveaways (ads preceding or during the video) supposedly from prominent tech industry leaders. They show a video of an interview with a famous tech personality and promise to return double what individuals send to the wallet address they provide.

 

[lock]

Loads of youtube videos also with the scam celebrity matching donations which were part of the hack.

 

[Keith]

This is a major black eye for both Twitter and Bitcoin. The fact so many top users were able to be hacked on Twitter, accounts that should have extreme security, is a really bad look for their security.

All the suckers that sent Bitcoin in this scam, that money is gone for good. Unlike traditional payment methods there is no refund mechanism.

The guy might walk away with a few hundred thousand, and it will likely cost Twitter billions in market cap.

Brad

It really isn’t bad for btc, if anything it’s exposure. Twitter however comes off terrible as you’d think a company of this magnitude would be ultra secure.

As for the people that were greedy and sent btc...that’s their problem. It’s the old Nigerian scam. Send me something first and I’ll give you much more in return. This scam is like someone trying to sell greed.com for $5k here at NP because they need quick cash, lol.

 

[3sixty]

The scam is obvious in the text, but you can't blame the folk who see this from verified twitter accounts and trust it.

Especially in these Covid times, they may believe that these celebrities or high network individuals are doing something good for the people.

As has been said, this has to be really worrying for Twitter. So many verified accounts have been hacked.

Because it has been done so easily and so obviously it compromises everything. Anyone who has ever tweeted on twitter anything can easily claim the message was not from them and that they were hacked.

The platform as of today is broke. Any movement created through it, supported by users through it and anything said through it has reasonable doubt that it could be fake and can be controlled by an external group. This is huge.

That is the big exposure of what has happened.

 

[Samer]

Woah

The world really is endingp

 

[Fadi H]

All the following and apparently a lot more have been hacked, Jeff Bezos - Bill Gates - Elon Musk - Kanye West - Apple - Bitcoin - Coinbase - BINANCE - CZ_Binance - Gemini - Kucoin - Gate .io - Coindesk - Uber - Tron - Justin Sun - Charlee Lee

Will twitter survive this ???

 

[Samer]

All the following and apparently a lot more have been hacked, Jeff Bezos - Bill Gates - Elon Musk - Kanye West - Apple - Bitcoin - Coinbase - BINANCE - CZ_Binance - Gemini - Kucoin - Gate .io - Coindesk - Uber - Tron - Justin Sun - Charlee Lee

Will twitter survive this ???

Warning: NOT SATIRE! This is Real News!

I think Twitter will manage; $100K nothing; grand scheme to them; issue trace payments.
Really feels like something find in; “The Onion” This is real life... Let’s Watch it unfold lol.
Thanks for letting me know.

Samer