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Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
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#32The simplest solution would be to hire 2 interns familiar with crypto twitter to sit down and manually ban the fake replies full-time for a couple of months. Would that really be so costly/difficult?
Is it in Twitter's (financial) interest that to remove the spam or keep it going? I'm honestly asking.
More bots more growth!
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#33Explain to me as someone not into cryptocurrencies, why ethereum specifically?
I'm not sure, but I suspect it's because it has the most liquidity (trading pairs, trading volume) after bitcoin, and much lower transaction fees.
Another factor could be that lot of people already have Ethereum accounts, and ETH, given it is the most widely used cryptocurrency by daily transaction count. Many people have an Ethereum wallet just to be able to buy and hold ERC20 tokens.
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#35When I see one of these I often report it (just one more finger in the dike) -- but Twitter's report options only include "spam" and "abusive/harmful"; I'm not sure what's the closest option for fraud and impersonation.
Unfortunately the twitter report options are a tree, so it's hard to find the right thing. I believe under abuse there's an "impersonation" option, I've used it before.
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#36When I see one of these I often report it (just one more finger in the dike) -- but Twitter's report options only include "spam" and "abusive/harmful"; I'm not sure what's the closest option for fraud and impersonation.
Unfortunately the twitter report options are a tree, so it's hard to find the right thing. I believe under abuse there's an "impersonation" option, I've used it before.
Oh thanks, I’ll look for that next time. Of course there’ll be a next time.
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#37Wouldn’t this be super easy to filter out with some kind of ML scheme?
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#38Agreed, it's getting absurd. Practically every post from an official cryptocurrency team's Twitter account gets numerous replies from an account designed to look just like the official account. Typically, they post a poster stating that there is an Ethereum giveaway, and to enter: one simply needs to give a small amount of Ethereum to the wallet address in the poster. This is supposedly to have the wallet address mad…
What's even more absurd is how much funds in ETH are there in these accounts. For instance I saw one scam post advertise this address a day or two ago, https://etherscan.io/address/0x7DB9656FC8435F765DF5748E32Bf3... ~15k USD worth funds scammed out of people. Not entirely sure if I find this funny or depressing.
I'm ashamed to admit the first one of these I saw ('Musk' celebrating a launch last year) I was totally credulous of and forwarded it on to a couple of ETH-owning friends who quickly put me in my place (..and subsequently disavowed friendship :)..). I spent the next 24 hours on ETH-tracking sites watching as these bastards raked in nearly $80,000, from that one scam alone.
In my defence, I don't use Twitter much, and I mistook the value of ETH 'Musk' was asking for at around $20 rather than $200+ - had it been my own money, I would've been far more eagle-eyed and cautious.
Still, I was amazed/horrified at the gall and success of these people.
I never cease to be surprised at how unremorsefully sociopathic some people can be when it comes to getting their hands on other people's money.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's even more absurd is how much funds in ETH are there in these accounts. For instance I saw one scam post advertise this address a day or two ago, https://etherscan.io/address/0x7DB9656FC8435F765DF5748E32Bf3... ~15k USD worth funds scammed out of people. Not entirely sure if I find this funny or depressing.
I'm ashamed to admit the first one of these I saw ('Musk' celebrating a launch last year) I was totally credulous of and forwarded it on to a couple of ETH-owning friends who quickly put me in my place (..and subsequently disavowed friendship :)..). I spent the next 24 hours on ETH-tracking sites watching as these bastards raked in nearly $80,000, from that one scam alone. In my defence, I don't use Twitter much, and…
Sure they may get away with it.
But the curse is that even if no one catches them: They'll always know that they did it.
Karma will take its toll.