"I want to know who is running the Etherium scambots! Mad skillz …"



Which then got Ethereum's creator

to respond, sadly saying:



The scammers do seem to have dozens if not hundreds of impostor accounts pushing their scams. Even Global Crypto Press has been hit by them - so far we've reported two accounts impersonating our organization (The only real one is @GlobalCryptoDev ) - to Twitter's credit both were removed within 24 hours.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is among a long list of people targeted by Ethereum scammers on Twitter.The scam works like this - Elon Musk makes a real tweet, then immediately following it, a profile designed to look exactly like his will respond with something like "By the way, i'm doing a giveway for our fans..." this usually then involves some gimmick like "Send 0.5 ETH, and get 3 back!".The bots are aggressive, and manage to usually be the first reply to a targets tweets, causing Musk to comment:Vitalik Buterin-------