Scammers take advantage of Threads to impersonate influential users

It seems that scammers have been quick to take advantage of the launch of Meta’s new microblogging app, and several influential users in the Twitter crypto community have already warned about the existence of fake accounts on Threads.

Threads was launched on July 5 and in the days since it has registered more than 98 million users, although it is still far from reaching 450 million Twitter users.

However, in recent days, several personalities in the crypto community on Twitter have pointed out the presence of fake accounts on Threads, which impersonate themselves or other prominent users.

On July 8, decentralized finance platform Wombex Finance posted an image of an account on Threads posing as them, warning that it could be a scam as their project was not present on the platform.

Non-fungible token (NFT) influencer Leonidas posted a similar warning a day earlier to his 93,000 followers, mentioning that he and other “notable NFT accounts” were being impersonated by scammers on Threads. Leonidas claimed to have created a Threads account to confront impostors.

Jeffrey Huang, known on Twitter as Machi Big Brother, posted a Threads profile of him on July 6, with one user pointing out that there was already a fake Threads account posing as him.

So far, the above Threads accounts have avoided sharing scam or phishing links, and mostly post cryptocurrency-related content.

K. Tovar

Source: Cointelegraph

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