Elon must act to stop the tide of frauds swamping Twitter - Ed Sheeran, Bear Grylls, Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Holland have all had their names exploited in scam tweets. So, ironically, has Elon Musk.

No he shouldn’t. He should just do nothing. Let Twitter die already. Also those are all so obviously AI generated images lol

I’m sorry, I can’t agree that nothing should be done. I would love Twitter to die, but these scams are actively hurting people. They are criminals and must be stopped and Twitter is doing nothing about it, even when Elon himself is used as bait.

The biggest scammer of them all runs Twitter, so don’t get your hopes up too high.

I’m not hopeful at all. If anything, it will get worse.

Maybe to someone who’s online and knows what to spot it is. For a normie, it’s good enough to pass off as authentic.

You and I wind up subsidizing these scams, as victims can fall into the social safety net.

Unlike here, where all the celebrities are 100% real, take it from me.

I loved you in that thing!

Thank you for loving me in that thing too!

Not in that other thing though. So happy you made that thing after it. Soooooo good! You were robbed of that Oscar.

Hey, its me Elong Musk. twottef owner and tesla

I am lost my wallet and need some help buying train ticket home.

Please send me 20 doller google play gift card and when I am home I will repay you million dollars. I will be very graceful

In serious, scammers typically make it fake as shit since the people most likely to be scammed are going to overlook it anyways.

I have read that scammers try to make the scams look fake and crappy because they don’t want to entice any actually clever people - that’s more trouble than it’s worth. These are simple.scams for simple people.

Hi Mom! I was coming home from Mike’s and some guy mugged me, and I had the rent money in my pocket! Can you Venmo me $900 real quick? My new email is best.moms.son@gμail.com. I’ll pay you back next Friday when I get paid! Love you!

I got one about as good as that on reddit. I received a series of DMs saying that I could, for $200, get a card recognizing my membership in the Elon Musk fan club.

They make it blatantly fake on purpose to weed out the more intelligent people who are less likely to fall for a scam. The scammers don’t want to spend hours reeling someone one in by appearing legitimate, only for the person to disengage at the first sign of a scam. They’d rather just filter those people out right away with something blatantly fake, and the people who are left are the ones susceptible to being scammed.

There are a lot of legitimate reasons someone might be a victim of one of these scams that aren’t the result of them being stupid, I don’t see any reason to encourage this crap

There’s plenty of vulnerable and not terribly IT literate people out there who are ripe for falling for these sorts of things. Never root for the scammers.

Elon doesn’t have to do anything. People need to leave Twitter.

Pet peeve of mine: nothing about this is “ironic.”

If the author really wants an adverb, I’d probably go with “unsurprisingly.”

They don’t know what the word means. They honestly seem to think that the word ironic means slightly funny.

I think “incidentally” would fit quite well here

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