Scammers allegedly mimicking GameStop pumper Keith Gill, nicknamed Roaring Kitty, are sharing crypto wallet drainers after hacking the X (previously Twitter) account of Microsoft India.
Microsoft India’s account began reacting to individual accounts with fake cryptocurrency airdrops and reposting videos from Roaring Kitty’s account to its 211,000 followers late Monday.
Beginning with “In celebration of our comeback, we decided to launch Presale…,” the comments then provide a link to a phony Roaring Kitty website where the con artists assert that visitors may purchase GameStop (GME) cryptocurrency during a pre-sale.
The account also has a golden checkmark that says “official,” which adds to the scammer’s legitimacy. Bleeping Computer claims that the scammer’s wallet drainer would steal all of the funds from anybody who links their cryptocurrency wallet to the fake website.
It is believed that the con artists are attempting to take advantage of the current excitement around Gill’s comeback to social media and its impact on GameStop trade by disguising themselves as Roaring Kitty.
A cryptocurrency created with the GME ticker has already reached a 24-hour volume of around $324 million, and it seems that memes uploaded by Gill to X last month prompted a boom in GME stock trading and altcoins as well.
He has received over 79,000 likes and 11 million views on X for his most recent post, which is a reverse uno card. In the time after the article went up, GME stock price increased from $22.91 to more than $40.
Gill shared his Reddit portfolio on the same day, which included around $66 million worth of GameStop call options and $115 million worth of GameStop shares.
Nine hours have passed since the previous bogus post on the Microsoft account. Since then, the default image has replaced the Roaring Kitty one, and the username is now just a period. As of yet, Protos has contacted Microsoft to learn more about whether or not the crypto fraudsters still have access to the account.
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