Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway Scam Costs This Man BTC Worth $600K
A German man has shared his story about how he fell for the Elon Musk bitcoin giveaway scam. He lost 10 bitcoins to the scam, worth almost $600K at the current price. “I’d just thrown away the game changer for my family, my early retirement fund, and all the upcoming holidays with my kids,” he revealed. Fake Elon Musk Bitcoin Giveaway Scams Continue to Dupe Investors With the price of bitcoin repeatedly hitting record highs, Tesla investing $1.5 billion in the cryptocurrency, and Elon Musk’s various crypto tweets, there has been a rise in bitcoin giveaway scams....
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says reports of cryptocurrency scams have skyrocketed. In particular, people have reported sending more than $2 million in cryptocurrency to Elon Musk impersonators within the past six months. Elon Musk Impersonators and Other Cryptocurrency Scams The FTC published “Consumer Protection Data Spotlight” Monday. FTC analyst Emma Fletcher wrote, “Reports to the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel suggest scammers are cashing in on the buzz around cryptocurrency and luring people into bogus investment opportunities in record numbers.”....
"If I had a Dogecoin for every crypto scam I saw..." said the Tesla CEO to a TED Talk crowd in Vancouver. With a net worth of reportedly more than $300 billion, Elon Musk said he could “technically afford” to purchase Twitter outright, but also had plans to change the user experience of the major social media platform.In a Vancouver TED conference held Thursday, Musk told curator Chris Anderson that if his offer to buy Twitter was successful, he would consider changing the way the platform handles controversial content, by not promoting certain tweets and adding the ability to edit tweets....
Telsa’s new Technoking, Elon Musk, said that he is selling a song about NFTs as a non-fungible token (NFT). Many people have expressed their interest in buying it on social media. Artist Beeple made him an offer for $69 million and bids for his tweet on Valuables are up to $1.121 million. Elon Musk Selling an NFT Elon Musk, the new Technoking of Tesla, announced via Twitter Monday that he is selling a song about NFTs as an NFT. At the time of writing, his tweet has garnered 42.7K comments and has been liked 176.2K times. His 2:20-minute-long video has been viewed more than 8.5....
Deepfake videos victimize all kinds of individuals. That includes influential people like Elon Musk. A new scam involving a Deepfake video of Musk spreading an investment opportunity that happens to be a dodgy or illegal crypto trading platform has gone viral. Crypto scams have been mushrooming quickly on Twitter, such as with the hacked account […]