Category: social media
Fake social media accounts: The rise of Cointelegraph impersonators, explained
Fake “Cointelegraph” accounts are scamming crypto users. Learn how to spot impostors, verify identities and stay protected in 2025. If you’re a tier-1 crypto media sales representative in 2025, chances are you have an impersonator. These are often fake Telegram, X or LinkedIn accounts offering “Tier-1 PR” to unsuspecting businesses, only to share a personal USDT wallet address when it’s time to pay. Cointelegraph has seen plenty of such cases. In October 2025 alone, a Telegram profile styled as “Tobias Vilkenson | Cointelegraph” messaged BNB Chain to “set up a time to chat and feature BNB Chain in a Cointelegraph article,” linking to an X account under the same name with more than 6, 000 followers. It’s a textbook impostor play: borrowing a newsroom’s credibility, promising coverage and moving targets into private direct messages (DMs) where the scam continues. Read more.
City of Titans spends Q3 on the ‘monotonous’ but necessary work of game engine updates
“How was your work day, sweetie?” ask followers of the still-developing superhero MMORPG City of Titans. “Monotonous, but good,” replies Missing Worlds Media in its latest quarterly progress report, which is a bit disheartening to hear but still at least good to know that some progress was being made, even if it involved work that [.].
TLC Tragedy: Three Beloved Reality Stars Dead In Car Crash and Several Others Injured… as Family Members Beg Fans for ‘Continued Prayers’
Three members of the ‘Meet The Putmans’ family — ‘Papa’ Bill Putman, Neenee and Aunt Megan — died in a car crash.
Instagram hits 3 billion Monthly Active Users
Instagram has reached 3 billion Monthly Active Users, joining Facebook and WhatsApp as a Meta-owned app with this milestone, as confirmed by Mark Zuckerberg.
World ending today? People are quitting jobs, selling off belongings
Many in South Africa have allegedly quit their jobs and sold off their belongings, like cars, after a pastor prophesied that the world will end on September 23.
The New York Times
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