Beware of all the Twitter ads that are spreading all those scam promotions about the fake crypto currencies. To promote their services and content, scammers can ‘promote’ a previously existing tweet by having it shown to other followers or users on Twitter.
If you are getting messages from Tesla, Elon musk, Gemini exchange, Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital, or other well-known companies or individuals for crypto currency giveaways, then run as far as you can from these types of posts because surely the accounts are being hacked and you are going to get scammed.
We recently reported that how bad actors are looting thousands of dollars by promoting Bitcoin, Ethereum and Doge crypto giveaways.
The security researchers like Zseano, Jake, and MalwareHunterTeam have detected a new technique that is being utilized by the crypto currency scammers i.e. via Twitter promoted tweets.
The technique includes the breakup of URLs in a way that the Twitter‘s advertisement fraud detection algorithms cannot distinguish them. This then leads you to fake landing pages which impersonate as the social capital; Tesla or Gemini exchange etc. and they lead the users to further actual scam sites which are themed as Tesla or Elon musk and have an address that holds a Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Dogecoin. Moreover, the users are said to send coins to the address and in exchange, they will get double the amount.
According to Bleeping Computer, till now a whopping $39K has been generated by the Bitcoin and Ethereum scams.
Just because a crypto app is in the app store doesn't mean it is safe. Recently an application by the name of Trezor was uploaded on the Apple store which was later found out that was a scam and the app was used for stealing the passwords and private keys through phishing.
So, readers are advised to take extra precautions when taking part in online giveaways, as most of them are these day are not much trustworthy.
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If you are getting messages from Tesla, Elon musk, Gemini exchange, Chamath Palihapitiya, Social Capital, or other well-known companies or individuals for crypto currency giveaways, then run as far as you can from these types of posts because surely the accounts are being hacked and you are going to get scammed.
We recently reported that how bad actors are looting thousands of dollars by promoting Bitcoin, Ethereum and Doge crypto giveaways.
The security researchers like Zseano, Jake, and MalwareHunterTeam have detected a new technique that is being utilized by the crypto currency scammers i.e. via Twitter promoted tweets.
IoC: 🌐hxxp://scapital.at/
— Jake (@JCyberSec_) March 9, 2021
🌐hxxps://scapital.at/btc
🌐hxxps://scapital.at/eth#BTC Wallet: 33VFr7WD2VMtBAVnt5ETN3ZJaQg43QS7M8#ETH Wallet: 0x5778Fb5d12DC6413Db9768633C48ADe4b30bae47#SCAM pic.twitter.com/FIVf7MMjEg
Another verified account is being used to spread Musk themed scam: https://t.co/QOd0B38MId
— MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) March 13, 2021
h/t https://t.co/mUsnNiNAmy@Spam404 pic.twitter.com/GWumG9KY0q
The technique includes the breakup of URLs in a way that the Twitter‘s advertisement fraud detection algorithms cannot distinguish them. This then leads you to fake landing pages which impersonate as the social capital; Tesla or Gemini exchange etc. and they lead the users to further actual scam sites which are themed as Tesla or Elon musk and have an address that holds a Bitcoin, Ethereum, or Dogecoin. Moreover, the users are said to send coins to the address and in exchange, they will get double the amount.
According to Bleeping Computer, till now a whopping $39K has been generated by the Bitcoin and Ethereum scams.
Just because a crypto app is in the app store doesn't mean it is safe. Recently an application by the name of Trezor was uploaded on the Apple store which was later found out that was a scam and the app was used for stealing the passwords and private keys through phishing.
So, readers are advised to take extra precautions when taking part in online giveaways, as most of them are these day are not much trustworthy.
Read next: Facebook announces a new AI that can automatically learn audio, textual, and visual representations from publicly available videos
