Deception in the guise of Bitcoin is spreading. The most recent and most extensive case is through hacking of a number of famous celebrity Twitter accounts on Wednesday, July 15, 2020. Hackers offer a Bitcoin giveaway from those accounts. So, what are some ways to protect yourself from this mode of crime?
The perpetrators may launch social-based attacks (social engineering) against Twitter employees. Hackers access Twitter's internal systems and devices, and thus successfully tweet the Bitcoin giveaway.
For example the Kanye West account which was also hacked. The famous US musician is "tweeting" he will duplicate the Bitcoin sent to his Bitcoin address. With common logic, it is unlikely that anyone would give free money in the form of Bitcoin, without any veiled intentions.
No one will give you free money, not even Bill Gates. If it sounds too sweet, then it's certainly not true, especially in cyberspace.
Yes, there were lots of examples like these ones in 2017-2018, when there were so many airdrops, and ICOs, and in those amount of enormous offers the bounty hunters might be lost and only logic and common sense prevented lots of people from frauds of such kind. Very often such celebrities' accounts even are not hacked, but they just differ on one letter or symbol from the original account. I met some weeks ago 4 accounts of TrustWallet in Twitter like that, they were fake and gave some tokens via airdrop. The most important is to be very attentive and think twice before acting.