Benzinga | Jul 15, 2020 05:02PM EDT

Elon Musk's Twitter Potentially Hacked, With Multiple Strange Bitcoin Tweets

Strange tweets sent Wednesday from Elon Musk's official Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) account give the impression the billionaire Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO billionaire's account was hacked.

The tweets said that Mus would double any bitcoin payments sent to a published Bitcoin address. Theyhave since been deleted.

Twitter often has problems with Musk impersonators responding to the CEO's tweets claiming bitcoin giveaways and other scams.

But this apparent scam comes directly from Musk's verified account. Musk has posted tweets about the cryptocurrency Dogecoin in the past.

Benzinga's Take: Musk has complained about Twitter's ability to control bots in the past. Now it appears hackers have gained access to Musk's account and are flooding Twitter with scam tweets.

You should never send money to anyone in this manner over the internet, even when it comes from a verified account, as it is almost always a scam.

Photo courtesy of Tesla.