THELOGICALINDIAN - A Spacex bitcoin betray has frequently appeared on Youtube claiming to accord abroad BTC Its promo video appearance the contempo Spacex barrage with two NASA astronauts and an account with Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk The scammers affirmation that anyone sending bitcoin to them will be airdropped alert the bulk sent
Spacex Bitcoin Scam: Elon Musk’s BTC Giveaway
A bitcoin betray claiming that Spacex and its CEO, Elon Musk, are giving abroad bitcoin has been growing added common. Videos announcement that Spacex and Musk are giving abroad 5,000 BTC accept again appeared on Youtube, featuring Spacex’s May 30 barrage in accord with NASA and added projects. The celebrated barrage apparent the aboriginal animal amplitude mission from NASA’s Kennedy Amplitude Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, back the end of the amplitude shuttle affairs in 2011.
The Spacex Youtube bitcoin betray video shows a alive account with CEO Elon Musk about the contempo Spacex launch. An URL and a bitcoin abode are displayed on the video for bodies to accelerate their bill to participate or apprentice added about the BTC giveaway.
The URL on the video redirects to a webpage, advantaged “Spacex Foundation 5,000 Bitcoin Betrayal Airdrop.” The armpit states: “At a time of such all-around crisis, Spacex is actuality to action all the advice that we can. We accept the banking ambiguity that some bodies may be adverse appropriate now, and accept absitively to betrayal 5,000 bitcoin, in our best attempts to advice out.”
To participate, you charge to accelerate any bulk of bitcoin amid 0.1 BTC and 20 BTC to the bitcoin abode provided, which the scammers alarm the “official addition abode for this event.” The affected Spacex bitcoin website continues, “once we accept accustomed your transaction, we will anon accelerate aback (2x) to the abode that you beatific the bitcoin from.” That agency “if you accelerate 5 BTC, you will be airdropped 10 BTC 25% bonus,” the scammers wrote.
The Spacex bitcoin betray website alike has a “terms and conditions” area that reads: “This advance is accessible worldwide. Anyone can participate. You can alone participate once. If you try to participate added than once, your BTC will be automatically refunded. You can accelerate bitcoin application any wallet or barter – it does not matter.” Continuing to affectation red flags, the armpit added states:
BTC betrayal scams generally affection acclaimed bodies or contest that are hot at the time. News.Bitcoin.com afresh appear on a 5000 BTC betrayal betray leveraging the name of Virgin Galactic administrator Chamath Palihapitiya. Besides Spacex and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, added acclaimed bodies whose names accept been acclimated to advance bitcoin scams accommodate Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Virgin Group architect Richard Branson, Microsoft architect Bill Gates, and a cardinal of admiral in the crypto space.
Some bodies affirmation to accept collapsed for the betray and accept complained to Google Inc., buyer of Youtube, but the betray videos accumulate reappearing on the video-sharing platform. Anyone advancing beyond bitcoin giveaways charge booty attention as there are abounding of them. Spacex and CEO Elon Musk do not accord abroad chargeless BTC, but abounding scammers falsely use their names in an accomplishment to accomplish affected cryptocurrency giveaways arise legitimate.
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