Vitalik Buterin impersonators ramp up ETH phishing ahead of The Merge By Cointelegraph

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Vitalik Buterin impersonators ramp up ETH phishing ahead of The Merge

The hype around The Merge has attracted a swarm of scammers that are actively using verified Twitter (NYSE:) accounts to impersonate co-founder Vitalik Buterin and dupe investors.

Prominent entrepreneurs, including one of the world’s richest man Elon Musk, pointed out numerous times the biggest problem of Twitter — bots. However, scammers have evidently amped up efforts to go unnoticed of their ill intentions by using verified profiles.

Fake and verified Vitalik Buterin impersonators carrying out phishing attacks. Source: Twitter