If you get a DM on X saying "vote for me," it is a scam. It will ask for your login credentials for X. At that point, kiss you X account goodbye FOREVER, because X will NOT allow you to recover it.
It happened to me, too. @SaiKate108 recently requested me to vote for her and, thankfully, I had the presence of mind to check the URL before acting on it. The URL was from a website known to be associated with scams. Now her X page is being filled with "get rich quick with crypto" posts. I hope the real Kat A can figure out a way to get her account back!
Thanks for the heads up, Steve (and thanks for everything else you do, too!)...
X is a casino gulag, will never change. Elawn has a captive batch of creators and the audience is relegated to near streaming like experience. Filtered reach is like watching TV.
Not related, but I permanently lost my X account when I mentioned that most Russian soldiers will lose their lives in Ukraine, which as we all know is a true statement. I've appealed to no end. Wish I knew a way to go back. Have a feeling if I could personally tell this to Musk he'd reinstate me, but X is still ran by left wing whack jobs in my opinion.
Do you have the original notification from X that gives you the option to delete it to reinstate access? I had to, and mine was a true quotation (Lyndon Baines Johnson), but that was under the original commie control.
This was from years ago. I seem to remember they gave me that option when I made come other comments that "didn't follow community standards" , but in this case they shut me off, and it was Twitter at the time prior to Musk. I liked to repost on Twitter material such as Steve Kirsch, but got in trouble when I expressed my own opinion.
X, apparently needs a history of account changes so you can request they revert the account to last week or whatever instead of requiring verification of the current information.
Any idea how the hack works? Is whatever "vote" button they provide actually giving X login permission or something?
That is awful!! I got that DM from Welcome to the Eagle and figured it was a scam so ignored it. Then got the same message from another person, which corroborated my suspicions. I wasn't sure how to notify them since I figured the scammer was controlling their accounts. This is insidious, and I can only hope X will do the right thing and restore their accounts.
Social media is the cesspool of human relations.
Thanx!
And it’s that guy’s programmers who set up the new social security verification hell. It makes sense now.
Fantastic public announcement. Gracias!
Suggesting use of ivermectin for onchocersiasis or any other human use will get you permanently suspended from "X".
It happened to me, too. @SaiKate108 recently requested me to vote for her and, thankfully, I had the presence of mind to check the URL before acting on it. The URL was from a website known to be associated with scams. Now her X page is being filled with "get rich quick with crypto" posts. I hope the real Kat A can figure out a way to get her account back!
Thanks for the heads up, Steve (and thanks for everything else you do, too!)...
If wonderful accounts like Prof Norman Fenton's become nothing but scam crypto posts, X will be worthless. More than it already is.....
Excuse me?
Since when does voting for someone require forking over login creds?
If ppl are such easy prey on this, NO WONDER the mRNA jabs received such WIDESPREAD ACCEPTANCE. #PureBlood here BTW.
The preferences and security functions are there for a reason! Use 'em! LOL
Re: Pureblood
Me too, I can honestly say I never complied with any "suggestions" or mandates, and I worked all the elections. Never even got a sniffle.
exactly
Thousand thanks for the warning!
X is a casino gulag, will never change. Elawn has a captive batch of creators and the audience is relegated to near streaming like experience. Filtered reach is like watching TV.
Not related, but I permanently lost my X account when I mentioned that most Russian soldiers will lose their lives in Ukraine, which as we all know is a true statement. I've appealed to no end. Wish I knew a way to go back. Have a feeling if I could personally tell this to Musk he'd reinstate me, but X is still ran by left wing whack jobs in my opinion.
Elon Musk is a left wing whack job. The new boss is same as the old boss (Jack Dorsey).
Yet Musk ran DOGE and contributes to Republicans
Why hasn't he reinstated my "X" account? I've appealed, but 5 years now.
Do you have the original notification from X that gives you the option to delete it to reinstate access? I had to, and mine was a true quotation (Lyndon Baines Johnson), but that was under the original commie control.
This was from years ago. I seem to remember they gave me that option when I made come other comments that "didn't follow community standards" , but in this case they shut me off, and it was Twitter at the time prior to Musk. I liked to repost on Twitter material such as Steve Kirsch, but got in trouble when I expressed my own opinion.
There is an option to create a new account. New information and VPN, new cell number ( I use a masked one), and slightly change your name?
Wow!!!!!!!!
I’ve received two of these.
I clucked the link on one and saw that it required a login and I ignored that.
Just got another.
Much appreciated!
X, apparently needs a history of account changes so you can request they revert the account to last week or whatever instead of requiring verification of the current information.
Any idea how the hack works? Is whatever "vote" button they provide actually giving X login permission or something?
the vote button hosts a form from THEIR site so they get your credentials. phishing.
That is awful!! I got that DM from Welcome to the Eagle and figured it was a scam so ignored it. Then got the same message from another person, which corroborated my suspicions. I wasn't sure how to notify them since I figured the scammer was controlling their accounts. This is insidious, and I can only hope X will do the right thing and restore their accounts.
Btw, I sent you a legit message on X in December 2025. Did you get it?
I knew those nude pics weren’t you! lol
Those two individuals didn’t turn on Two Factor Auth. With that on Scams become obvious.