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Fake Elon Musk Twitter Bitcoin Scam Earned 180K in One Day

A widespread scam pretending to be from Elon Musk has earned scammers over 28 bitcoins or approximately $180,000 in a single day. The scam is being pulled off by attackers hacking into verified Twitter accounts and then changing the profile name to “Elon Musk”” They then tweet out that he

Source: 000 bitcoins. These posts are being promoted through Twitter advertising in order to give them wider visibility and to add legitimacy to the scam. In a one day

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