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> And if you check the address, you can often see thousands of dollars scammed. Just like the fake "Thanks!" replies, I'm sure there are fake actual transactio
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> And if you check the address, you can often see thousands of dollars scammed.
Just like the fake "Thanks!" replies, I'm sure there are fake actual transactions, meaning the scammer sends bitcoin to itself to make it look legit. The fact that they pay transactions fees doesn't really change much.
So it's very hard to know how much of those thousands of dollars were actually scammed.
- russdill 9y agoThey don't bother, it's not worth trying to target people who actually check things. The scam tweet usually links to what amounts to a phishing page for crypto transaction tracking sites. It looks very real.
- TangoTrotFox 9y agoThe sort of person that would check transaction histories is not the sort of person that's going to believe, even for a second, that "@e10nmussk" asking for people to send them money is genuine. I would expect all those transactions are genuine. There's a lot of naive people in this world and they seem attracted to Twitter like flies to a light.