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What is the deal with this Twitter scam?
3 points by paulpauper 22 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
This is a fake account for Senator Cynthia Lummis

https://x.com/SenLcummis

It is a gold account tied to a company called "EdgeCortix"

EdgeCortix appears legit (linked in profile: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edgecortix/) , but there is a fake account also calling itself EdgeCortix that has added these fake accounts as affiliates:

https://x.com/edgecortixAI/affiliates

What happened here? Did someone try to register Twitter Gold on behalf of a fake EdgeCortix, or was EdgeCortix hacked?

Not a surprise Twitter Gold is being abused by scammers.




This is the intended outcome of a community with no moderation or oversight.


Why would anyone still use Twitter.




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