It seems that the giant of social networks in social networks pirated the accounts of scammers with encrypted currency, but several members of the community of cryptologists have been in trouble.
Responding to the tweeting of Professor Cornell Emin Gunn Sier, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wrote that "we are in it". However, this assertion caused some critical considerations, given that in recent days several accounts, including Kraken's currency exchange support group, reported that they saw their accounts were limited despite attempts to warn others about invoices. imitators that imitate well-known members of the industry.
Kraken's losses were at least temporary, and finally the ban was canceled, according to subsequent tweets, after the Dorsey account became a community goal.
But other influential players, like Brooke Muller, aka @ bitcoinm, were not so happy. As Mullers explained, his account seems to have been banned by shadow, a method by which the account is invisible to others, even though the user does not know they are hidden, when requesting comments from other users.
She told CoinDesk:
"People just started me so they could not see my tweets on the transmissions," tweet is not available. "Others said they do not get notifications when I write a tweet, but not a word on Twitter. some strange nonsense for cryptologists on Twitter, the eruption of inhibitions and permanent suspensions. "
Neraj Agraval, director of communications in Washington, based in Washington, Coin Center, also reported problems with his account, although it is not prohibited. Several Twitter users who use and advertise the Ripple XRP token also tweet about the hidden prohibitions through their networks.
The problem of copying trusted Twitter accounts by tricks of cryptocurrency users is becoming more common.
Many of the issues under consideration start with the fact that an influential user publishes a tweet, after which a similarly developed account will trigger some free cryptographic currency offer, as long as the initial amount is sent to the specified address.
To make the messages more legitimate, other spam accounts publish auxiliary messages, claiming that they have already received payments.
A subsequent activity in the messages indicates that those behind the spam accounts use shortcuts to hide the purse addresses, which indicates that Twitter's antispam efforts are used to obtain this type of information.
