Be wary of Mega Millions winner “giveaway” on social media (social engineering)

LASER_oneXM

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I don’t do lotteries, but if I did, I’d probably never, ever win in a million years. That’s not a problem faced by 20-year-old Shane Missler, winner of the fourth-largest haul in Mega Millions’ 21 years of handing out large bundles of cash.

He’s on record as saying he wants to “do some good” for humanity, but I suspect he may have to do some good in the identification verification sweepstakes first.

An account has popped up on Twitter claiming to be him, and claiming he’ll be giving away large amounts of money for retweets. I mean, it’s not exactly donating a million to medical science, but it’s definitely going to help random recipients.

Only problem is, the account seems a little too good to be true. In fact, it’s just one of many currently being retweeted into the stratosphere:



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Shall we take a look?



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First off: the bio.

Lottery winner of $451 Million. Giving back $5,000 to the first 50k followers that retweet **SIGN UP AND PURCHASE IN LINK BELOW FOR AN INSTANT $2,000**
Well, that’s interesting. You have to “sign up” AND “purchase” via a link to receive $2,000?
 

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