Major Twitter account scam uses high-profile handles to scam people for Bitcoin

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On Wednesday afternoon, a dozen or so major Twitter accounts were compromised in an organized attack that scammed unsuspecting people out of tens of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin.

The event began at around 4PM Eastern time and lasted for about two hours, during which compromised accounts with millions of followers Tweeted various “feeling generous” scam posts. This is when followers are encouraged to send an amount of money to a specified address with promise they would receive double the amount back. Spoiler alert, nobody gets money back.

Messages were sent from the compromised accounts of Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Kanye West, Cash App, Apple, Wiz Khalifa, Warren Buffet, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Barack Obama, MrBeast, Floyd Mayweather, and XXXTentacion. Even crypto accounts of Gemini, Coinbase, Biance, and Coindesk were affected.

Here are some of the Tweets, all of which seem to direct to the same Bitcoin address with the premise that they’d receive double the money you sent.

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