Free Ethereum spam bots are ravaging Twitter
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#2Sorry, it's not clear to me, what exactly is the con that these bots are running?
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#4Sorry, it's not clear to me, what exactly is the con that these bots are running?
You can find an example here
https://twitter.com/BitMEXdotcom/status/997099326714335234
The first post is from an official exchange. The rest isn’t. Take careful note of the usernames and like counts
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#5Sorry, it's not clear to me, what exactly is the con that these bots are running?
- Famous twitter personality A posts something.
- (Usually) the first reply to their tweet is a bot with the exact same avatar BUT a slightly misspelled name of personality A offering 1000 ethereum in exchange for .10 ETH or what have you.
- There are people gullible enough to send them ETH/any other crypto
- Profit
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#6Agreed, 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 made known to the "staff" and in turn: the user will receive several times more Ethereum back.
It's clearly still roping in people and is highly prevelant. I'm shocked that Twitter's staff hasn't taken much evasive action. These spam/scam accounts keep springing up left, and right with no end in sight.
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#7You know there's a problem when any prominent crypto figure has to put "not giving away free Eth" in their twitter name to help combat the spam.
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#8Sorry, it's not clear to me, what exactly is the con that these bots are running?
- Famous twitter personality A posts something. - (Usually) the first reply to their tweet is a bot with the exact same avatar BUT a slightly misspelled name of personality A offering 1000 ethereum in exchange for .10 ETH or what have you. - There are people gullible enough to send them ETH/any other crypto - Profit
Back when they were super prevalent on Elon Musk's tweets, I'd look up the wallets and sure enough people were dumb enough to send it coins.
What gets me is the stupidly obvious fake replies saying it works.
Honestly the best solution is to open verification to everyone, not just notable people, anyone that actually wants to hand over their ID and prove they are who they say they are and let us filter out non verified users. If they don't want verification to look like an endorsement, that's what they need to do. Otherwise it is an endorsement.
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#9A fool and their money are easily parted
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#10A fool and their money are easily parted
The real problem is these accounts that are actually giving away free Etherium. When one account actually delivers it enables the whole ecosystem of fraud to perpetuate.
Please message https://twitter.com/FreeForYou - and tell them to STOP giving away all these free monies!!!