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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Giving Elon Musk a follow on Twitter? You might be shortlisted by scammers looking to defraud Elon's newest followers.New Musk followers are being added to a "Deal of the Year" list on Twitter that lures them into depositing small crypto amounts into the attackers' wallet with the false promise of receiving up to 5000 Bitcoin in return.Fake Elon: '1000 new followers' get '5000 BTC'Twitter accounts following Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX and related accounts are being targeted in a crypto giveaway scam dubbed 'Freedom Giveaway,' BleepingComputer has discovered.I gave @elonmusk a follow today to keep up to date with Twitter news. Within a few hours of doing so, I received this mysterious notification:Suspicious notification targeting new Elon Musk followers (BleepingComputer)A pseudonymous account with Twitter logo set as its profile pic had added me to a Twitter list called 'Deal of the Year.'For most Twitter accounts, including Musk's, the list of their followers is public and can be monitored by anyone including bots and threat actors for nefarious purposes. On mobile, this is how the 'Deal of the Year' list looks like:Twitter 'Deal of the Year' list is a scam (BleepingComputer)As of today, the list has 155 members added by its admin (the threat actor), and these accounts when reviewed by BleepingComputer were seen following Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX and related organizations on Twitter.Notice the header image at the top.The banner appears to be an actual tweet from Elon Musk's official account promising free crypto to "1000 new followers" chosen randomly.That is until you notice the real user name behind the scam account i.e., '@CroweYoshiko' placed right beneath the list name, 'Deal of the Year' with its profile pic (Twitter logo) lending some credibility to it.The advertised URL, freedomgiveaway.net is also convincing, given Mr. Musk is a self-described free speech absolutist, frequently
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