Watch Out for Those Cryptocurrency Promotions ... Sometimes Fake, Other Times Not!

Watch Out for Those Cryptocurrency Promotions ... Sometimes Fake, Other Times Not!

The last few days have been rather busy, and today I presented on machine learning and AI in Cyber Security at CRESTCon:

On a rather busy train home from London to Edinburgh, I was surfing Twitter, and noticed a few tweets where it looked as if I was liking crypto currencies:

The user "billatnapicer" has been created, but with zero followers and no-one to follow, and with three tweets. There are a few strange things in the message, too, such as with the т character and the small caps in "Wisнes":

Dear Users!

to support оur community and crypтocurrency holders we made a prоject!

yоu can use any exchаngе or walleт

Detаils bеlow:

bеst Wisнes!

The profile has not been fully copied, and the account has been created in April 2018:

I can say has never owned cryptocurrency, and would certainly never promote them for my own financial gain. John McAfee, though, did (getting paid $105K for promotions):

The following tweet from John made the cryptocurrent jump by 350%:

Why don't you come along to one of our forthcoming presentations, and I'll outline the full story of John's tweeting?

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