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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. (www.mirror.co.uk)
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[–] loobkoob@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

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.