The names of other celebrities have also been used in the past.Īnother key difference to look for is that although the account title may be "Elon Musk," the account username, which is marked by the symbol, will often be completely different. Scammers may have an account name that looks similar to Elon Musk's, except there will be small differences such as letters that have underscores and accents from different keyboard languages, or odd spacing between them. Other scams are also present on other platforms such as YouTube.
The scammer's method is one that is sometimes used in the reply section of Elon Musk's tweets. I woke her up and told her that I'd made a big mistake, a really big mistake." He said: "I went upstairs and sat on the edge of the bed to tell my wife. Sebastian waited as the timer went down, but never received any money back. He said: "I thought, this is definitely real, so I sent 10 Bitcoin." Sebastian told the BBC they had been persuaded by the blue check mark next to the scammer's name. They had posted a link to an event that would allegedly involve users sending Bitcoin over to a team at Elon Musk's electric car firm Tesla, and the team would then respond by sending double that amount back. The scammer posed as Musk, used a similar account title, and even had a blue check mark that Twitter uses to verify users. The user, who spoke to the BBC under the pseudonym Sebastian, came across the scammer in the reply section of a tweet by the real Elon Musk.
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