Twitter investigates how cryptocurrency scammers changed handles on verified accounts and kept verified badges to trick users to send funds to scammer wallets
This is the Twitter account for Tron Foundation, the organization behind a cryptocurrency that has a current valuation of $2.8 billion. Tweets: @cwarzel , @buzzfeednews , @cwarzel , and @rmac18 Tweets: Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : Update: Twitter told @BuzzFeedNews it's investigating what it's calling “recent errors around changed usernames and verification status.” http://www.buzzfeed.com/... @buzzfeednews : A phishing Twitter account is posing as the cryptocurrency organization Tron Foundation using the same profile photo, pinned tweet, bio, and location — and it's verified http://www.buzzfeed.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : what's wild about this is that Twitter's verification standards are supposed to stop this. And yet it seems scammers have hijacked the accounts! https://www.buzzfeed.com/... pic.twitter.com/b4saX6MNgL Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Twitter allowed some cryptocurrency scammers to take over verified accounts. And people are losing money over it. http://www.buzzfeed.com/...