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Assuming you have a defective moral compass, is there any reason to not run this scam. Easiest $ ever. Twitter nor law enforcement can do anything. The same guy

Assuming you have a defective moral compass, is there any reason to not run this scam. Easiest $ ever. Twitter nor law enforcement can do anything. The same guys doing it over and over. You can run this scam and make an easy $50-200k with some twitter posts and then use the $ to pay off the mortgage or student loans, or take a cruise, buy a luxury car or whatever. no one would know if you mix the coins before cashing them out, not that law enforcement actually cares.

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viraptor 6y ago
> no one would know if you mix the coins before cashing them out There's lots of other ways you can fail. First how you obtain the large enough account to announce the scam. Then how you move the money to mixers. Then how you withdraw it. And likely a few steps in between. Also you can fail by telling someone about your scam - this happens a lot - many court cases have fun conversation records where the accused bragged to undercover police officers.
nkrisc 6y ago
I think to do it effectively you probably need to break a few laws, like using a stolen account of and kind to reach a large enough audience that will trust you. So that's a reason not to, unless you're already in deep.
cyral 6y ago
Published just today: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-twitter-hacker-graham-ivan-clark-gets-3-year-sentence/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-... Granted this case was much more high profile though.
- kristofferR 6y ago
  Pretty amazing that they only managed to net so little BTC (~20 BTC), considering the millions of people who were exposed to the scam.
GFischer 6y ago
Well, the people in the article (Whale Alert, the ones that gave BBC the article) absolutely traced the bitcoins that were cashed out, but as you mentioned, law enforcement did nothing.
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viraptor 6y ago

> no one would know if you mix the coins before cashing them out There's lots of other ways you can fail. First how you obtain the large enough account to announce the scam. Then how you move the money to mixers. Then how you withdraw it. And likely a few steps in between. Also you can fail by telling someone about your scam - this happens a lot - many court cases have fun conversation records where the accused bragged to undercover police officers.

nkrisc 6y ago

I think to do it effectively you probably need to break a few laws, like using a stolen account of and kind to reach a large enough audience that will trust you. So that's a reason not to, unless you're already in deep.

cyral 6y ago

Published just today: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-twitter-hacker-graham-ivan-clark-gets-3-year-sentence/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/i-was-a-teenage-... Granted this case was much more high profile though.

kristofferR 6y ago
Pretty amazing that they only managed to net so little BTC (~20 BTC), considering the millions of people who were exposed to the scam.

GFischer 6y ago

Well, the people in the article (Whale Alert, the ones that gave BBC the article) absolutely traced the bitcoins that were cashed out, but as you mentioned, law enforcement did nothing.

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