A Snopes investigation has revealed that a Facebook profile with the fake name Ethan David Rosenberg has been attempting to run a crypto scam since at least August 2021.
The crypto profile pretended to be a real economist and market strategist named David Rosenberg. The profile posted multiple photographs and videos of Rosenberg in an effort to convince victims that it was him managing the posts for the fake crypto investment opportunity. The scheme asked users to contact the page using Messenger, where after a lot of chatting, the person would try to lure money out of potential victims.
We asked the scammer for the wallet address. The response was this: “32eCbchcNBEYWtDWVuKXeDNJ4rcXoKC5LW.” According to Blockchain.com, the scammer’s wallet had “received a total of 3.40897789 BTC ($143,586.97).”
We confirmed with Rosenberg’s company, Rosenberg Research, that he had nothing to do with the scammer’s Facebook profile, bitcoin, or anything regarding any cryptocurrency.
The Facebook profile for the crypto scam had just over 150 friends. Meanwhile, Rosenberg’s real and legitimate Twitter profile has more than 161,000 followers. One of his tweets from February showed his opposition to investing in digital currency, saying that “crypto was never a currency you could rely on in troubled times.”
The plunge in the Bitcoin/Gold ratio is testament to the view that crypto was never a currency (‘asset class’??) you could rely on in troubled times. Neither…
