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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 11

      John Backus Retweeted Matt Stancliff

      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 …

      John Backus added,

      Matt Stancliff @mattsta
      wow, just noticed frauds are using google plus URLs. BUT if you click, no google plus. Redirects: tco -> buffly -> bitly -> fraud site. UNLESS "Twitterbot" is in your useragent, then final fraud site redirects to google plus so Twitter shows false domain name. #fixyershit pic.twitter.com/Srss6gXNQT
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    2. Matt Stancliff‏ @mattsta Jun 11
      Replying to @backus

      Matt Stancliff Retweeted Matt Stancliff

      The more exposure the better! Here's some additional references/research: - https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/961700400419160064 … - https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1002372761019297793 … - https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1004461829706248192 … - https://twitter.com/mattsta/status/1000838575447986176 … - https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/scammers-are-impersonating-elon-musk-and-donald-trump-steal …

      Matt Stancliff added,

      Matt Stancliff @mattsta
      this text appeared once on April 24 then there was a 3.5 week gap until it started routinely on May 15 @jack these scams are lasting for months with no visible action. why is twitter incompetent? it should take less than a week to fix dup username frauds plus copy spam problems. pic.twitter.com/wUiHFNZXJ5
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    3. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 11
      Replying to @mattsta

      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 …

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    4. Matt Stancliff‏ @mattsta Jun 11
      Replying to @backus

      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

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    5. John Backus‏ @backus Jun 11
      Replying to @mattsta

      Interesting! I figured they would start with Vitalik since that is more believable.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    6. Matt Stancliff‏ @mattsta Jun 11
      Replying to @backus

      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.

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      John Backus‏ @backus Jun 11
      Replying to @mattsta

      John Backus Retweeted John Backus

      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 …

      John Backus added,

      John Backus @backus
      The Ethereum Scam Database (http://etherscamdb.info ) is a great resource. Maintained by @myetherwallet and enforced by @metamask_io. We've had hundreds of scammers trying to impersonate @BloomToken and I always report addresses and phishing URLs. pic.twitter.com/9fSSJvz84i
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