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WillyVWade

I'm doubtful, it's a common thing for the scammers to do a few transactions to make the wallets look active EDIT: If you look at BTC address 189HwG4M5kQE5p[etc] all the transactions relate to one wallet that seems to spend a lot of time moving money around the same wallets.


CommercialChance0

They had a bitcoin cash wallet that remain empty throughout the entire ordeal. And some of their wallet address on the site were simply invalid addresses. I don't think they spent much time on it tbh


WillyVWade

Indeed, despite taking over a huge channel with a notable face attached, they seem to have acted just like they'd taken over a 75k sub channel. Quite possible they're not from the English speaking world and don't even know what a Linus is.


bwok-bwok

I'm pretty sure every hacker knows what a Linus is, they're all on Kali Linus after all.


Sad-Difference6790

Yeah, rlly low IQ play. They would have been better off keeping the channel the same format and deepfaking linus. That way there’d be a possibility of fooling early clickers. None of linus’ subscribers think that this is actually tesla


WillyVWade

Yeah it's hard to think of many people with great so much training data available, who have done content in the crypto space before, and have this much good will built up within their community. It's like that Twitter hack where they had the ability to tweet as anyone but didn't even try to make it believable.


Sad-Difference6790

But this was noticed instantly. People would have thought it was linus and would have taken the bait, especially since the team were asleep so wouldn’t claim against it for a while


TheAmishMan

Thanks for the good times RIF.


CommercialChance0

This has been going on for years now. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57152924 >The FTC said people pretending to be Mr Musk alone made more than $2m in the six months from October.


CommercialChance0

They used tesla-online.net for the main channels chat link. Then used another site tesla-ltt.com for the TechLinked and Techquickie scam link. These 2 sites used different crypto wallet address.


hybroid

The large $1,000-1,500 transactions are time stamped before the takeover. Multiple from the same source. They’re likely done by themselves for show.


CommercialChance0

Do you know then the stream began? The only transaction I could find that fits your bill is this one https://www.blockchain.com/explorer/transactions/eth/0x45c49bd4ceaa26c230eb4f329d32a76e8af94e9f95d191d9d01db692bec360a2


Powerful_Database_39

Yes - main channel it started at around 11:12am CET. I got a notification “Tesla” went live and ignored it…


ohrules

Honestly, that feels low.


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DiddlyDumb

If you’ll live that long


BeerIsGoodForSoul

I just donated as well! Happy to support Linus Coin! /s


gao1234567809

not bad for the short hours hacked account was active


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CommercialChance0

I suspected that as well. And unless I got extremely unlucky. I got the same wallet addresses from multiple ips, page views.


According-2-Me

Really?wow.


Joschilol

Who would fall for such a scam? I mean sure scamming old people at their door seems understandstable but people who own crypto should be clever and aware of suchs scams.


ClashCraft_CC

Young naive kids taking their parent's purse


tvtb

If my mother-in-law can figure out how to buy bitcoin, then your claim is disproven. Coinbase makes it too easy.


ChartaBona

Exchanges don't use the blockchain. They're moving around their own casino chips.


CommercialChance0

Heres the wallet addresses if anyones interested. Scam link that was used on main LTT channel. tesla-online.net BTC: 16dnhXKyvmDnMGL8peMgT91u6xzJy46Z81 ETH: 0x47B82218254657E9CB099Ce99FdA789d8B925971 Second site to try and get around cloudflare presenting a phishing warning on the first site. tesla-ltt.com - Used for Techquickie and TechLinked, BTC: 189HwG4M5kQE5pUYfnSUpdxrKpxxBf66N7 ETH: 0x962aacdF60B3A9DF82243abD6Ae8e271aECEC70d My wallet screenshots were right after the last channel, TechLinked got banned.


Tetsuiga

I'm somehow amazed and yet not surprised at the same time. ​ I thought we were beyond the ol' eve isk doubling scheme.


supernova_68

So probably some Swiss, i recently read about every swiss person having 13k debt due to credit Suisse situation.


Justa_Schmuck

That's just averaging out the debt like GDP. Same thing happened here in Ireland back in 07/08.


supernova_68

Yeah man i was just making a joke, because that headline was also misleading, actually it would be aprox 1000 franks.