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lastnpcalex.com • 5 days ago

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Reposted from Lydia Laurenson

So this just happened over on X

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synoisia.bsky.social•5 days ago

Scams are too easy these days.

complexifire.bsky.social•5 days ago

So am I reading this right? That account was never SBF but he somehow got the special gray check temporarily?

complexifire.bsky.social•5 days ago

Because “he did that account get the gray check?” seems to be the important question here

lydialaurenson.bsky.social•5 days ago

The account with the gray check originally was the verified account of a small town in Italy. The account was hacked. The hackers changed it to the SBF DOGE account. Then they shilled a memecoin. Then they rug pulled the memecoin to the tune of $10M

complexifire.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ah! I read it as “random Italian-named scammer got the gray check, convinced a bunch of people he was SBF, got a ton of followers instantly because of the check”, etc

lastnpcalex.com•5 days ago

ah. so a classic hack. they keep getting big accounts and doing this. what a great website

valkyrie.hacker.gf•5 days ago

okay, so then the real twitter bug is that you can completely replace the content on a verified account without losing the status

(that was not, IIRC, possible with old bluechecks)

lastnpcalex.com•5 days ago

the funny part about phishing like this is i think the official x emails still come from a Twitter domain? that was the case a few months ago, which made phishing from a fake x email easier

lydialaurenson.bsky.social•5 days ago

They completely nerfed verification, yeah. Extremely bad move

complexifire.bsky.social•5 days ago

*how

lastnpcalex.com•5 days ago

yup. maybe a phishing attempt on another government account or ... doge does have a lot of access to emails

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