The Twitter page of the television series "Almost Human" of the American television network Fox was compromised, after which scammers turned it into a fake Twitter profile of TRON founder Justin Sun with the tag @Almost Human FOX in order to defraud naive users of money.
Posts about the TRON network began appearing on the page on July 21.
It appears that Fox, which produced the TV series in 2013, did not notice that the page had been hacked. Fortunately, a quick search reveals that no funds were received from any Ethereum or Bitcoin wallet addresses associated with this particular scam, but this could happen unless Fox or Twitter intervenes.
It is worth noting that for the purpose of cryptocurrency scams, scammers often repost original posts from a fake page, or send scam links in the comments of the original post to make it easier to deceive users. Using fake Twitter profiles to scam people has become a trend recently. And this isn't the first time a scam has spread through a verified page.
While Twitter's terms stipulate that updating your username will cause you to lose your identity verification badge, it appears that your display name can be changed without losing your verification. Worldblogs have previously been hit by a virus that allowed users to update their usernames without losing their blue mark.
Despite numerous calls from blockchain industry influencers such as Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Twitter has largely ignored the epidemic of cryptocurrency scams, even after the company's CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was "working on it."
As time passes, the number of cryptocurrency scams on Twitter is growing. A few weeks ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk (whose fake pages were also created by scammers) went to a meeting with representatives of Twitter to discuss the problem of cryptocurrency scams.
Twitter really better deal with the problem, even if Elon Musk started talking about scams on this network.
According to thenextweb.com
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