Security News > 2022 > December > Elon Musk "Freedom Giveaway" crypto scam promoted via Twitter lists
Giving Elon Musk a follow on Twitter? You might be shortlisted by scammers looking to defraud Elon's newest followers.
New Musk followers are being added to a "Deal of the Year" list on Twitter that lures them into depositing small crypto amounts into the attackers' wallet with the false promise of receiving up to 5000 Bitcoin in return.
Fake Elon: '1000 new followers' get '5000 BTC'. Twitter accounts following Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX and related accounts are being targeted in a crypto giveaway scam dubbed 'Freedom Giveaway,' BleepingComputer has discovered.
A September report by cybersecurity firm Group-IB revealed the number of crypto giveaway scam domains had tripled this year.
In May, an investigation by McAfee and BleepingComputer found fake crypto giveaways had stolen millions from victims by reusing Elon Musk's Ark Invest YouTube videos to lure victims towards fake, scam domains.
At the time of writing, the wallet used by the 'Freedom Giveaway' scam shows a $0.00 balance indicating no one has fallen for the scam yet.