{"id":56047,"date":"2022-01-17T18:13:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T16:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=56047"},"modified":"2025-09-04T04:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:31:26","slug":"scammers-posing-as-microstrategy-ceo-dupe-user-out-of-more-than-1-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/scammers-posing-as-microstrategy-ceo-dupe-user-out-of-more-than-1-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers posing as MicroStrategy CEO dupe user out of more than $1.1 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of a fake YouTube channel impersonating MicroStrategy head Michael Saylor duped an unknown user out of 26 BTC (over $1.1 million), according to the Whale Alert bot.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude94 A payment of 26 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BTC?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BTC<\/a> (1,124,191 USD) was just made to a confirmed Michael Saylor Giveaway scam!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YNYRBLBt4P\">https:\/\/t.co\/YNYRBLBt4P<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Whale Alert (@whale_alert) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whale_alert\/status\/1482369659911483395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Posing as Saylor, the scammers promised to &#8216;double&#8217; any amount sent to the specified address in cryptocurrency. The user made five separate transactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cLast week, 489 such fraudulent channels were launched on YouTube. We report them every 15 minutes; they are taken down after a few hours, but the scammers launch more,\u201d wrote Saylor in his verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">489 of these scams were launched on YouTube last week. We report them every 15 minutes and they are taken down after a few hours, but the scammers just launch more\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Saylor\u26a1\ufe0f (@saylor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saylor\/status\/1482542350861754370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In December 2021, the attackers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/unknown-hackers-hacked-indias-prime-ministers-twitter-and-declared-bitcoin-legalization\">hacked the personal Twitter account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a> and, from his account, posted about the legalisation of Bitcoin in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A year earlier, his account was also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-breach-one-of-indias-prime-ministers-twitter-accounts\">hacked<\/a> \u2014 at that time unknown individuals posted a fake appeal to transfer funds into cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, the accounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates and other celebrities were targeted in a large-scale attack. In March 2021, the hacker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/eighteen-year-old-twitter-hacker-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison-and-three-years-of-supervised-release\">Graham Clarke was sentenced to three years in prison<\/a> with a subsequent probation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, cryptocurrency scammers <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-in-2021-cryptocurrency-scammers-earned-a-record-14-billion\">earned a record $14 billion<\/a>, according to analytics firm Chainalysis.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owners of a fake YouTube channel impersonating MicroStrategy head Michael Saylor duped an unknown user out of 26 BTC (over $1.1 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1208],"class_list":["post-56047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-michael-saylor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56049,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047\/revisions\/56049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}