Tempted to look into and write something about the cat and mouse game that Twitter is playing with ETH giveaway scammers. This Google+ redirect trick is cleverhttps://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1002364129703706625 …
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These are great, thank you! Any idea where it started? I think it might have been this post by @VitalikButerin since he changed his display name a few days later https://web.archive.org/web/20180302040001/https:/twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/969042245709021184 …
The oldest one I can track down is this buzzfeed image capture from Feb 6. They all seem to have a Russian origin. They started with convincing permutations of the target username, but eventually created more automation to just appended numbers to target usernames instead.pic.twitter.com/n3fu3D6Fhe
Interesting! I figured they would start with Vitalik since that is more believable.
I fear attempting to divine their motivations and mind states is a path towards madness. Did they start by targeting fad/musk audiences? Half technical but not too technical audiences? Anybody with followers? New scams are even hitting high follower weather report stations.
Yeah it seems to be scaling up now and I’d imagine there are at least a half dozen teams running scams at this point. Curious if these may be from the same teams running Slack scams back in the dayhttps://twitter.com/backus/status/955241954320662528 …
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