By The founder of Tesla and the Space X program, Elon Musk recently called to arms the help of Dogecoin and Adobe product lead Jackson Palmer in a team-up effort to eliminate Ethereum coin scammers on Twitter.
It had been for months a problem on Twitter, where ETH scammers plagued the social network with spam messages on the feeds of public figures in the crypto sector and other sectors. They lured new users with phishing scams such as: “send one ETH and get two ETH back.
A Team-up Worthy Of Praise:
Back in May, Jackson Palmer created a script which automatically blocks ETH giveaway scammers which make use of the same profile pic as the public figure. This script eliminates all the annoying issues with these ETH scammers by identifying the accounts that bare the identical profile images of these public figures and instantaneously blocks them, thus eliminating the possibility of the scam accounts being able to comment on the posts of the real public figures.
Palmer’s script proved to be very effective by preventing newly created scam accounts and bots from spamming comment sections of prominent public figures in the crypto arena which almost made Twitter unusable for a few months.
It was on the 18th of September that Elon Musk reached out to Palmer via Tweet mention asking him for help in order to integrate the same script that Palmer created in May to remove the ETH scam bots from Musk’s tweets.
Palmer responded by sending Musk a DM (direct message) on Twitter which contained the script thus assisting Musk in implementing the script.
“If you DM me (your DMs aren’t open), I’ll send you the script – it’s short, simple and you just run it with cron somewhere,” Palmer said.
A couple of minutes later, Palmer stated on Twitter that Musk had received the script and called out Twitter’s dev team for not fixing the problem on their end.
Palmer said:
“Update: Elon has the script. We had a good chat on how [Twitter CEO] Jack and the Twitter team should definitely automate and fix this problem on their end though.”
A Happy Ending And Simple Fix:
As we know, the cryptocurrency community on Twitter is massive. These ETH scammer bots caused a huge ruckus on Twitter and many crypto users were enraged at Twitter’s development team for their struggle in fixing the problem. As Jackson Palmer pointed out, the solution to fixing these scam bots was simple, detect and ban any newly created accounts with identical profile pictures.
Jack, in response to many tweets calling out the platform for not solving the problem, kept telling users that Twitter was working on the problem but the bots continued to be an issue.
Back in June, it was reported that the ETH giveaway bots had already stolen more than $4.3 million and that Twitter was nowhere close to solving the matter.
John Backus, who is also the co-founder of Bloom, stated that the problem is more difficult when it comes to hacked verified accounts utilizing ETH scams.
“Still a hard problem. I’ve seen a handful of giveaway scams where the scammer used a hacked Verified account so, when they change the profile pic to match the OP, it’s MORE believable because of the blue check,” Backus claimed.
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