Scammers hacked the late actor Matthew Perry’s Twitter account and posted a fake plea for cryptocurrency donations in the name of his foundation. The foundation confirmed the post was a scam and urged people not to donate.

The article details several possibilities for how the account may have been compromised, highlighting the importance of strong passwords and multi-factor authentication for securing social media accounts, especially for celebrities with large followings.

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They mentioned it in your article. Monero.

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So because the article says so, it’s definitely the case?

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Fair point, I did my own research and came to the same conclusion and have been active in the Monero community. However, don’t take my word for it, do the reading yourself, and I think you will come to the same conclusion. The article mentioned zcash too which is not private as they are willing to change their code to stay complient with governmyth surveillance demands and therefore have no ethos. monero was just delisted from binance a few days ago because the community refused to comply with demands to hurt user privacy. This IMO shows backbone.

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Having to do this sort of research just to discover which crypto currency you can’t actually know for sure that a nation state can’t watch but it seems like it might not seems like crypto currency isn’t the best way to guarantee anonymity compared to, say, a suitcase full of cash.

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