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It's still happening. I just saw this blue checkmark account linking to cryptocurrency scams only 2 hours ago: https://twitter.com/sephr/status/1284310424855343

• jordansmith 6y ago
  That’s a different scam that has been going on for years. They phish/crack random, usually inactive, verified accounts. And then they chance the display name / profile picture to Elon’s. Then they reply to his tweets with this message
• Gaelan 6y ago
  Those have been happening for a long time before this, and consist of taking over some some little-known verified account (presumably through phishing, password reuse, and other such conventional means), changeing the (non-unique) display name and profile picture to Elon Musk and doing some bitcoin scammery. The actual well-known accounts are unaffected.
• aserafini 6y ago
  I believe that’s just a fake screenshot of an Elon Musk tweet.
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