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For the love of god stop sending 'Elon Musk' your Ethereum. It's a scam.

February 21, 2018

People, please please please listen closely: Elon Musk is not giving away Ether

Scammers have swarmed Twitter in recent weeks in an attempt to trick people out of their hard-earned cryptocurrency, and as a particular tweet today makes clear they’re having a lot of success. 

The scam itself is incredibly simple, and starts with someone famous tweeting out some random statement. Like this, for example:

Today’s Falcon launch carries 2 SpaceX test satellites for global broadband. If successful, Starlink constellation will serve least served.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2018 Read more…

More about Twitter, Elon Musk, Scams, Ethereum, and Cryptocurrency


Source: Mashable | For the love of god stop sending 'Elon Musk' your Ethereum. It's a scam.

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