A QAnon Telegram channel with 125k subscribers has turned into an Elon Musk Bitcoin scam. This channel used to be called Great Awakening, but now it's pushing out advance-free fraud stuff instead.
The same blockchain address was previously used by the fake General Hyten telegram account, which suggests that both were operated by the same person, who's just switched from QAnon stuff to Bitcoin scams.
The same scammer operates at least one more known channel which I noticed in February.
At times, all these channels have posted links to Paypal and other accounts, asking for donations to fight the Deep State etc. I doubt he gets very much but free money is free money.
shout-out to @Shayan86 who called the link between the fake Hyten account and the fake Q account
Looks like the Bitcoin wallet of the scammer has had deposits of 0.282 BTC today, which is around $16,500. Most of this appears to be from scam victims.
As predicted, the other channel controlled by this scammer has now gone full scam too. But at least Telegram has labelled both channels as scams.
In the meantime, the scammer has made another $20k worth of Bitcoin.
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From UK Govt presentation on the AstraZeneca vaccine: when virus prevalence is low (lower than current UK numbers) the balance of risk under-30s between Covid and the vaccine is about even over a 16-week period. For 30+, the vaccine wins hands down.
For a moderate prevalence (60 cases per 100k, which some regions of the UK have), the benefit of the vaccine is clearer at all age groups. It's even starker at peak UK incidence in the previous wave.
England's deputy CMO, Jonathan Van Tam, stresses that these slides only look at a 16-week Covid wave — in reality, the vaccine is likely to continue to protect for months, shifting the balance back towards the vaccine.
Trump's new slogan "the best is yet to come" is a dog-whistle for parts of his hardcore base (including, but not just, QAnon) that still think the 2020 election will be overturned and he'll return in glory.
Trump's used "the best is yet to come" again in his statement yesterday. Over on TheDonald, a handful of people are excited and think it's a signal.
Others, though, have had enough. These are the people who believed Trump had won and would still be declared President in January. They trusted the plan that they assumed Trump had, and they're angry.
In the last few days there's been a rumour spreading in QAnon circles that Bill Gates bought Telegram for $600M. This rumour has spread before but it seems to have gained steam this time.
Most of the big QAnon influencers hang out on Telegram, so this rumour is a threat to them and they need to shut it down. Here's IET telling the 210k members of a QAnon Telegram channel that Bill Gates didn't buy Telegram. And their reaction?
A bunch of people respond "Of course Bill Gates didn't buy Telegram. Everyone knows Bill Gates is dead and was executed in India in 2013".
This very obvious modern fake really shouldn't have got any media coverage, especially in Israeli media. They should know better. jpost.com/judaism/2500-y…
Nonsense writing that looks a bit like square-script Hebrew if you can't read Hebrew (2k years ago), with something resembling Tiberian-style pointing (1500-1000 years ago) and Stars of David (a modern Jewish symbol) everywhere... I mean, really.
A QAnon Telegram channel claiming to be run by JFK Jr has 176k subscribers despite the broken English and the memes. In one post, "JFK Jr" says that Princess Diana, Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Jim Morrison are part of the Q team.
I'm consistently surprised by just how low-effort some of these QAnon channels are. But then I remind myself that by 2020 the actual Q posts were just as lazy and unconvincing