TECH - Caution: Elon Musk's X Plagued By Crypto Scammers Exploiting Replies For Fake Giveaways | Benzinga
Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, has a seemingly never-ending cryptocurrency spam problem. Now, one of the modes being used by these cryptocurrency scammers has been revealed.
What Happened: Cryptocurrency scammers are abusing a loophole in the way X surfaces posts by decoding links that users click on, according to a report by Bleeping Computer.
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Essentially, these scammers are trying to impersonate high-profile, verified accounts with a simple trick – they are manipulating the URLs to masquerade them ...