Mark Cuban Warns About Fake Fundraisers on Social Media After Assassination Attempt: 'Makes Things Worse'

Jul 16, 2024 12:16 AM - 4 months ago 98886

Mark Cuban warned his followers astir bad actors aft his Google relationship was hacked and now, nan billionaire is making different online plea — beware of calamity scammers.

Cuban took to X connected Sunday day to pass his followers against bots and clone accounts crossed societal media pursuing nan assassination effort of erstwhile President Donald Trump connected Saturday.

I cognize immoderate group whitethorn opportunity it's not nan correct clip to stock this. But, I don't deliberation anyone disagrees that location are a batch of bots and clone accounts connected societal media.

When calamity and horrific events for illustration nan assassination effort connected erstwhile President Trump happens, it brings… https://t.co/DgiOd0r6Y8

— Mark Cuban (@mcuban) July 14, 2024

"When calamity and horrific events for illustration nan assassination effort connected erstwhile President Trump happens, it brings retired these accounts to make things worse and grift," Cuban wrote.

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Cuban past reposted a thread by AI master Josh Olin pointing to respective clone GoFundMe pages that were already allegedly "raising costs for victims" injured during nan Trump 2024 rally successful Butler, Pennsylvania.

"They've built an elaborate web consisting of galore actors and immoderate AI agents you deliberation are real, you deliberation are your friends," Olin wrote. "It's not conscionable X, by nan way. It's each of large tech. LinkedIn is really scary now; group are applying to jobs for clone companies that salary to station existent ads, forming convincing shells conscionable to scrape exertion information or, worse, scam an applicant."

Expecting online pushback, he admitted that immoderate mightiness deliberation it wasn't nan "right time" to make a statement.

Last month, Cuban warned his followers aft his Gmail relationship was hacked. Scammers locked him retired of his affiliated Google accounts aft claiming to beryllium customer support.

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"Someone was really blase successful doing this," Cuban told The Dallas Morning News astatine nan time. "They recovered a measurement to get into 1 of my Google apps. So my Google Account showed maine notifications that location was an chartless instrumentality utilizing 1 of my Google apps."

Cuban was granted entree backmost to his accounts nan adjacent day.