Elon Musk Twitter Account Impersonated By Scammers Stealing up to $175,000

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Despite Twitter attempting to ban scammers and impersonators on its platform, one impersonator broke into Tesla Chairman and CEO Elon Musk’s official account on Thursday with a fake lookalike verified account.

The scammers hacked verified account of Elon Musk, change the display name to “Elon Musk,” copy his profile photo and then started retweeting and pumping out Tweets about a fake Cryptocurrency giveaway in a bid presumably to convince people that it’s the official account of controversial Tesla boss, Elon Musk.

The scammers then post in comment threads started by the real Elon Musk, so as to give the impression of legitimacy. Some of the scam tweets said that Elon Musk was conducting “the biggest” crypto-giveaway in the world for those who use “Bitcoic”, and provided a link to...

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