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Anyone who's made the mistake of wading into the unfiltered cesspool of an Elon Musk tweet's replies will have noticed how bad the crypto-currency scams have become in the last months. Any time Elon Musk tweets, a thousand dummy accounts with identical display names and similar-sounding handles pop up in the mentions, offering to give away an alt-coin crypto-currency like Ethereum. Like any good scam, there's a catch: You have to send a trivial amount of a coin to a wallet to sign up, but taken in totality, those trivial amounts add up to some real income, all for one tweet with a scam account.
It seems like a simple problem to solve, but given Twitter's historical difficulty with enforcing its own terms and conditions (y'know, like banning actual Nazis), it's not a surprise that the crypto scam has been running rampant for months. But for once, it seems like Twitter is doing something simple to fix an obvious problem.
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Twitter is locking any account named ‘Elon Musk’ because crypto-currency scams are out of control originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 22:00:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Anyone who's made the mistake of wading into the unfiltered cesspool of an Elon Musk tweet's replies will have noticed how bad the crypto-currency scams have become in the last months. Any time Elon Musk tweets, a thousand dummy accounts with identical display names and similar-sounding handles pop up in the mentions, offering to give away an alt-coin crypto-currency like Ethereum. Like any good scam, there's a catch: You have to send a trivial amount of a coin to a wallet to sign up, but taken in totality, those trivial amounts add up to some real income, all for one tweet with a scam account.
It seems like a simple problem to solve, but given Twitter's historical difficulty with enforcing its own terms and conditions (y'know, like banning actual Nazis), it's not a surprise that the crypto scam has been running rampant for months. But for once, it seems like Twitter is doing something simple to fix an obvious problem.
Continue reading...
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Twitter is locking any account named ‘Elon Musk’ because crypto-currency scams are out of control originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 25 Jul 2018 at 22:00:13 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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