You send $1,000, I send back $2,000! Only doing this for the next 30 minutes."
As of now, 121 people have sent cash totally more than 2.5BTC.
Edit: Just seen @BillGates compromised as well, same bitcoin account.
Edit 2: Elon's tweet seems to be getting removed, and then reposted again shortly after. About $40k sent so far.
Edit 3: Interesting to watch - on both accounts, tweets seem to be deleted and then reappear as pinned a few mins later.
That could have netted the attackers millions.
You will blend in perfectly because you have an alibi for why you are buying so many TSLA calls.
And when you buy an OTM put, it’s hard to predict what a good price would be exactly. How far do you think the stock would drop? With a call you could be fairly more confident it will return to a previous level.
That said, this kind of attack requires you to have a good amount of capital on hand, so you need to be a fairly independently wealthy hacker.
Golden rule is you don't steal money from rich people, only poors.
This "scam", while crude, will probably not result in any loss and it would be much harder to catch them
With Bitcoin, sure nobody knows who owns this account, but the blockchain will store every transaction this account and future accounts make, so trying to actually use the Bitcoin is a fair amount harder.
What is going on that Twitter didn't get them locked ASAP?
Also all of Apple's tweets deleted, and now posting the bitcoin thing as well: https://twitter.com/Apple/status/1283506278707408900
I don't think Twitter itself knows yet.
Fool and his money are soon parted.
I doubt someone could individually hack all these accounts.
It's more like 1.3BTC by looking up the address on their website.
https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl...
Edit: I stand corrected. Holy crap!
Elon Musk @elonmusk·38s
I am giving back to my community due to Covid-19!
All Bitcoin sent to my address below will be sent back doubled. If you send $1,000, I will send back $2,000!
bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh
Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy.
EDIT: Someone already did:
https://bitref.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wl...
Bezos “was maxing out at 50MM”!!
https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1283503731682811907
(Now gone @ 3:32p Pacific)