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No way, it's way too widepread and would be shut down by now.

Elon Musk, Barack Obama and Wiz Khalifa just tweeted the scam again this very minute, more than an hour since it started. This is backend access, Twitter can't figure out how to shut it down.



They could have shut these bitcoin giveaway scams down with a single regex a year ago when they first showed up. They let them go and this is the price they will pay. Let's see if someone is going to sue Twitter because 'verified' to be Bill Gates is meaningless now.


This is much, much worse than a typical Bitcoin scam.


It has the same textual footprint. These tweets should be quarantined automatically until expressly checked by a human being.




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