People, please please please listen closely: #ElonMusk is not giving away Ether. Scammers have swarmed Twitter in recent weeks in an attempt to trick people out of their hard-earned #cryptocurrency, and as a particular #tweet today makes clear they're having a lot of success. SEE ALSO: Has Elon Musk finally ... cracked? The scam itself is incredibly simple, and starts with someone #famous tweeting out some random statement. Like this, for example: That's when the #scammers come in. Someone, with a Twitter account designed to mimic the famous person's, posts a reply promising free #bitcoin, ether, or some other cryptocurrency. All you supposedly need to do to be on the receiving end of this potential #bonanza is send a little ether to a provided address. See where this is going? "To #celebrate this, I'm giving awaу 5,000 #ЕTH to my followers," reads once such reply from @elonlmusk (notice the extra "L"). "To pаrtiсipаte, just sеnd 0.5-1 ЕTH to the address bеlow and gеt 5-10 ЕTH back to the address you used for the transaсtion." #savethatmoney #Blockchain #coinbase #bitcoinacademy #bitcoinnews #bitcoinuk #bitcoinprogress