Social media platforms can issue badges that we refer to as ‘blue ticks’ to these accounts in order to confirm the authenticity of accounts such as public figures, companies, organizations and institutions. This badge has the same design on every social media platform and is located at the end of the names of the accounts. Although certain conditions are set by social media platforms to get blue ticks, unfortunately we can see that some accounts that may mislead people from time to time also get blue ticks.
The last example of this happened on Facebook the other day. An account created under the name Elon Musk was accidentally approved by Facebook and received a blue tick badge. Worst of all, this verified account had over 150,000 followers and was managed by Bitcoin scammers.
Classic ‘1. Give $ 000, I’ll throw $ 2,000 back’ posts:
The shares made from the account that won confirmation under the name of Elon Musk, that is, the official account of Elon Musk at first glance, used a fraud method that we are very used to on social media. The scammer briefly said, “Send $1,000 to the crypto wallet I gave you, and I will send you $2,000. ” he was saying.
It is unknown how the currently inaccessible Facebook account was approved. Because any person who wants to have a blue tick on Facebook is asked for identity information. It seems that the scammers have managed to find a way around this. Facebook has not made any statement on this issue.
On the other hand, the page did not have the name Elon Musk from the very beginning. According to the details in the Facebook information, the page was created on January 28, 2019 under the name ‘Kizito Gavin’. Since then, the name of the page has been changed 6 times and took the name Elon Musk on October 17, 2021. There was also information that those who managed to get blue ticks on their fake pages were in Egypt.
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