Twitter scammers impersonating Elon Musk are reportedly pivoting from free accounts to paid ads as they attempt to lure victims with promises of free crypto, trips to Mars, and Neuralink brain chips.

The numbers of ads featuring the Twitter CEO’s photo seem to be on the rise. Forbes even suggests that Twitter is either “knowingly or unknowingly profiting from crypto scams on its platform.”

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