No, Ripple Will Not Give Away 100 Million XRP: Scam Alert

A caller benignant of scam has begun to dispersed connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, this clip involving accounts spoofing the individuality of David Schwartz, 1 of the architects of XRPL, existent CTO astatine Ripple, and an highly fashionable assemblage member.

In fact, the scamming method is not new, with fake accounts filling each imaginable media abstraction with a ton of tweets astir giving distant hundreds of millions of XRP by clicking connected a "magic" link. However, successful the past, scammers utilized the individuality of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse for their purposes. Now they look to person switched to Schwartz.

It is apt that a blase Crypto Twitter user, arsenic good arsenic a longtime subordinate of the XRP community, is improbable to autumn for specified an uncomplicated scam. Nevertheless, XRP has been the fig 1 taxable successful the manufacture for the past 2 weeks and is evidently attracting newbies and not-so-experienced investors, who cannot assistance but leap successful to spot what the 100 cardinal XRP giveaway is each about.

Failed warfare connected bots

In general, the occupation with scam bots connected Twitter, and present X, has existed for a agelong time, and the warfare against them, declared by Elon Musk backmost erstwhile helium archetypal became the proprietor of the societal network, seems to beryllium unsuccessful.

At immoderate constituent aft July 13, for example, the occupation with bots targeting the aforesaid XRP assemblage reached specified proportions that salient members similar John Deaton had to publically telephone connected Musk for help. But things person not moved an inch.