Billionaire entrepreneur and engineer Elon Musk has recently called attention to scam bots that impersonate famous people on Twitter to steal Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies from their victims.
Ethereum's co-founder Vitalik Buterin subsequently reacted to Musk's tweet, suggesting on July 9 that CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey should take measures to ameliorate the situation.
In his tweet, the world-famous founder of Tesla Motors and SpaceX drew attention to crypto scammers on Twitter.
"I want to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz".
Vitalik Buterin, who earlier added "Not giving away ETH" to his Twitter handle to combat his own impersonators, asked Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, to do something about the situation.
In February 2018, Elon Musk revealed that he "Literally own[ed] zero cryptocurrency," in an apparent attempt to warn his followers not to interact with fake "Musks" on Twitter.
The billionaire also noted that he has reported the issue to Dorsey multiple times to no avail.
Earlier this year, Cointelegraph reported about multiple scam accounts on Twitter that tried to pose as the founder of Litecoin Charlie Lee and used fake giveaways of the cryptocurrency to attract their victims.
'Mad Skillz': Elon Musk Is Impressed by Ethereum Scam Bots on Twitter
Published on Jul 10, 2018
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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