Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.
The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.
Crypto being used for scams? Say it ain’t so!
Crypto IS the scam.
Nope, ~1% if crypto is illegal use. The other 99% is perfectly above board. Cryptocurrency IS currency and so will be used for illegal activity just like every other currency
Sure, not like 72 billion has been used in scams or anything.
“Overall, the share of all cryptocurrency activity associated with illicit activity has risen for the first time since 2019, from 0.12% in 2021 to 0.24% in 2022. [2]”
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2023-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
Biggest scams are done in USD. The big part of not falling for a scam is doing your due diligence and people are adults and should be treated as such.
Biggest scams are done in USD.
That’s because USD is widely used.
Crypto isn’t widely used and it still has scams worth millions. Cryptwats are 🤡🤡🤡
At most a couple thousand. Ive been using crypto for ~10 years now and by doing my homework and not jumping on hype trains have not been scammed.
I haven’t yet sent my life savings to a Nigerian prince, so there are no scams.
Scams absolutely exist, but in most cases they are easily identified or obvious hype trains
You haven’t done your research it seems.
Clearly, you are wearing rose tinted glasses.
No, literally 72.317 billion at this point.
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
It all gets neatly documented.
I wasn’t measuring in fiat when I said a couple of thousand. however, i was also using inaccurate numbers so my fault. Using those numbers 73000000000/50000 = 1460000
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin
You’ve admitted that you need to be cautious when using crypto because you buy the wrong one and you loose everything.
That little fact alone makes it fucking useless to the average person. FTX conned lots of people, celsius.
Seriously you’re just pissing in the wind and ya wonder why you’re getting wet
STOP PISSING IN THE FUCKING WIND!
WE DON’T CARE!Buy the real ones, bitcoin, ethereum, monero. Second tire like litecoin are okay, but not as good. Stablecoins are not real crypto since they are managed by companies and can be revoked or frozen.
What is the point of cryptocurrency if someone like you has to tell other people which ones are the good ones?
In my view, the point is that everything will be tried, and lots will fail. But some will succeed, and those will become the things people go to. Another point is that most cryptocurrencies are either deflationary or inflationary, but controlled very strictly by code, and therefore runaway inflation will not happen. So there will be no more million dollars in Bobway bills, or Venice Waylas, or Argentina’s, or whatever, with hundreds and thousands of percent of inflation per year. Separation of money and state is something we should strive for because the state will no longer be able to fund endless wars and prosecution against innocent people. The way they do it now is through inflation, since taxation is not popular.
*billions
Lol, isn’t “cryptocurrency scam” a little repetitive?
Nope, most crypto use is legit. ~1% is illegal and such. Throwing the baby out with the bath water.
It’s like Chai Tea
To be fair, it makes sense for chai tea to be made explicit from unspiced black tea while still letting people unfamiliar with it know that it’s tea. Cryptocurrency not so much.
The fact that people are still saying things like this about crypto—even after ETF approval—is proof that it’s still early. By the time the average person realizes what’s been going on with Bitcoin, it’ll be too late for you.
I’ve already tripled my initial investment from a year ago, and we’re just only getting started.
I can’t tell whether you’re a real crypto person or not. Real crypto people don’t believe in ETFs because you’re not holding your own keys. So it sounds like you are just in it to make more fiat, which is bullshit. But I could be wrong about you.
Sure
Not like we still get daily updates on here: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
I don’t care about the environment because line go up
FIFY
Then invest in ETH instead. It uses proof of stake instead of proof of work.
You see no problem with a proof of stake ‘’‘currency’‘’?
You are proof that the only people interested in crypto do it to try and become rich.
That user only represents some of crypto. There are others like myself who are not in it to get rich, but to maintain sovereignty in a surveillance state and dystopian world such as we are heading for.
Then you’re in trouble.
You can easily be watched by police when you’re using cryptocurrency, so an entire surveillance state should have no problem.
Not all blockchains are public.
Well obviously. Why bother elsewise?
Every celebrity/rich has a foundation. And they make you believe that they do it to help the poor.
He had a foundation for helping people with addiction issues. By all accounts he was very committed and proud and it helped a lot of people but you continue making generalisations and insensitive suggestions.
Celebrities and rich people are crapitalistic garbage. No? 😒
Dispute ANY of this:
Could I be receiving anymore bitcoin??
Why isn’t his account archive?
It’s musk running the scam.
They probably fired the people responsible for doing that
Musk
let’s just connect everyone’s computers so they can talk to each other, it will be cool
