The Twitter account of the chair of the Federal Trade Commission posts a thread about how to avoid identify a common scams.
It is immediately spammed by bot accounts promoting at least four different common scams.
This is Twitter under Elon Musk's management.
2024 February 15
Lina Khan
@linakhanFTC
1. Being the victim of a scam can be devastating.
A reminder that nobody from @FTC
will ever give you a badge number, [ or ] ask you to confirm your Social Security number.
Michael Busch /
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2024-02-16 00:31:03
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