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Last night, I suspended an account, 27 minutes after it was created, for claiming to be E lon M usk. It had the whole scammer M.O. It immediately began following a bunch of people, hoping to hit on someone who would believe it was the real person contacting them.

I read about people losing huge sums of money to these scams.

This is the 4th famous-person impersonation account I've removed since starting this Mastodon server. The first time, they did hit someone on Mastodon who believed the account was official and who started engaging. I reached out to that person after suspending the offender to tell them the account they responded to was fake.

For those who need to hear this, please be careful. No famous person is going to reach out to you on Mastodon, or any other social media.

#Scam #Mastodon