There's a scam going around in which bots reply to tweets from cryptocurrency influencers with 409 scams ("I'm giving away BTC! Send BTC to this address and I'll double it!"). The bots use the same name and icon of the influencer, and have thousands of likes per post.
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This is the first I’ve seen of actual verified accounts being used to cryptospam
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How do they hijack the blue checkmark?
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