Late Actor Matthew Perry's Twitter Hacked: Fake Charity Plea Targets Fans with Cryptocurrency Scam
bitdefender.com
Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry's Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.
The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.
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Lol, isn't "cryptocurrency scam" a little repetitive?
It's like Chai Tea
To be fair, it makes sense for chai tea to be made explicit from unspiced black tea while still letting people unfamiliar with it know that it's tea. Cryptocurrency not so much.
I would like to know more
About chai? It's got lovely Indian spices and works very well as a latte.
Nope, most crypto use is legit. ~1% is illegal and such. Throwing the baby out with the bath water.
It's a ponze scheme. It always was. It may have found a niche, unregulated market, but that doesn't make it any less of a ponze scheme
It was specifically designed to be a currency and that's what people are using it for. So I guess currencies can be Ponzi schemes. The dollar sure is one.
Tell me you don't know what a ponze scheme is without telling me you don't know what a ponze scheme is.
lol at you calling bitcoin a Ponzi scheme and then saying fiat isn’t a Ponzi scheme. How ironic
Let me make sure I know my differences between a Ponzi scheme and a pyramid scheme. Because I may well be getting them confused. They sound very similar. Apparently Ponzi schemes are investing money while pyramid schemes are recruiting and making payments like a service. So yes. Money is a Ponzi scheme.
You're making an inexplicable leap of logic that still has me thinking you have no idea what you're talking about. Though I'm willing to believe you think you know what you're talking about.
So what is money ultimately? It's an abstraction that we exchange with one another as a common denominator for trades instead of me trading you 16.125 cows for a car. Therefore, with nobody to use it, a money is worthless. And so, to get people to use your money, they have to invest in it. They're by making all money a Ponzi scheme. If they already have a money, then they are investing their money for your money. And if they don't already have a money in existence, then they are investing time for your money.
Except we're not trying to convince people to buy in to money so that we can cash out. Money doesn't only increase in value by getting more people to buy in to it. I'll grant you the defined value of a dollar is nebulous, but it's not even remotely a ponzi scheme. Where crypto is, definitionally, a ponzi scheme. It sounds like you bought in to it, you probably want to cash out before you lose any more.
Meanwhile the feds continue to print money therefore devaluing it. Meanwhile you’ve been convinced that the best way to get paid is through fiat.
You haven’t the slightest clue about anything.
All currency is made up. But people who aren't fucking crazy at least trust the dollar. No one not invested in crypto already trusts it for shit
You’re talking straight out of your ass
Oh no, exactly the opposite. I want to put more in because I use it as a currency. In fact, I just bought my groceries with it today. I also pay for my insurance, cell phone bill, and several other bills every single month with it, and have been doing so for over a year now. I use it how it was meant to be used.
The fact that people are still saying things like this about crypto—even after ETF approval—is proof that it's still early. By the time the average person realizes what's been going on with Bitcoin, it'll be too late for you.
I've already tripled my initial investment from a year ago, and we're just only getting started.
FIFY
Then invest in ETH instead. It uses proof of stake instead of proof of work.
You are proof that the only people interested in crypto do it to try and become rich.
That user only represents some of crypto. There are others like myself who are not in it to get rich, but to maintain sovereignty in a surveillance state and dystopian world such as we are heading for.
Then you're in trouble.
You can easily be watched by police when you're using cryptocurrency, so an entire surveillance state should have no problem.
https://time.com/6239364/crypto-criminals-andy-greenberg/
Not all blockchains are public.
Fine. Which one can people be absolutely sure a nation state can't watch them use?
They mentioned it in your article. Monero.
So because the article says so, it's definitely the case?
Fair point, I did my own research and came to the same conclusion and have been active in the Monero community. However, don't take my word for it, do the reading yourself, and I think you will come to the same conclusion. The article mentioned zcash too which is not private as they are willing to change their code to stay complient with governmyth surveillance demands and therefore have no ethos. monero was just delisted from binance a few days ago because the community refused to comply with demands to hurt user privacy. This IMO shows backbone.
Having to do this sort of research just to discover which crypto currency you can't actually know for sure that a nation state can't watch but it seems like it might not seems like crypto currency isn't the best way to guarantee anonymity compared to, say, a suitcase full of cash.
Sorry but if it is available for anyone to use its public, you can't use a blockchain currency without downloading and referencing the block chain. Something that can NOT be changed by you or I
Replace blockchain with ledger, because that is what it is. It is no more secure than using a fucking bank card.
Seriously how fucking stupid are all of you people?
Do me a favor and look up Monero Ring CT and stealth addresses. It's not totally private, but if you are one of sixteen, there is a very low chance of being identified, and the more transactions away you are, the lower the chance of being identified properly. Also, full membership proofs are in the works, which would make the possible transaction part of every other transaction on the chain up until that point. And there won't be a way to easily trace.
Edit: i did the work for you.
RingCT: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringCT.html
Stealth address: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/stealthaddress.html
Ring signatures: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/moneropedia/ringsignatures.html
You assume that crypto is some "honest" and "for the people" currency system because its all documented in the blockchain, when in reality it is gamed by big banks, investors and scammers just like other financial tool where a lot of money is involved and no or insufficiant regulations are in place. If Elon tweets "you can no longer buy tesla withy bitcoin", your savings will loose a lot of value over night.
Next you're probably going to claim people who go to work just do it for the money.
Well obviously. Why bother elsewise?
You see no problem with a proof of stake '''currency'''?
None whatsoever. I'm staking ETH right now. It's free money.
Lol ok.
So let's create a shit ton of ewaste destroying SSD's?
Unregistered security token.
Sure
Not like we still get daily updates on here: https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
Just so you know, one of the most common tactics in a scam is to convince the target that they must "act fast or the opportunity will be over!"
I can't tell whether you're a real crypto person or not. Real crypto people don't believe in ETFs because you're not holding your own keys. So it sounds like you are just in it to make more fiat, which is bullshit. But I could be wrong about you.
That's why I don't buy ETFs. Never said I did. Keep it all in a hardware wallet, only leaving enough on an exchange for day-to-day transactions.
You may need to hold any crypto at all on an exchange and not in a wallet that you control the keys to?