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Scammers target verification on Twitter

Verification on Twitter will cost money in the future, plans new owner Elon Musk. However, the announcement immediately drew scammers into action, who are now sending phishing emails.

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has caused quite a stir in the past few days. Because the plans of the Tesla boss could bring some changes to the short message service.

This also applies to the previously free option of having your own account verified. In the future, the blue tick will only be available to users with a subscription to Twitter Blue.

But the news not only upset many users. She has also called scammers onto the scene, who are now trying to get their hands on users’ money with phishing emails.

Phishing emails target verification on Twitter

Among other things, reports on the phishing e-mails NBC-Journalist Kevin Collier and TechCrunch-Journalist Zack Whittaker. Both posted screenshots of the news on their Twitter account.

The messages come from the sender address twittercontactcenter@gmail.com. It states that verification after November 2 will cost $19.99 per month for some users.

Above all, users are affected for whom the network cannot “fully prove” that they are “famous or well-known people”.

Also attempts at fraud via Twitter lists

But not only phishing e-mails are used to try to cheat with verification on Twitter. This is also attempted via Twitter lists, again mirror reported.

So be a mirror-Journalist in Germany has been added to a list called “Removal Notice” on Twitter. Here it was said that Twitter had “classified his account as inauthentic after careful examination”.

He could avoid “permanent removal” of his verification on Twitter by appealing through a website. The page is after mirrorHowever, the information has since been deleted.

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