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To me it’s the fake accounts impersonating a real company with direct links to malicious websites. These responses always get 100s of likes from other bots, and
by ryanSrich 5y ago
To me it’s the fake accounts impersonating a real company with direct links to malicious websites. These responses always get 100s of likes from other bots, and also dozens of replies from other fake bots to make it seem real.
To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working”
You’ll get dozens of replies from fake Coinbase support scams.
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- ghaff 5y agoWell, sure. Anything adjacent to the cryptogrift is going to be a cesspool. I very strongly suspect that the very different experiences that people have relate to who they follow and what they post.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working” Maybe this is the difference? Cryptocurrency attracts spammers and scammers at a rate far higher than other conversations. Now that you mention it, the only time I recall seeing spam lately was when I read the comments on some cryptocurrency Tweets. I usually avoid cryptocurrency discussions on Twitter because the signal to noise ratio on those is so low anyway.
- ryanSrich 5y agoThis could be the case, but I suspect if you tweeted “how to reset my chase bank account password” you might get the same level of spam. I don’t think it’s only crypto, just amplified in crypto.
- raydev 5y ago> To test this out, just Tweet something like “my Coinbase account isn’t working” Oh, well there's your problem. Unfortunately the network of people you're following are very close to giant network of scammers that has grown around crypto.