No, the following is a scam, but it is so well done I thought it legit when I saw it. Basically if you go here, to this tweet, on McAfee’s official twitter page, you will see what looks exactly like a McAfee tweet, from his address.
The page it sends you to says, send him X number of bitcoins or Ethereums, and he will immediately send you back 10X. It will last until he has given away 1500 bitcoin and 10,000 Ethereum.
But the tweet is actually from @officialmcafee4, and not officialmacafee. But since twitter does not list addresses on the tweet, it looks exactly like Mcafee tweeted it himself. Adding to the confusion, if you look to see if McAfee has done it before on google, you will see he has in fact done a similar promotion just a little while ago in conjunction with another business venture, so it would seem if he advertised it on his twitter page, it would be a legit effort to pump up the price of his own bitcoin.
I apologize for posting this earlier. I thought it sounded like a scam, but on doing a google search saw McAfee did this type of thing.
One other interesting thing. Twitter shows you this scam if you are logged out, but not if you are logged in. I logged in, and the scam tweet disappeared. When I put in the page address for officialmcafee4, it first bounced me directly to mcafee’s official page, which was strange. When I put it in a second time, it showed me a banned/suspended page. When I logged out, the posts reappeared, as if twitter is showing scam pages to anyone who is not logged in as a user. Also interesting, as with anti-Trump tweets, this post gets the first spot under McAfee’s tweet whenever it appears. It seems statistically odd.
Seems like he saw something and is saying something:
I just got done reading that. They pushed him hard somehow and now he is in high amygdala and feels he has to act. I’ve been there myself. The problem is telling if what you are about to do is something that will actually push them back, or if it is what they want you to do. They could very well know what he has, and have calculated that it damages their enemies, and that is why they are pushing him.
The fact they always feel they have to covertly precipitate actions like this, and they never feel they can just sit down with someone, reasonably, and recruit them to their cause makes me think whatever they are doing is shady as fuck, and nobody who believes in the myth would willingly take part. Especially since they seem to do this with guys who really would go down shooting for a noble cause while scumbags I am sure get the easy recruitment and rich rewards.
Sent the $50 I had to him. We will see
It appears his strategy is to do this, and cause people who are not into bitcoin to buy in as a way of jacking up the price. The thought being if enough people with massive stores of bitcoin do it, the increase in bitcoin usage will profit them all even more. I saw where he was part of another one which was legit several months back to promote something else. That and he is trying to get traction for releasing a bitcoin debit card in a week or two that you can load for a fee which he wants to use to dominate regular usage of bitcoin as a regular currency.
On the off chance it didn’t work, bounce me an email and I will send over a gift card for it to replace the loss. It would be well worth the $50 to me to know 100% if the next one is not legit before I post it here.
That was fast. Bitcoin and Ethereum must be gone; both of the links in the article don’t work anymore. Wish I’d seen this in time.
Ok, now the webpage appears to be working. Sent my bitcoin. Ten minutes later it doesn’t show up in the transaction listing… hope I haven’t been scammed. Looks like the airdrop is almost finished.
Perhaps McAfee was hacked?
Just read the promotion rules. Looks like minimum buyin was 0.1 BTC. If you didn’t send that much, good luck. 🙁
He seemed to say if it wasn’t accepted it would be bounced back. Bear in mind, on the comments page they are talking about a 15 minute processing in and out.
Do you see your ID in the list on the page of transactions in and out?
Let me know what happens with this.
Money wasn’t returned. Also, on the page with the transaction listing, it was very suspicious. I saw transactions come in every few seconds, but it was reporting them as 1 minute ago, 4 minutes ago, etc. And the amount of BTC being disbursed, the bar that showed the 5000 BTC, the BTC should have been exhausted ages ago but it just kept going. So the numbers weren’t adding up even to basic visual inspection. I wish I’d gone to the transaction listing part of the page before sending my bitcoin.
Is this not an obvious scam? I don’t think McAfee is in any kind of financial position to be giving away $35 million.
I thought he was a billionaire?
I went to Twitter and followed McAfee’s instructions and it went to a different link that has a different bitcoin address. I ended up here: https://mcafee.space/btc/ Page looks the same, but different address (internet address, and bitcoin address to send money to) Perhaps we got punked.
That one is exactly the same as the last, with the same comments.
I wonder if McAfee is doing this?
I see how this happened. If you go here, https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1137891939100086272, that tweet, on Mcafee’s official twitter, pimping this looks exactly like McAfee’s, and is totally indistinguishable from a tweet of his because of how twitter lists tweets, without the actual address. But if I look at my browser history, that is from @officialmcafee4, rather than officialmcafee. It is a bogus twitter post made to look exactly like Mcafee’s, and when you google McAfee and airdropped crypto, you see he has taken part in them in the past as promotions, making it seem legit.
Why does his medium account have only 10 followers?
SCAM!
It was definitely a scam i lost $30
That sucks just lost 100 dollars