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Cricket South Africa (CSA) has been shaken by a scam on Twitter, inadvertently offering a false Bitcoin lottery to its followers, Indian local news report.
Twitter CSA compromised by Bitcoin Scammers
The official Twitter account of the organization, with over 1 million followers, was compromised overnight. This led to numerous tweets attempting to sell a Bitcoin (BTC) lottery scam to CSA followers. The CSA informed the cricket community of its involuntary participation in the scheme at the start of today.
The tweet said that CSA had signed a partnership with the Luno cryptographic portfolio, in which users could win 20 BTC ($ 70,900). The now deleted tweet included a Bitcoin address, where participants were invited to send Bitcoins to participate. The scam has been active for about five hours.
And … we're back!
We apologize to all of our followers on Twitter who have been hit by the hack at night. We are again in control and ready to bring you what promises to be an even more eventful event for Day 4 of Cricket.
Thanks to our friends al @ICC for your help this morning. pic.twitter.com/9z6KSBvB94– Cricket South Africa (@OfficialCSA) January 14, 2019
Luno denied the news separately, claiming that he had no partnership in place with the CSA for the token business. "We distance ourselves from this tweet that is going around," said the company. CSA also used a tweet to apologize to its followers who were hit by the night hack.
Cricket South Africa is not the first
Last year, numerous Twitter accounts were hacked to impersonate Elon Musk, one of whom reported stealing up to $ 170,000. The scammers posed as Tesla's CEO after having compromised the verified accounts and modified the names of the profiles and images to match them with those of Elon Musk.
Some of the accounts have sent tweets, presumably from Tesla's honcho. Every tweet has the photo of Musk, who promised to give BTC to the scam participants. The founder of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, also had his fair share of Twitter impersonators.
His image is often used by scammers to promote the false Litecoin tributes. More impostors have invaded Twitter with compromised accounts, predating unsuspecting victims.
The intrigues promised users that they would send LTC once the victim sent Crypto to their mobile wallet. In the process, many Twitter users lost their coins and did not get anything back.
Google has also found itself the subject of a cryptographic scam based on Twitter. The official G Suite account has recently been compromised to facilitate a fake encrypted giveaway, misleading thousands of followers through fraudulent tweets.
The scammers have sent tweets to promote free fraud with Bitcoin, causing users to believe that G Suite accepts cryptographic payments. The message, which disappeared a few minutes after it emerged, came on the heels of a Target giveaway scam.
Bitcoin scams have become quite frequent and problematic for users and for Twitter as a platform. The social media network said it is improving its methods to manage cryptocurrency scams, but they persist nonetheless.
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