A Bitcoin (BTC) investor fell into the “gift” trap of a supposedly “verified” account on Twitter. The investor sent 1 Bitcoin to the account in question with great promises.
Whale Alert As reported by a Bitcoin investor, a “look-a-like” Twitter account gave an address in hopes of getting more. 1.03 Bitcoin sent. The investor, who did not receive any return from the account in question after the transaction, realized that he was a victim of fraud, albeit late. To the address of the scammer so far $806,000 Bitcoin sent has been detected.
The working logic of fraudsters can be explained very simply. Scammers using people’s instincts to make quick money “send me 1 i will send you 2 in returnThey attract investors to their networks with the promise of ”. However, due to the decentralized nature of blockchain, these amounts, which investors send to an address they do not know, it is not possible to save.
Recently, many scammers are trying to take advantage of a momentary gap by using close imitations of the accounts of famous names in order to lure investors into their trap. about this before Binance CEO CZof and Elon MuskHe also had serious reproaches. Both popular billionaires mentioned that there are more fraudulent bot accounts than real users under the posts.
However, in the past few days chainalysis Although we are only halfway there, according to the data published by October, the month of October is about crypto hacking attacks. most expensive month of the year was chosen. The data in question is the total value of the attacks in October. 718 million dollars proved to be achieved.