Question: How could this account be verified?

[ADA Lovelace]

Hi, i am seeing a lot of twitter accounts getting verified with little amount of followers and being use to scam. How is that possible? I thought that accounts should be verified by real people.
Here an example

 

[CWT]

Hi, i am seeing a lot of twitter accounts getting verified with little amount of followers and being use to scam. How is that possible? I thought that accounts should be verified by real people.
Here an example
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Some people buy verification.

 

[averjr]

They came from previous ponzi then scale up.

 

[PHPInjected]

Hi, i am seeing a lot of twitter accounts getting verified with little amount of followers and being use to scam. How is that possible? I thought that accounts should be verified by real people.
Here an example
View attachment 228039

What's up with your screenshot? In yours, the twitter handle is for the guy with 1500 followers but the name and profile image is for a guy with 950k.

Also, it's possible to create fake media campaigns for people & build up an entire fake persona around them & then submit the verification request to Twitter.

 

[ADA Lovelace]

What's up with your screenshot? In yours, the twitter handle is for the guy with 1500 followers but the name and profile image is for a guy with 950k.

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Also, it's possible to create fake media campaigns for people & build up an entire fake persona around them & then submit the verification request to Twitter.

Yes, that is what I am saying that it is being used to scam by impersonating other people. The capture is from a few days ago, it seems that he has edited his profile to impersonate someone else and continue scamming. I don't understand how it's not banned

They came from previous ponzi then scale up.

But I do not explain how it could be verified. How can you fool a twitter worker, if I'm not wrong and an algorithm does it

Some people buy verification.

yes, that was what I thought, but I don't understand how someone could verify the account

 

[TarArAis]

both accounts are from 2009, same bio, same link, same almost everything, ok so what about they're using the same name as a real person, then submit a request using the PR the other person already have and after verification they switch their name, does it make any sense?

 

[ADA Lovelace]

I've been doing some research and it looks like several verified people's accounts were hacked. It seems that it was by the same person, since I was investigating 3 accounts and they posted similar messages on the same days. Apparently that person has managed to hack several accounts of verified people, posing as other people and promoting scams. I don't know how he would have managed it, but it is rare for this to happen.

So he has not managed to verify accounts to scam, he has hacked several accounts of verified people to promote scams.

Here is another from a female PSG player that was hacked the same day



That's crazy

 

[TarArAis]

that is actually crazy, I don't even want to think how many people has fallen for this.... jss

 

[averjr]

I've been doing some research and it looks like several verified people's accounts were hacked. It seems that it was by the same person, since I was investigating 3 accounts and they posted similar messages on the same days. Apparently that person has managed to hack several accounts of verified people, posing as other people and promoting scams. I don't know how he would have managed it, but it is rare for this to happen.

So he has not managed to verify accounts to scam, he has hacked several accounts of verified people to promote scams.

Here is another from a female PSG player that was hacked the same day

View attachment 228065

That's crazy

Well, twitter will soon catch up to them.