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wild_preference on July 11, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions ...

I saw one of those Ethereum scambot dopplegangers on a high profile tweet that was verified. Really looked awful and definitely caused more damage since people are trained to trust it.

saint_fiasco on July 11, 2018 [–]

Any hacker that manages to get the credentials of any verified user can just change that account's name and picture to that of a famous person for easy impersonation.

realusername on July 12, 2018 | [–]

Just the fact that you can get a verified account and change the name to anything without the need to get verified again is a massive loophole.

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