Yugocean
Valued Contributor
The Ethereum Merge process is finally completed, but there is a lot of anger among people against Vitalik and Twitter over the blue tick scam that happened just 2 days before the merge.
Buterin is very active on social media, particularly Twitter, where he is verified, and scammers target this. From nowhere, fake Vitalik Twitter accounts appeared with blue ticks and advertised the merger celebration giveaway sponsored by Vitalik, which is a known Ponzi strategy to scam people .
Those who lost their ETH to the scam, are now blaming both Vitalik and Twitter, asking them to return their assets. Although anyone can say that they (victims) are responsible for their own actions (sending ETH), Twitter and Vitalik are not clean on this. Twitter's fault is the fake verification mark, and Vitalik's fault is that he tried nothing against the scam address, no red alert was issued to any exchange or wallet.
Buterin is very active on social media, particularly Twitter, where he is verified, and scammers target this. From nowhere, fake Vitalik Twitter accounts appeared with blue ticks and advertised the merger celebration giveaway sponsored by Vitalik, which is a known Ponzi strategy to scam people .
Those who lost their ETH to the scam, are now blaming both Vitalik and Twitter, asking them to return their assets. Although anyone can say that they (victims) are responsible for their own actions (sending ETH), Twitter and Vitalik are not clean on this. Twitter's fault is the fake verification mark, and Vitalik's fault is that he tried nothing against the scam address, no red alert was issued to any exchange or wallet.