The tweet that went out, notice how the actual account is @patheuk

A look into the wallet of the scammer.

Elon Musk has been a long time favorite person to pose as for scammers on Twitter, A few month ago he even remarked "I want to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz …"



Twitter has taken down the tweets, and given the hacked @PatheUK account back to the rightful owners.



For a look back on some other past Twitter imposter scams, check out a Twitter has taken down the tweets, and given the hacked @PatheUK account back to the rightful owners.For a look back on some other past Twitter imposter scams, check out a short article I wrote at the beginning of the year titled "People are falling for some of the dumbest scams we've ever seen".

This time, the scam was at least a bit more creative than usual - the scammers first hacked a real verified account, giving them control over a username that has the blue "verified" check mark next to it.Then, they switched the account name to "Elon Musk" and tweeted out the following:But they didn't stop there - then (using a stolen credit card we can safely assume) they purchased advertising from Twitter and gave the post some extra promotion - causing tens of thousands of extra people to see it.The scam itself was the usual bait of "send some Bitcoin i'll send even more back" - which from a verified account or not - is always an obvious scam. So, honestly it's a bit hard to feel sorry for the 'victims' here.Now, a look into the wallet the site directed people to send funds to (is sitting with a little over 28 BTC in it! Valued at nearly $180k.-------