Elon Musk Complains About Crypto Money Scams That Are Thrived On Twitter, Even Scammers Using His Name

Elon Musk complains about crypto scammer accounts on Twitter. (Antara)

JAKARTA – Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk has complained about crypto money spam accounts that are mushrooming on Twitter social media. A number of crypto money scams carried out by a number of Twitter accounts in his name, have made the richest man on Earth hot.

Musk said this to Dogecoin founder Billy Markus in a comment on Twitter. Previously, it was Mark who uploaded a Twitter post containing screenshots of a fraudulent giveaway from an account using Elon Musk's name, and even his profile photo was the same as Musk's account.

The billionaire revealed that Twitter has been struggling to fix the problem for a long time, but spam accounts and crypto scams are still circulating to get the job done.

hey @TwitterSupport can you do something about this crap? everyone on crypto twitter is getting spam added to these obvious scam lists en masse and it’s super irritating for everyone

thanks pic.twitter.com/ddQznN6OKH

— Shibetoshi Nakamoto (@BillyM2k) February 16, 2022

Elon Musk himself is noted to have clashed with crypto money scammers. In 2018, Musk asked Twitter to keep an eye on spambots on behalf of Ethereum. A computer scientist and essayist Paul Graham commented on the problem. He said it may be too difficult for Twitter to detect spam.

Meanwhile, last October, Musk made fun of scammers who tweeted about Dogecoin. Crypto money scams carried out by fake accounts promise to double the number of coins from the previous amount, on the condition that the potential victim must first send money to them. But the billionaire hit back at the scammers by offering deals that hurt the scammers.

In addition, in July 2020, a number of influential names such as Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, including Elon Musk, and other well-known figures were used for Bitcoin fraud.

According to data published by the Federal Trade Commission last year, crypto scammers impersonating Elon Musk's Twitter account managed to earn around $2 million. For your information, Twitter is not the only social media that has had to fight against crypto scams.

Scammer accounts impersonating Musk are also known to carry out their actions on Facebook and Instagram. The scammer even created a YouTube channel to convince his victims by holding a live streaming event with the lure of Bitcoin prizes accompanied by pictures of Elon Musk.