The hype around The Merge has attracted a swarm of scammers that are actively using verified Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) accounts to impersonate Ethereum 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.