Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.

The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.

  • kylie_kraft@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    let’s just connect everyone’s computers so they can talk to each other, it will be cool

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      Biggest scams are done in USD. The big part of not falling for a scam is doing your due diligence and people are adults and should be treated as such.

      • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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        Biggest scams are done in USD.

        That’s because USD is widely used.

        Crypto isn’t widely used and it still has scams worth millions. Cryptwats are 🤡🤡🤡

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          At most a couple thousand. Ive been using crypto for ~10 years now and by doing my homework and not jumping on hype trains have not been scammed.

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            I haven’t yet sent my life savings to a Nigerian prince, so there are no scams.

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              I wasn’t measuring in fiat when I said a couple of thousand. however, i was also using inaccurate numbers so my fault. Using those numbers 73000000000/50000 = 1460000

          • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

            You’ve admitted that you need to be cautious when using crypto because you buy the wrong one and you loose everything.

            That little fact alone makes it fucking useless to the average person. FTX conned lots of people, celsius.

            Seriously you’re just pissing in the wind and ya wonder why you’re getting wet

            STOP PISSING IN THE FUCKING WIND!
            WE DON’T CARE!

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              Buy the real ones, bitcoin, ethereum, monero. Second tire like litecoin are okay, but not as good. Stablecoins are not real crypto since they are managed by companies and can be revoked or frozen.

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                What is the point of cryptocurrency if someone like you has to tell other people which ones are the good ones?

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                  In my view, the point is that everything will be tried, and lots will fail. But some will succeed, and those will become the things people go to. Another point is that most cryptocurrencies are either deflationary or inflationary, but controlled very strictly by code, and therefore runaway inflation will not happen. So there will be no more million dollars in Bobway bills, or Venice Waylas, or Argentina’s, or whatever, with hundreds and thousands of percent of inflation per year. Separation of money and state is something we should strive for because the state will no longer be able to fund endless wars and prosecution against innocent people. The way they do it now is through inflation, since taxation is not popular.

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        To be fair, it makes sense for chai tea to be made explicit from unspiced black tea while still letting people unfamiliar with it know that it’s tea. Cryptocurrency not so much.

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        It’s a ponze scheme. It always was. It may have found a niche, unregulated market, but that doesn’t make it any less of a ponze scheme

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          It was specifically designed to be a currency and that’s what people are using it for. So I guess currencies can be Ponzi schemes. The dollar sure is one.

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            Tell me you don’t know what a ponze scheme is without telling me you don’t know what a ponze scheme is.

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              lol at you calling bitcoin a Ponzi scheme and then saying fiat isn’t a Ponzi scheme. How ironic

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              Let me make sure I know my differences between a Ponzi scheme and a pyramid scheme. Because I may well be getting them confused. They sound very similar. Apparently Ponzi schemes are investing money while pyramid schemes are recruiting and making payments like a service. So yes. Money is a Ponzi scheme.

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                You’re making an inexplicable leap of logic that still has me thinking you have no idea what you’re talking about. Though I’m willing to believe you think you know what you’re talking about.

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                  So what is money ultimately? It’s an abstraction that we exchange with one another as a common denominator for trades instead of me trading you 16.125 cows for a car. Therefore, with nobody to use it, a money is worthless. And so, to get people to use your money, they have to invest in it. They’re by making all money a Ponzi scheme. If they already have a money, then they are investing their money for your money. And if they don’t already have a money in existence, then they are investing time for your money.

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      The fact that people are still saying things like this about crypto—even after ETF approval—is proof that it’s still early. By the time the average person realizes what’s been going on with Bitcoin, it’ll be too late for you.

      I’ve already tripled my initial investment from a year ago, and we’re just only getting started.

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    Weird that they wouldn’t either delete the account or memorialize it thereby removing the ability to log in or create posts.

    But hey! It’s Twitter, the worst managed social media platform on the internet!

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      memorialize it thereby removing the ability to log in or create posts

      I don’t think that’s a thing on Twitter? And not to defend Twitter, but it would be something for his estate to handle, not Twitter themselves.

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    Every celebrity/rich has a foundation. And they make you believe that they do it to help the poor.