Twitter has seen an influx of "Charlie Lee" this week, with not just one, but several imposters posing as Litecoin's creator (LTC) and promoting it. a fake SLD gift.

I donate 180 Litecoin to the LTC community. The first 60 transactions with 0.3 LTCs sent to the address below will each receive 3 LTC at the original address of 0.3 LTC LKGMCZZxp4hSCkwDQCuefBiwh93diTKt2z Do not miss it. – Charlie Lee [LTC] (@SatoshiLitez) January 29, 2018

Most imposters use Twitter accounts with names very similar to the real Charlie Lee, @SatoshiLite, such as @SatoshiLitez and @SatoshiLitee_ , whose Twitter profiles correspond exactly to those of the real page of Charlie Lee.

The only difference between these crooks is the amount of LTC given, ranging from 50 to 500 LTC.

There are also the most lazy crooks with similar messages, like @LiteSatoshi, whose relatively unreliable Twitter page says that it's Roger Ver, or @ kevinco68774468, which page partially matches to Lee, but whose name appears your mother. "

The coverage of Cointelegraph's Blockchain Connect conference, which took place in San Francisco on January 26, was the subject of an attempt by your mother to swindle :

I donate 264 Litecoin to the LTC nite community The first 60 LTC 0.4 transactions sent to the address below will each receive 4 LTCs at the same time. original address of 0.4 LTC Not to be missed LTC:

LZa5YSVadWWQAGvBmmspdNXr1sq2qgNnGd – your mother (@ kevinco68774468) January 29, 2018

The real Lee tweeted a warning about crooks, who also told him to block him so that he could not see any new scam messages:

PSA: Please beware of this Twitter scam currently underway.After each message, there will be an immediate response a crook promising to give coins if you send him some. The message seems to come from me. Blocking them does not help them, they just create another account. pic.twitter.com/qPHxKntPHd – Charlie Lee [LTC] (@SatoshiLite) January 30, 2018

The scammers may be benefiting from Lee's announcement in December 2017 that he would have sold and donated all his property. LTC, hoping maybe Lee's past donation would make the scam more credible. However, since Lee no longer holds Litecoin, any LTC gift allegedly from Lee is unlikely to be true.

Through the press, all the fake Lee accounts mentioned in this article are still active on Twitter.