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Elon Musk there is only one. Twitter blocks accounts with entrepreneur name to fight fraud
The owner of Tesla and SpaceX is very active on the social network Twitter, becoming a target of excellence for several schemes and fraud related to cryptomoedas. Also in February, the billionaire "distributed" 5,000 Ethereum to celebrate the launch of another Falcon 9. This is just another scheme that uses its "profile", because Twitter allows users to change the name that is visible in their accounts, leading to the most distracted or less experienced in the social network to deception.To counter fraud, Twitter will automatically lock unverified accounts whose name is changed to Elon Musk. To re-unblock them, the accounts must be associated with a phone number and pass a "CAPTCHA" security test.According to The Verge, the social network has introduced this measure as a test, as part of an effort to combat spam and malicious activity on the platform, but does not say whether other famous personalities, potential easy targets for schemes, are equally protected.
The popularity of digital currencies and the low knowledge of how to get them make schemes on social networks increase, some of them even quite sophisticated, as Elon Musk himself admitted. Another person constantly "imitated" in cryptomedical schemes is the creator of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, who ended up adding the "Not giving away ETH" message to the name of his Twitter account because of the numerous scams associated with him.
Although Twitter began in March to combat such schemes, the level of sophistication has increased. Some fraudulent messages come only in response messages, not in "posts" created from scratch, which are eventually confused by the media, triggering the typical "fake news" process. In June Twitter acquired Smyte, a specialist in online security issues, including spam, to bolster the fight against fraud on its platform.



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