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People,Watch Project X Online please please pleaselisten closely: Elon Musk is not giving away Ether.

Scammers have swarmed Twitter in recent weeks in an attempt to trick people out of their hard-earned cryptocurrency, and as a particular tweet today makes clear they're having a lotof success.

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The scam itself is incredibly simple, and starts with someone famous tweeting out some random statement. Like this, for example:

That's when the scammers come in. Someone, with a Twitter account designed to mimic the famous person's, posts a reply promising free bitcoin, ether, or some other cryptocurrency. All you supposedly need to do to be on the receiving end of this potential bonanza is send a little ether to a provided address.

See where this is going?

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"To celebrate this, I'm giving awaу 5,000 ЕTH to my followers," reads once such reply from @elonlmusk (notice the extra "L"). "To pаrtiсipаte, just sеnd 0.5-1 ЕTH to the address bеlow and gеt 5-10 ЕTH back to the address you used for the transaсtion."

Clicking through the link takes you to a page that makes it look like ether is indeed being sent out. Spoiler: It's not. That page is fake.

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To make things even more confusing, the person behind the grift looks to have set up fake Twitter accounts to attest to the legitimacy of the con. The account @GaryPet70008539, for example, was created in January of this year and has only tweeted once.

The account @MattMar46412834 was also set up in January, and has also only tweeted once.

If you take the time to copy and paste the receiving ETH address into a legit service, like Etherscan, you are greeted with a very different picture. Specifically, one that shows no outgoing transactions and a whole lot of incoming.

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At the time of this writing there are almost 20 ETH in that account for a value of around $16,424. In other words, people are falling for this. Please don't be one of those people.

After all, while some fanboys like to call Elon Musk the real-life Tony Stark, Iron Man wasn't exactly known for randomly giving away cryptocurrency on the internet.

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