@crypto_pump00 (X)

The account name states the scheme. "Crypto Pump" runs a Bitcoin giveaway — "Giving away 0.1 $BTC to a random person. Like, retweet and comment 'BTC' to enter" — from an X-verified profile. The verified badge is doing most of the work here. It is a paid subscription, not an identity check, and it is the single most effective legitimacy signal available to a scam account for the price of a monthly fee. Entrants who comment are then contacted privately, where the pattern is either a fee to release the prize or a link to a site that asks for a seed phrase or a wallet connection. A seed phrase handed over is an unrecoverable loss. 17 community reports are matched to this identifier.

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1. 1Announce a specific Bitcoin amount with a comment-to-enter mechanic.
2. 2Let the paid verification badge supply the credibility.
3. 3Direct-message entrants with the "you won" follow-up.
4. 4Request a release fee, a wallet connection, or a seed phrase.

• Public giveaway posts with comment-to-enter mechanics.
• Profile is X-verified and used for giveaway promotion.
• 17 independent community reports matched to this identifier.

Limits of this evidence: No legitimate service ever needs your seed phrase or recovery words. Anyone who asks is stealing.

• Giveaway scam: "Giving away 0.1 $BTC to a random person! [...] Like, retweet and comment 'BTC' to enter." This is a common tactic to phish for engagement and then direct users to scam websites or request seed phrases/private keys
• Profile name "Crypto Pump" (Crypto Pump) is associated with pump-and-dump schemes, typically illegal manipulation of markets
• Verified badge used for scam legitimacy: The profile is X verified but used for scam activity

• Handle uses high-risk crypto/trading keywords commonly seen in scam accounts
• Posts about market sentiment such as "IT'S OVER." and celebrity endorsements like "ERIC TRUMP SAID GOLD PROFITS WILL START TO ROTATE INTO BITCOIN SOON 🚀" are attempts to manipulate market sentiment and create FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

A post promises free tokens, a prize draw, or that any crypto you send will come back multiplied. Entry requires reposting and dropping your wallet address in the replies. The address harvest is the real product: it feeds later dusting, phishing and targeted approaches, and anyone who actually sends funds never sees them again.

• "Send X, get 2X back" — no legitimate exchange has ever run this
• Asks you to post your wallet address publicly
• A countdown or a "only 5 winners" scarcity hook
• Replies are filled with fake winners posting thanks

• FTC — Cryptocurrency giveaway and celebrity-impersonation scams
• FBI IC3 — Cryptocurrency fraud reporting

Sources and method

• X — Premium and verification

  Verification is a paid subscription, not an identity guarantee.

• FTC — What to know about cryptocurrency and scams

  Giveaways requiring an upfront payment are always fraud.

• GACS social scanner

  Our scanner reads the public profile and recent posts, scores the behavioural signals, and re-checks the account on a schedule so a listing reflects current behaviour, not a single moment.

• Primary observation

  The page or profile this listing was created from.

• 17 community reports

  Independent submissions from people who ran into this. Reports are matched on the identifier, not the name, so renaming does not reset the count.

Checked against our live signals at listing time and re-checked whenever the identifier appears in a new report or feed update. This listing has also been reviewed by hand: the narrative above was written from the observed evidence, not generated. If you believe this listing is wrong, you can appeal it and we will re-check the evidence.