The scam, which uses the podcast host’s likeness to encourage people to send Bitcoin, has made $30,944 so far.
fake Joe Rogan crypto scam just bagged a Bitcoin.
According to Whale Alert, a Twitter bot that posts unusual (and typically very large) crypto transactions, a “fake giveaway scam” today earned 1 Bitcoin, or around $9,300.
As bait, the scammers used Joe Rogan, the DMT-loving, weed-smoking libertarian podcast host and comedian with 8.9 million subscribers on YouTube, along with right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.
According to Whale Alert’s new service, Scam Alert, the scammers had set up a website offering to give away free Bitcoin. Rogan and Shapiro were used to lure them in.
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