Crypto scammers unmasked: How to easily discover a scammer? (Just for your enjoyment)
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Boredom made me go through my Twitter profile and read interesting stuff online. I read a CNN story about the actor Jeremy Renner being in a “critical but stable” condition after an accident. So, curiosity took me to the comment section and I started reading what people have to say about this obviously contradictory statement. How can someone be in a critical state but also be stable at the same time?
Well, I saw a weird comment the likes of which I’d seen before. It was a person thanking an “account manager” and “foreign exchange trader” for helping them earn $3,850 in a few days. I have read these comments before on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook. The person was obviously helping the scammer gain viewership online. But I decided to spend a few minutes unmasking this piece of filth and discover whose personality he was using to scam people on Twitter.
This guy was using the persona of two people: a musical artist named Huxley Morris and a Spanish politician named César Luena. The first part was easy to discover with a simple Google search. The second part required me to reverse search the pictures this person was using to promote his Twitter profile. It was fun and I easily found at least three pictures of that guy named Luena he was using to pretend to be a cryptocurrency wunderkind. Let’s see how he presents himself online (and I’m using “he” because the scammer is using a male avatar):
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Good Lord! It’s the profile of a newbie scammer who doesn’t know how to present himself properly. This guy made this account in April 2021 and has 7,529 tweets. Moreover, he has 5,241 followers and is following 2,048 people. His tweets get average views in 40s and 60s. It further ensured me that I was looking at an amateur scammer’s profile. So, I decided to reverse search some of the pictures uploaded by this guy.
You can notice obvious spelling mistakes in this person’s tweet. Now, reverse searching the image led me to another website where the picture of the Spanish politician Luena was posted with some content is Espanol. It was obvious that the scammer was massively stealing the persona of this random politician and using them to portray himself as an account manager. Bitch can’t even manage a fake Twitter profile! You can see how he edited the picture with the caption “BREAKING NEWS” to hide Luena’s name on the bottom left. Also, the picture is from December 2022 so the scammer is using recent images of the Spanish politician to fool people. Though, to be honest, he’s hardly fooling anyone!
You can also notice how he constantly uses hashtags such as #bitcon, #profit, and #investment in his tweets. I don’t know what’s the purpose of this practice. I mean I know why people use hashtags but you’re obviously running a fake account, man. I don’t like to report people on Twitter now because it’s a waste of time. You can audit this person’s account for bots and I’m pretty sure most of his followers are not real humans. Also, I’ve shared the Wikipedia page of the actual Luena, not this scammer pretending to be a Spanish-politician-turned-American-cryptocurrency-expert. I’m pretty sure this guy’s account will stay active unless someone decides to report him and ban him from Twitter.
How to spot a crypto scammer easily?
In 2021, 95,000 people lost their money to social media scammers, the FTC reports. It’s important to be careful when communicating with people online as there’s a big chance they aren’t even real. They may be scammers trying to pretend to be somoene else and stealing a Spanich socialist political worker’s photos to fool you. Here are five easy ways you can spot a scammer on social media:
- They have screenshots of people thanking them via Whatsapp.
- They promise you thousands of dollars in a single day (something impossible to attain legally).
- They have hundreds of followers but hardly anyone comments on their posts (indicating the presence of bots).
- Scammers make lots of spelling mistakes and sometimes their posts don’t make sense (Pakistanis, am I right?)
- You usually find them when someone thanks them under an unrelated Facebook post (like why are you thanking someone so randomly?).
