THELOGICALINDIAN - Vertcoins official Twitter annual was afraid beforehand today with the attackers announcement tweets attempting to betray users out of their bitcoins
At about 4:00 PM Tuesday, the Vertcoin Twitter folio appear a affected Bitcoin betrayal as a anniversary of Vertcoin’s success. The cheep asked users to accelerate 0.005 BTC to an abode to enter, with the champ to be appear on May 3. This is an all too accepted crypto-scam on Twitter, with affected accounts impersonating above players in the amplitude announcement affected ETH giveaways with dozens of replies adage it worked. What makes this betray different, however, is that this is the aboriginal time hackers managed to booty ascendancy of a accepted annual in adjustment to perpetrate the scam.
Lead Vertcoin developer James Lovejoy alleged out the drudge account afterwards the scam-tweet was posted.
News of the drudge and consecutive betray advance quickly, with account extensive the advanced folio of r/Vertcoin and alerting users of the advance aural minutes. Looking at the abode on a block explorer, we see that thankfully no one has been brainless abundant to accelerate money the attackers money so far.
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