Realme Twitter Support account briefly hacked, used for crypto scam under Tesla’s name

Realme now seems to have restored its official support account on Twitter.

Realme’s official support account on Twitter fell prey to a cryptocurrency scam for a brief time. Hackers got hold of the official verified Twitter account with the handle @realmecareIN temporarily and used it to lure people who were on Elon Musk’s threads into the scam. Although Realme now seems to have restored the account, hackers changed the name of the account from Realme India Support to a stylised version of Tesla where each letter had spaces between them. Since the account was verified, it gave hackers confidence to use it for the Bitcoin scam. Tipster Ishan Agarwal has posted screenshots of what the hacked Twitter account of Realme India online support looked like. Only the profile name was changed to “: T e s l a ”, while everything else, such as the number of followers and accounts followed, remained the same. Hackers did not exploit the account using new tweets. Instead, they went to Elon Musk’s profile and began spamming his tweets with a message that looked extremely phoney. This message had a link, which, I presume, was the gateway to the scam. Since Realme seemingly restored the profile at the time of writing, we could not verify the details.