If you’re on Twitter and you change your unverified account’s display name to Elon Musk, the social media platform will lock you out. According to numerous reports, this is happening because scammers posing as the Tesla CEO have been attempting to trick people into sending them cryptocurrency. An account with “Elon Musk” in the display name and a photo of him could reply to one of the real Musk’s tweets to make it look like a threaded reply. “The tweets often take the same formulation: users are offered a rare chance to get in on the ground floor of a new type of blockchain technology, and all they have to do to get rich quick is fork over some cash in exchange for tokens of a new cryptocurrency they’ve never heard of,” said The Verge.

Source: Huffington Post July 30, 2018 15:56 UTC