Scam Twitter Profile Impersonates 6 Different Crypto Accounts

In an egregious example of the "Blue checkmark" scam infecting crypto-Twitter, a fraudulent account that recently aimed to dupe users of the cryptocurrency Verge moved onto Bitfinex - that is, before going dark complete.

y. The Next Web reported Wednesday that freelance film producer and director Seif Elsbei's verified Twitter account, which boasts Twitter's coveted blue checkmark and over 83,000 followers, was posing as the official account of the Verge developers.

The cryptocurrency was thrust into the limelight Tuesday with the news that Pornhub would accept it as a payment method.

They then proceeded to retweet messages from the actual verge account.

Seifsbei as Bitfinex, 2:11 pm EDT. A Google search for the account indicates that it was impersonating another exchange, Bittrex, prior to posing as either the verge team or Bitfinex.

Elsbei announced on his Facebook page Tuesday that this account had been hacked and that he was working to recover the handle.

After being contacted by CoinDesk, the account removed its banner image and avatar.

" As of press time, the account has not lost its checkmark.

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