Re: [2018-11-06] Posing as Elon Musk, hacker nets about $180,000 worth of bitcoin
Lol. That is hillarious. Sounds legit.
How can people believe in this kind of scheme? if someone did that kind of scheme then that person would be running a ponzi scheme, and I doubt any celebrity or anyone famous would do such a thing. Then I ask the same question again: why the hell do people fall into scams like these? The only answer that comes in my head is: greed
Greed and stupidity. As the phrase goes - a fool and his money are easily parted. There's also another one - if something sounds to good to be true then it probably is. It's often usually easier to scam the greedy as they get excited over the prospect of free money and critical thinking goes out of the window along with their money. I really don't have any sympathy for these people as this is blatantly a scam and I only hope they learned their lesson from this.
If you ask me, Twitter should be held accountable for this. I mean if it's really that easy to manipulate a blue-ticked account than its about time they think about their security. Once I saw a similar thing happening on Facebook, I reported that account and I haven't seen something like this again on facebook at least. I believe Facebook manually reviews a name change request of the account and you have to re-verify your Identity afterwards. It's about time these platforms should be held accountable too. They get away too often if you ask me. Yeah you can argue people are dumb, greedy whatever. But if you tell me that I can change a blue-tick account to impersonate a celebrity and get away with it than I think people should really think about what kind of pathetic platform they are on.
The only people who should be held accountable are the fools who lost their money. Just because someone is a celebrity or 'verified' doesn't mean you should give them your money, especially online. These are the types of people who would fall for Nigerian lottery scams because the email came from 'prince'. I don't think gmal or hotmail should be responsible for those who fall victim to those scams either.