X Battles Fraudsters Over Mislinked Posts

Users of Social Network X Face Unexpected Problem

Users of the social network X are faced with an unexpected problem: clicking on external links in posts, they do not fall on these sites, but on completely different resources.

The situation caused concern after a discovery that an advertisement promising to transfer to the Forbes website actually redirects users to a Telegram account associated with dubious cryptocurrency schemes.

An example of redirecting to the fraudulent account Telegram.

The reason for this phenomenon lies in the method that.

In X, users publish public messages and communicate with other users. X has a large audience around the world and is included in the top 10 most visited sites.

X is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation for repeated violation of legislation.

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