{"id":112237,"date":"2019-08-22T01:24:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=112237"},"modified":"2019-08-22T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T08:28:12","slug":"crypto-twitter-scams-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/crypto-twitter-scams-vengeance\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Twitter &#8216;giveaway&#8217; scams return with a vengeance, but what&#8217;s Jack Dorsey doing about it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest wave of giveaway scams has returned to Twitter and new suckers are entering the cryptocurrency sphere. Now, every meaningful crypto celebrity has their own botnet scamarazzi.<\/p>\n<h2>The golden age of giveaway scams<\/h2>\n<p>Giveaway scams have existed for as long as crypto has been talked about on Twitter. These scams promise instant returns to those who send coins to a specific address, preying on the stupid and greedy. Obviously, these coins will never return to their rightful owners.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/ssGfv7Dchd3GXB1qiF5XsLRixp0zYsCcuTdMHnPR2sOdo_dS1zJyfx0ekGLrJcHRvmbdQOD052iNWspKquZ-UKCIeRV2o651pjttC2fZPaRxL3BIJOOAW4KkeKUAtMsbjIospOGi\" alt=\"Give money to this address and lose it forever.\" width=\"545\" height=\"341\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Send XRP to this account and instantly double your money!<\/em> Said no service, ever.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These scams saw their heyday during the bull market of late 2017. As the markets went into a froth anything crypto would yield gobs of profit. The most unqualified of charlatans were able to <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/blockchain-investors-lose-billions\/\">present any idea<\/a>, \u201con the blockchain,\u201d and turn them into multi-million-dollar ICOs.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, scams were easy to perpetrate against the legions of profit-hungry crypto noobs. It got so bad that <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\">Ethereum<\/a> co-founder <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/vitalik-buterin\">Vitalik Buterin<\/a> added \u201cnot giving away ETH\u201d to his Twitter username (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VitalikButerin\">now simplified<\/a> to \u201cnon-giver of Ether\u201d).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/wtIRT94ov4EDyMR9FMxF0YQm4XKRMNdJzf6rTPihbgeUNiUdPAX2Vth7u_vz-0hDG9ueyE0g1Z9m5nSwUBuJk1PnbpT-M25B_Loqky9a490-E998ycC0iABoCEYm6w-nCyWbJQ8X\" alt=\"Scammers get the last laugh at Buterin\" width=\"518\" height=\"525\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vitalik Buterin's rebuttal to the scamarrazi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During the bear market of 2018, these scams subsided as amateur investors were purged from the market as Bitcoin crashed from above $19,000 to sub $4,000. Incinerated weak hands meant less money from scamming people.<\/p>\n<h2>The return of the horde<\/h2>\n<p>However, the bull market has returned and with it, new blood. This fresh meat presents new profitability for this age-old scam. Once again top crypto influencers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/binance\">Binance\u2019s<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/changpeng-zhao\">Changpeng Zhao<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/litecoin\">Litecoin<\/a> creator <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/charlie-lee\/\">Charlie Lee<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/coinbase\">Coinbase<\/a> CEO <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/brian-armstrong\">Brian Armstrong<\/a> are under assault.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 493px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/onexnozXpOspaDFr96C0qxfc6Vjfex2b-7Idf9e84BNrLZYlvMm3AJQGyqi63RVMi2MYTHV93pzKFJrcwaPV1VbGH9PkWBlSCkvOW3THQ6nUK5jqWLTr6KVb12uHJotSZIGfYnD3\" alt=\"Charlie Lee's smug face attracts get-rich noobs\" width=\"493\" height=\"434\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scammer posing as <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/charlie-lee\">Charlie Lee<\/a> for a fake Airdrop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure style=\"width: 517px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/aKChM6m0dNj3c1efEVkQOi_eqKsrOEJTJS7voYRwj4uCmms3R4vbmUq3Xv3lfKiIT2xytjFrIZZrIxs-3gvAqYU_YXm7E9iJgv5YWADr7jAFZ86meBPIf_9oO9bZjllHINlcTuyA\" alt=\"Nice try, Heather.\" width=\"517\" height=\"358\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scammers attempt to mimic celebrity accounts. On closer inspect, they\u2019re obviously fake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spare no corporate account, because exchanges like <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/okex\">OKEx<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/huobi\">Huobi<\/a> are getting bombarded by unscrupulous tweets, too.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 446px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/uw5Y0Su3hXu9YFXgiI2_OqLK94nkwc4sHepumBGQ0rbbCYd9kJT29V_-Mq027A0jjKiWhghpXw72GHcWr7moERzlB4svS43GjaXw30J22k2Tn8e8vBCAFwqsnDy0t-XJHXZ4Q9JQ\" alt=\"Give me a break... Coinbase giveaway, really?\" width=\"446\" height=\"716\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scammers can photoshop images to look like real tweets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These scams leverage large botnets, collections of bogus accounts, to raise the legitimacy of the scam by interacting with the giveaway tweets. Unsophisticated users unable to differentiate between real and fake activity are fooled. Meanwhile, Twitter\u2019s algorithm is gamed, giving more visibility to the scam.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 504px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/hsXcIiiUqn7A5eu-PS3RiHnp6FzEMVyrIZbjBdUXpQMd0_9Z9ic2wiBgQdSedTO5c78MKwtOFNFi6cYWLq9Umnme7ICSr3alcxfzu1Uj6d61FD72-1p8bOTWRzHTER0irUCcuHoa\" alt=\"Why Twitter lets this happen is beyond me.\" width=\"504\" height=\"671\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Botnet used to boost fake tweets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Jack Dorsey, are you going to do something?<\/h2>\n<p>The volume of these scam tweets make notifications practically unusable for many accounts. Furthermore, these tweets fill-up the comment section of targeted accounts, burying meaningful interactions and make Twitter unusable as a way to engage with one's community.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 436px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/H8zJy8XCM0tl7r20DTPG0x4V7eDtgsB8Rkmg40AeKMerV99xDejMC8e_h7khqSHFzhpRbd3Ia9JaDrmqEFUrfgnLiRYd7ZFv160iyx-4TJboFxG8zfdFv64EdcNYBo8jL4Uyogas\" alt=\"The horde of bots is relentless\" width=\"436\" height=\"495\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CryptoSlate\u2019s notification tab chock full of spam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yet, these scams have existed for a long time, and Twitter still isn\u2019t sophisticated enough to filter out the garbage.<\/p>\n<p>To solve the issue Jack Dorsey needs to implement new methods for identifying and eliminating spam:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Increase the sensitivity of user reporting and temporarily hide tweets that get above a certain number of reports relative to impressions.<\/li>\n<li>Measure the average newness of each account and the amount of activity, assigning a \u201chumanness\u201d score to each account. Flag accounts that get too many non-human interactions.<\/li>\n<li>Flag and penalize people for changing their username to mimic those of Twitter verified accounts.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the cost of opening new Twitter accounts to increase the cost of building botnets.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Twitter has become a hub for interacting with the juggernauts in the cryptocurrency industry. It\u2019s also one of the best places to find the freshest news, not just on crypto.<\/p>\n<p>However, scam spam is a serious impediment to the user experience. Jack Dorsey, if you want to keep people tweeting, liking, and retweeting, then please do something and fix the crypto giveaway problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest wave of giveaway scams has returned to Twitter and new suckers are entering the cryptocurrency sphere. Now, every meaningful crypto celebrity has their own botnet scamarazzi. 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