Plainly the Twitter account of Kevin O’Leary, the star of the tv program “Shark Tank,” has been hacked by scammers who’re pushing a giveaway of each Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH).
Certainly, on December 29, the account pinned a tweet a few supposed giveaway and instructed followers to “click on the picture to join the event.” In a succession of tweets, the TV persona’s followers began to get suspicious because of the quantity of tweets and the syntax used.
“My accounts was not hacked! Last night I said on TV that I was going to do a giveaway. Enjoy.”
One other tweet said:
“This giveaway is not FAKE and is not SCAM. My accounts was not hacked !!!”
Kevin O’Leary loses thousands and thousands over FTX collapse
Earlier this month O’Leary revealed that his involvement with the FTX cryptocurrency trade value him thousands and thousands of {dollars}. Notably, O’Leary was paid $15 million by FTX to function a paid advocate for the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency trade, which some individuals have known as fraudulent.
“I put about $9.7 million into crypto. I think that’s what I lost. It’s all at zero. I don’t know because my account got scrapped a couple of weeks ago. All the data, all the coins, everything. It was not a good investment. Then I lost the money I invested in the equity as well, those are zeros too,” he mentioned.
FTX traders have filed a lawsuit in opposition to O’Leary amongst different celebrities claiming that the trade’s ambassadors ought to have completed extra analysis and been extra cautious earlier than endorsing the cryptocurrency firm.
The current incident gained’t have completed O’Leary any favors throughout the cryptocurrency neighborhood, who’re already distrustful of the entrepreneur and media persona on account of the FTX advertising and marketing.
