A Facebook fan page apparently belonging to a bitcoin trickster who is acting like Elon Musk has erroneously been checked by Facebook, the Verge has announced.
The page is suspected to be controlled by somebody into fake cryptocurrency exercises.
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However, the page acknowledges it isn’t Musk as demonstrated in the About area. Be that as it may, it additionally made it resemble the authority page of Musk.
It says in the About: “This is a fan page, uploading tweets, etc from him.” But then the URL ends in “ElonMuskoffici”, which shows they’re unquestionably posing as though it’s an official page.
In the Page Transparency segment, it says that individuals who deal with the page are “based in Egypt,” not in the US, which is the place where Musk dwells.
The page which at present has 153,000 supporters as of the hour of documenting this report, has 11 posts.
While the vast majority of posts are only reposts of Musk’s tweets, the latest one is unmistakably a fake Bitcoin giveaway (the post has since been taken out).
According to the Verge, the page was made on July 28th, 2019 under the name “Kizito Gavin” with a few name changes from that point forward however the first post is on October 21st.
It changed its name to Elon Musk on October seventeenth.
Tricksters have now and again found ways around the official process of Facebook verification as it requires account owners to submit proof of their identities, such as a driver’s license or passport.
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Inquiries from Engadget to Meta, the organization formerly known as Facebook, are yet to be reacted to as of the hour of this report filing.
Meanwhile, as at around 7:16 PM ET, the page became “unavailable.” We were unable to check on the off chance that it has been disabled.
