Last night, Kenyan time, coordinated posts appeared on some prominent accounts announcing Bitcoins for fans, followers etc.It was a scam.
The Twitter accounts of Microsoft Co founder Bill Gates, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Online retail giant Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, US Rapper and Presidential candidate Kanye West, Uber, Apple and other high profile accounts were hacked by Bitcoin scammers.
As at 12:17 am, 5,314 people had fallen for the scam, and sent these hackers $7.8M USD (Sh800 million).
Here is what the hackers posted.
Elon Musk's, Bill Gates' and Kanye West's Twitter accounts hacked.
5,314 people have fallen for the scam already, and sent these hackers $7.8M USD thus far.
Here is the hacker info ???? pic.twitter.com/eal5oRscyE
— living king (@ToyosiAG) July 15, 2020
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