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Elon Musk impersonators dupe newbie investors, make bank as crypto scammers’ profits surge

Bishop eL by Bishop eL
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Scammers are imitating Elon Musk and other noticeable crypto figures to dupe naive investors out of their coins at a sped-up rate.
Elon Musk impersonators dupe newbie investors, make bank as crypto scammers' profits surge

The United States Federal Trade Commission has discovered that crypto scammers’ benefits spiked over the most recent two months, noticing a surge in fake impersonators acting like conspicuous figures related to computerized resources, like Elon Musk.

The discoveries report that cryptocurrency investment scams rose forcefully in October 2020 as the effects of the Covid pandemic and lockdown developed, with almost 7,000 individuals revealing misfortunes of more than $80 million to advanced resource tricks over the half-year that followed.

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The FTC’s Consumer Sentinel notes many of the thefts arose from giveaway scams where con artists pose as celebrities or crypto influencers and falsely promise to multiply cryptocurrency deposits sent to their wallet. More than $2 million in digital assets were to Elon Musk impersonators over the past six months.

The data shows an overall increase in losses to crypto scams by roughly twelve times year-over-year. The median loss reported by victims has also spiked nearly 1,000% to $1,900 in 12 months.

On May 11, Business Insider reported that fraudsters took advantage of the Tesla CEO’s appearance on the Saturday Night Live show on May 8 to pocket $5 million worth of DOGE.

The report asserts scammers set up fraudulent live streams on YouTube targeting viewers searching for “Elon Musk SNL.” These bogus broadcasts promoted links to spurious websites that viewers could purportedly visit to receive Dogecoin, with one claiming: “Elon Musk has devoted 500,000,000 DOGE to be distributed to all DOGE holders. Anybody can get some, just visit the website.”

Victims were asked to transfer DOGE to a fake address to double their holdings. As of Sunday, May 9, the FTC identified scam addresses that had received about 9.7 million Dogecoin worth $5 million.

The FTC noted that individuals aged 20-to-49 are five times more likely than older age groups to report losing money in a cryptocurrency investment scam. Those in their 20s and 30s lost more money to investment scams than any other form of fraud over the six months, with more than half of their investment scam losses in crypto assets.

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