Bitcoin Scammer Used Elon Musk’s Credibility to Profit Million

Michael Bose
1 min readJun 23, 2020
Photo by Aleksi Räisä on Unsplash

What Happened

According to sources, Elon’s name was misused to profit $2 million dollars using Youtube as a platform to host bitcoin giveaway campaign. The streams lured in unsuspecting users as it were to giveaway 5000 BTC and were requested to send money to them to “verify” bitcoin address. These accounts resembled similar names to verified accounts but…

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