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The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud

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  1. IfaqYurmama
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    As with all scams, the common sense and classic "If it's too good to be true, it's likely not true" applies here too, though of course that means this will hit the greediest or neediest of victims...

    As with all scams, the common sense and classic "If it's too good to be true, it's likely not true" applies here too, though of course that means this will hit the greediest or neediest of victims which are most gullible to fall for them.

    Twitter really has to get on top of these scams, it's been getting out of hand in the last months. Cryptocurrency twitter accounts are most heavily affected. Here is a screenshot from a while back. Every tweet looks like this unfortunately.

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  2. JustABanana
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    Honestly it's not that big of a deal. Those kinds of scams happen all of the time on YouTube... like obviously it's bad that people get scammed sand I think it's necesary to keep people informed...

    Honestly it's not that big of a deal. Those kinds of scams happen all of the time on YouTube... like obviously it's bad that people get scammed sand I think it's necesary to keep people informed but I don't think this is that interesting

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