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		jacquesm on July 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in si... They could have shut these bitcoin giveaway scams down with a single regex a year ago when they first showed up. They let them go and this is the price they will pay. Let's see if someone is going to sue Twitter because 'verified' to be Bill Gates is meaningless now.

saagarjha on July 15, 2020 [–]

This is much, much worse than a typical Bitcoin scam.

jacquesm on July 15, 2020 | [–]

It has the same textual footprint. These tweets should be quarantined automatically until expressly checked by a human being.

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