Crypto scammers approach X employees with bribes 

A group of crypto scammers approached X employees with bribes, requesting to reinstate suspended accounts. The social media platform X (aka Twitter) has taken the necessary steps to expose this gang. 

Some crypto scammers, whose X accounts were suspended, used middlemen to approach X employees with bribes. By trying to strike a deal under the table, the scammers tried to request that the suspension on their accounts be lifted. 

Global Government Affairs, which is the voice of X, reported: “X has exposed and is taking strong action against a bribery network targeting our platform.”

The ‘perpetrators’ are notorious for exploiting “other social media networks such as Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Minecraft, and Roblox, and are linked to wider criminal organizations, including ‘The Com,” stated X. 

Hacker Com, one of three subsets of the growing and evolving online threat group known as The Com, short for The Community, came under the radar of the FBI in July 2025. To raise awareness among the public about this criminal group, the FBI put out a statement. 

According to the announcement, the Hacker Com group was involved in “distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks, compromise of personally identifiable information, sale of government email accounts, ransomware attacks, phishing, malware development and deployment, cryptocurrency theft, computer intrusions, and subscriber identity module (SIM) swapping.

To engage in these illicit activities, “Hacker Com actors use tools such as: remote access trojans, phishing kits, voice over internet protocol (VOIP) providers, voice modulators, virtual private networks (VPNs), spoofing technology, cryptocurrency cash out services, live streaming services, and encrypted email domains to facilitate their criminal activity and conceal their true identities.” 

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center’s (IC3)  2024 annual report, which combines information from 859,532 complaints of suspected internet crime, more than $16 billion was lost– a 33% increase from 2023.  

“Phishing/spoofing, extortion, and personal data breaches were among the top three cyber crimes, by number of complaints reported by victims in 2024. 

Most of the complaints reported were from California, Texas, and Florida, with people over the age of 60 suffering the most losses at nearly $5 billion.