Beware of Fake John McAfee and Tesla Cryptocurrency Giveaways

[Mohammad.Poorya]

A resurgence of scam campaigns that pretend to be Bitcoin and Ethereum giveaways from Tesla, Elon Musk, and John McAfee are underway. These scams rise in popularity as cryptocurrency prices increase.

BleepingComputer was told by security researcher Frost that there has been a resurgence of cryptocurrency giveaway scams being promoted on Twitter. These scams state that if a person sends between .05 to 5 Bitcoins or .5 to 50 Ethereum to the listed address, the giveaway will send them up to ten times back.

Below are two examples pretending to be from Tesla and John McAfee, which you can click on to see them in larger sizes.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...hn-mcafee-and-tesla-cryptocurrency-giveaways/