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July 15, 2020 08:44 pm GMT

Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden accounts push crypto scam after major Twitter hack

Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden accounts push crypto scam after major Twitter hack

No, sending your bitcoin to a random digital address will not magically result in twice as much bitcoin being sent back to you. 

And yet, the verified Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, big tech companies, and major cryptocurrency exchanges were all promising that very thing Wednesday in what appears to be yet another iteration of the oldest scam in the relatively young crypto-scam book. Twitter accounts belonging to Musk, Bill Gates, Apple, Uber, Coinbase, Binance, Gemini, Kraken, and Binance's CEO CZ all tweeted links to a site claiming to be giving away bitcoin — all you had to do was send a little its way, first.  Read more...

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