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Twitter allowing obvious scams being promoted

• soneca 8y ago
  It is the second I see today. I am guessing the modus operandi is that the scammers hack a verified account, change the name to Elon Musk and promote a tweet saying it is giving away 10,000 bitcoins. From what I see in some replies, they ask the victim to give then 0.5 bitcoin promising to give 5 btc back. They use some other hacked verified accounts (with name unchanged), to reply the tweet stating that it worked for them
  • mtmail 8y ago
    And it might be temporarily because when I view https://twitter.com/farahmenswear/ https://twitter.com/farahmenswear/ now the name is unchanged, no profile picture. Seven hours ago several Musk/Tesla related photos got posted which would be unusual for a fashion brand and doesn't fit their other tweets.
• 2upmedia 8y ago
  This is actually a problem across multiple social networks. On Facebook and Instagram there's been a lot of scams recently with people selling stuff way below retail. They're complete scams. I reported it to Facebook through their mobile UI and they didn't really investigate it.
• andymoe 8y ago
  Yeah I flag these constantly. Been going on for a good year at least.