Fight Telegram Impersonators With A Bit Of Common Sense And A Dash Of Vigilance

Julian Molina is co-founder of Superalgos.org, an open-source project building a Collective Trading Intelligence.org. The number, frequency, and scale of scams involving impersonations are growing like fungi. The recent YouTube ads scam impersonating Vitalik Buterin saw hundreds of ads and websites deployed from multiple accounts and locations. Coindesk recently reported their newsletters had fallen victim too, with fake newsletter-like emails directing unsuspecting victims to XRP “reallocation” fraudulent sites.