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- Famous twitter personality A posts something. - (Usually) the first reply to their tweet is a bot with the exact same avatar BUT a slightly misspelled name of personality A offering 1000 ethereum in exchange for .10 ETH or what have you. - There are people gullible enough to send them ETH/any other crypto - Profit

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Back when they were super prevalent on Elon Musk's tweets, I'd look up the wallets and sure enough people were dumb enough to send it coins.

What gets me is the stupidly obvious fake replies saying it works.

Honestly the best solution is to open verification to everyone, not just notable people, anyone that actually wants to hand over their ID and prove they are who they say they are and let us filter out non verified users. If they don't want verification to look like an endorsement, that's what they need to do. Otherwise it is an endorsement.

I have a (dumb) friend who fell for this. It was a good scam - the eth scambot used the same profile photo and had a very similar @ username to elon's (minus the "Verified" icon of course), and it looked like "real" people were replying with affirmations.

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