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Crypto scammers are impersonating accounts by manipulating X links.
X (formerly Twitter) will let you replace the username in a post’s URL with... really, whatever you want, and it will still go to the original post. It’s been that way since at least 2019.
Bleeping Computer reported that scammers have been using the trick to direct people to fake crypto giveaways from Binance, Ethereum, and the like. If someone falls for it and connects a wallet, the scammers drain it.
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