As I was browsing through my twitter thread, I saw a strange thing.
Popular accounts like Binance, Changpeng (Binanc ceo), Coinbase, Gemini, (and many more accounts) got their accounts compromised and a malicious link is seen floating around:
Have a look at a screen snippet below:
Here's the link to one such compromised tweet:
*This is just for reference, please don't click on the cryptoforhealth link in the tweet.
I repeat! Dont send any funds to anyone!!! Its a scam going on!! some hacker gained access to the accounts.
I've shared a few examples, so if you find any tweet, with the "Cryptoforhealth" thing,
DO NOT CLICK ON THAT LINK
Stay safe!
Share with your friends to make them aware!
(I'll be updating the post and add in a list of the compromised accounts soon)
Edit:
Remember: Official accounts of Exchanges/CEOs and support staff will never ask ANYONE to send funds. If you see them asking for funds, or doing shady giveaways, it means their accounts are compromised!
Update:
Even Bitcoin Twitter handle got affected by this mess.
Bitfinex account got hacked as well
This is legit guys! lol
(No I'm joking)
One twitter user recently shed some light on the domain details:
I believe almost all the major accounts have been hacked.
The BTC Address of the scammer: bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
Scammer's wallet link: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
On further checking, I am able to see 0.6457 BTC in the scammer's wallet.
Oh God! So many people are even falling for this scam!
First update: When I noticed, it had only 0.5 BTC.
Look at it now.
I dont know how many people will fall for this foolishness.
Update: More accounts that got affected:
Bill Gates,
UBER,
Apple,
CashApp,
Kucoin,
Elon Musk,
Ripple,
CharlieLee,
Tronfoundation,
Jeff Bezos,
(and the list goes on!)
DO NOT SEND FUNDS TO ANYONE!
(I wish I could make the font even bigger)
Stay safe!
And please share this with all the people and ask them not to waste their money.
They managed to hack into Bill Gate's account as well omg....
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Nothing is free...people should understand this rather than getting fooled...
Of course! But many people wont understand!
Thats why people spend so much time orchestrating something like these scams :P
Look at the wallet! It got some 1.3 BTC now... Sadly
Here's the wallet address: bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
LoL
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:P :P Some people are even sending funds lol
Great warning.
Can't believe people actually fall for stuff like that but they do.
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Thanks!
But it looks sad, as I currently see almost
5.77900620 BTC in the scammers's account....
So many people are falling for the scam!
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Thanks for sharing. Useful
shared with my friend
Just continues to highlight the fact your social media account isn’t actually yours if you have to trust a single centralised authority to keep it up and clean.
Bring on the decentralised web.
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Absolutely...
But again, if people have bad intentions, they can do that anywhere :D
(Example: Steem hostile takeover)
Though we as a community disagreed and hardforked to Hive.