Twitter Hack

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:15 pm

A virtual shit-ton of prominent accounts were hacked today by a bitcoin scammer.

Bill Gates
Elon Musk
Apple
Kanye
Uber
Jeff Bezos
and more

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:18 pm

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:34 pm

Merkin wrote:

What's wrong with people?

The internet, and ESPECIALLY social media, promised to educate us to other viewpoints and shared experiences based on connecting the world, presumably for the greater good.

Instead, this lauded connectivity has served as invitation for the gleefully stupid to revel in, promote, and celebrate their stupidity. It only takes 5 minutes on Facebook to confirm this. It's striking how degraded Facebook's user base has become in the past 5 years.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:43 pm

People just aren’t all that bright. Just read about some woman who didn’t realize she was being scammed until she showed up in Nigeria expecting to get married.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:51 pm

My parents received a call last week from Amazon asking about a $400 purchase. They didn't make a purchase and they ended up giving this nice person on the phone a whole bunch of info.

There was never a purchase made and my parents had to freeze all of their accounts.

I had to explain to them that Amazon would never call them. I then asked if they ever looked on their Amazon account to see if there was a charge.... of course they didn't.

I fucking hate scammers

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:26 pm

No blue checkmarks!

UofAlum05 · Post by **UofAlum05** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:27 pm

Alieberman wrote:No blue checkmarks!

Shit, even Obama's.

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:28 pm

UofAlum05 wrote:
Alieberman wrote:No blue checkmarks!

Shit, even Obama's.

But Trump can't tweet!!!!!

What is he going to do now?

UofAlum05 · Post by **UofAlum05** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 3:38 pm

Whoever hacked it must have been doing it as a test to see what they could get into and for how long. There is a lot more damage a sophisticated hacking group could do than have people donate to a Bitcoin scam.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:32 pm

Things that make you go hmmmm....

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 4:40 pm

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:04 pm

People are that dumb. You should see some of the scams and fraudulent emails and texts I've seen people fall for in my 13 years working in banking. People think it's just the old and confused. It certainly isn't.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:05 pm

Alieberman wrote:My parents received a call last week from Amazon asking about a $400 purchase. They didn't make a purchase and they ended up giving this nice person on the phone a whole bunch of info.

There was never a purchase made and my parents had to freeze all of their accounts.

I had to explain to them that Amazon would never call them. I then asked if they ever looked on their Amazon account to see if there was a charge.... of course they didn't.

I fucking hate scammers

See my post above. I've unfortunately seen stuff like you've described first hand thousands of times in the last 13 years. To the tune of millions of dollars.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:08 pm

Chicat wrote:

Why is this guy so surprised? All of these social media brands are heavily centralized with one, controlling voice at the top - Zuck, Dorsey, Larry Page. Said politicians bow to these guys rather than compel answers from. Been this way for years.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:08 pm

Yea it's not really shocking at all

OriginalAZ · Post by **OriginalAZ** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 5:43 pm

Chicat wrote:People just aren’t all that bright. Just read about some woman who didn’t realize she was being scammed until she showed up in Nigeria expecting to get married.

Yup. I had a patient once who went to the Philippines thinking he was getting married. He came back to the US and became suicidal.
Another one who spent over $30,000 in one year on some website communicating with a Chinese woman he was going to marry.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 6:03 pm

The blue checks are back.

scumdevils86 · Post by **scumdevils86** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 7:14 pm

I had a man once probably 10 years ago that blew over150k wiring money to his new wife in Jamaica. Guy was in his 70s and recently widowed. Lonely, didn't know how to live alone. By the time it was over he had lost all of his savings and couldn't even pay his utility bills. But throughout it all he insisted it was real and he was getting married to this lady from Jamaica. Terrible.

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:30 pm

I wanna live in
the analog world
I could be happy
the rest of my life
in the analog world

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Wed Jul 15, 2020 8:37 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:51 am

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:40 am

Imagine all they could do really. Have Trump tweet that he's having Biden arrested. Have Biden tweet a confession to some crime and announcing he's dropping out. Anything really

Alieberman · Post by **Alieberman** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:04 pm

Did any Republicans get hacked? It seems it was all Dems.... which could be a bad sign for an October surprise

ASUHATER! · Post by **ASUHATER!** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:15 pm

Alieberman wrote:Did any Republicans get hacked? It seems it was all Dems.... which could be a bad sign for an October surprise

Well pretty sure you can't necessarily count Musk and Bezos as Democrats

84Cat · Post by **84Cat** » Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:28 pm

How does djt have extra security and none of the dems have it? Who was targeted in 2016? Not djt

UofAlum05 · Post by **UofAlum05** » Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:37 pm

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 05, 2020 7:16 am

UAEebs86 · Post by **UAEebs86** » Wed Jul 14, 2021 4:56 pm

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Wed Jul 14, 2021 5:03 pm

No more enemas?

ghostwhitehorse · Post by **ghostwhitehorse** » Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:47 am

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