{"id":66730,"date":"2022-09-06T11:56:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T08:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=66730"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T23:51:54","slug":"fake-bitcoin-farm-on-twitter-raises-100000-in-two-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/fake-bitcoin-farm-on-twitter-raises-100000-in-two-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Bitcoin farm on Twitter raises $100,000 in two hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Twitter DeFi researcher FatManTerra, as part of an experiment, devised a fake investment scheme and raised more than $100,000 in Bitcoin in a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Inspired by Lady of Crypto, a while ago I pitched my own investment scheme to Twitter\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In two hours, I received over one hundred DMs. I raised 3.45 BTC from Twitter and 2 BTC from Discord \u2014 over $100k, with more requests flooding in by the minute.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s a little twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FatMan (@FatManTerra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FatManTerra\/status\/1566816032295100416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>FatManTerra is followed by more than 101,000 people. He is known as a former supporter of Terra, who now actively voices opposition to the project after its <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/spiral-smerti-terra-kak-i-pochemu-luna-i-ust-poterpeli-krah\/\">$40 billion collapse in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On September 5 he posted a tweet about allegedly gaining access to a &#8216;high-yield Bitcoin farm&#8217; from an unnamed fund, and invited followers to join <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/yield-farming-theory-and-practice\">farming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Received access to a high-yield BTC farm based on a private carry trade operated by an up-and-coming fund. I&#8217;ve maxed out what I could, so there&#8217;s some leftover allocation and I thought I&#8217;d pass it along \u2014 priority will be given to UST victims. DM for more details if interested.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FatMan (@FatManTerra) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FatManTerra\/status\/1566764411230081025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>FatManTerra deliberately did not disclose further details of the investment scheme, but even without this information he managed, within a couple of hours, to raise Bitcoin worth more than $100,000.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I want to send a clear signal to everyone in the crypto world \u2014 anyone who promises you easy money is lying. Influencers selling quick-trading courses or promising handsome investment opportunities deceive you,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FatManTerra asserts that he has returned all the money to users.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the experiment was inspired by the Lady of Crypto account, which has been accused of promoting dubious investment schemes among 257,500 followers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, ForkLog reported that attackers hacked the PwC Venezuela auditor firm&#8217;s Twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/hackers-stage-a-fake-xrp-giveaway-on-behalf-of-pwc-venezuela-subsidiary\">to promote a fake XRP giveaway<\/a> on behalf of Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular Twitter DeFi researcher FatManTerra, as part of an experiment, devised a fake investment scheme and raised $100,000 in Bitcoin in two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,1377,40],"class_list":["post-66730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-profitable-farming","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"16","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66732,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66730\/revisions\/66732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}