Elon Musk's Twitter Targeted: Beware of the $25 Million Crypto Scam
After 10 months of Elon Musk’s rule, crypto scams on X (formerly Twitter) are still thriving. One of the platform’s latest, more prolific scams came in the form of a fake ‘GBTC’ token giveaway. Scammers feigned associati...
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One of the platform’s latest, more prolific scams came in the form of a fake ‘GBTC’ token giveaway. Scammers feigned association with the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust – the world’s largest Bitcoin fund – repurposing its GBTC ticker for the purported $25 million token distribution. ...
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