I do not feel safe on X at this moment.
So I locked my account. All my tweets there are private for people who do not follow me, and I will probably keep this setting for at least until tomorrow.
Someone threatened me, that they will put an army of bots to destroy my account.
Why? Because it is a compromised account that I used to follow on X and we got together on an X group chat, where I wrote that we should report this account .. so he started threatening me. He said more bad things... and I tried to take this up to X safety team.
What I realized?
That even though I am a subscribed account (paying X for the blue tick), this does not mean that I get any more respect. Noone is really safe on X - from harassment, from compromised accounts etc...
This is the message I got in the group chat
https://x.com/katerinaramm1/status/2033824375133114470
I asked for Grok to advise, and a link was suggested where I should report the threat.
They asked for images that should be X links - but it was not possible to add screenshot or group chat link.
A short while later I received this - no violation of rules appears to be.
https://x.com/katerinaramm1/status/2033858563848683830/photo/1
This is the reason I decided to check again my 2FA and to make my account private for now, until I make sure this is over.
In addition to this, some well known accounts in the crypto community had their accounts compromised. And they are striving to get their accounts back.
All with the blue tick.
And it is ok that X needs sometime to investigate, I understand that they receive many many requests all the time.
But what I really do not understand is WHY they do not block reported persons dms, until the case is resolved. As long as the compromised/hacked account has full access to the X (or other) account, they can still send messages and lure more victims and this thing will continue spreading without any stop.
I am really sorry for this...
I really feel safer on Hive & inLeo - I was talking to a friend today explaining the reputation system.
I send you my wishes to please stay safe
Do not click links and do not trust messages asking to hire you or inviting you to a zoom link, or anything similar - even if they come by people you know well!!
This is a scam message I received yesterday
Let's make a test now
Would you click it?
How many red flags (if any) can you count?
The answer tomorrow :)
Stay safe!