[CosmicSteve]

Agreed, it's getting absurd. Practically every post from an official cryptocurrency team's Twitter account gets numerous replies from an account designed to look just like the official account.

Typically, they post a poster stating that there is an Ethereum giveaway, and to enter: one simply needs to give a small amount of Ethereum to the wallet address in the poster. This is supposedly to have the wallet address made known to the "staff" and in turn: the user will receive several times more Ethereum back.

It's clearly still roping in people and is highly prevelant. I'm shocked that Twitter's staff hasn't taken much evasive action. These spam/scam accounts keep springing up left, and right with no end in sight.

[ironjunkie]

It is actually quite sophisticated, the wallets I looked at even simulated the transactions that are sent back with 10* the original amount (to other wallets owned by the scammers).

[malikNF]

What's even more absurd is how much funds in ETH are there in these accounts.

For instance I saw one scam post advertise this address a day or two ago, https://etherscan.io/address/0x7DB9656FC8435F765DF5748E32Bf3...

~15k USD worth funds scammed out of people. Not entirely sure if I find this funny or depressing.

[siruncledrew]

Some of these scammers are using other wallets they own to send money to themselves to make it appear more "legit" to unsuspecting people. It's pretty terrible that as soon as a scam wallet is identified, another one just pops right up.

This is why Vitalik changed his name to "Vitaliak "Not Giving Away ETH" Buterin".

[detritus]

I'm ashamed to admit the first one of these I saw ('Musk' celebrating a launch last year) I was totally credulous of and forwarded it on to a couple of ETH-owning friends who quickly put me in my place (..and subsequently disavowed friendship :)..). I spent the next 24 hours on ETH-tracking sites watching as these bastards raked in nearly $80,000, from that one scam alone.

In my defence, I don't use Twitter much, and I mistook the value of ETH 'Musk' was asking for at around $20 rather than $200+ - had it been my own money, I would've been far more eagle-eyed and cautious.

Still, I was amazed/horrified at the gall and success of these people.

I never cease to be surprised at how unremorsefully sociopathic some people can be when it comes to getting their hands on other people's money.

[moneytide1]

Sure they may get away with it.

But the curse is that even if no one catches them: They'll always know that they did it.

Karma will take its toll.