Faced with frauds with cryptocurrencies on Twitter, this month have been launched two tools to prevent scams that deceive the public by supplanting identities and requesting payments with cryptocurrencies through that social network. These are the MetaCert Protocol Cryptonite and Scam Clerk applications.
By means of these two tools it is possible to detect the account imitators in the social network and verify if the published tweets come from the person who is being followed or from a counterfeiter who seeks to cheat the followers.
According to the announcement made on June 25 by MetaCert CEO, Paul Wash, in his Twitter account, Cryptonite is an extension of the Chrome, Firefox and Opera search engines that has been updated for use in the world of cryptocurrencies, In order to identify the scams in the social network , so now it is available in its beta version for Twitter.
Through this tool a green shield is generated that warns the public that it is before the original account . On the contrary, if the shield turns black it indicates that it is in front of an unknown site and an alarm symbol identifies the sites used to make phishing . Once the false account is identified, the tool automatically blocks it. The application is also useful for making checks on other social networks, websites and online applications where virtual wallets are hosted.
With a similar objective, Scam Clerk does a kind of analysis to detect viruses in the Twitter account , generating a board that indicates the imitators that have been blocked and a list (SCUM) with all the scam accounts identified in the network. Through its bot the application also proceeds to scan the list of friends and followers that are held in an account, offering data and complementary statistics in this regard.
The hacking of Twitter accounts to make scams with cryptocurrencies is a trend that has been increasing to the same extent that the use of cryptocurrency has become popular. Despite the warnings that are made to the public, many people continue to fall into the traps that cybercriminals tend to .
After hacking the accounts of people linked to the world of cryptocurrency, cyberdelicuentes usually make promotions and offers in their name, asking for a deposit in exchange, although there are other modalities that include fake raffles or lotteries that ask for a small deposit, usually in BTC or ETH, in exchange for receiving the alleged prize.
Twitter has been a land for scams despite the blue checkmark that the network puts at the public's hand to differentiate true accounts, as happened last February with the TRON Foundation account , which was completely imitated, with a photo of profile, biography and location. Faced with this situation some users have expressed their complaints to the Twitter platform, demanding greater security measures.
Among the recommendations to avoid this type of scams, is not responding to any direct message requesting personal data or private keys, in addition to being especially alert to those accounts that offer some kind of return in exchange for a small deposit of cryptocurrencies, a promise that should draw attention because it is usually false.
