If You Can Read This, You’re About to Get Scammed
Did you find this article by typing in the name of a website associated with Elon Musk? Did it sound like you could invest in SpaceX, Neuralink, or one of Musk’s AI ventures like Grok and xAI? It’s fake. It’s 100%, without a doubt, completely fake.
I know you may not believe it, but please read on. Because this article could save you from losing a lot of money. Elon Musk is a very wealthy man. He’s worth $500 billion, according to Forbes, making him the wealthiest person on the planet. But Musk does not have a website dedicated to making other people rich.
You may have seen an ad on Facebook or maybe a video on Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube. It may have even looked like Elon Musk was talking about some amazing investment opportunity. Maybe it looked like Elon was raising money for a sick child. You may have even been asked to send money through gift cards or a bitcoin ATM. But it was fake. You need to believe us. Because it’s true.
Musk does not have a website selling cryptocurrencies. He doesn’t have a website for trading stocks. He doesn’t have a public website selling shares of his private companies like SpaceX, Neuralink, xAI, and X. The promotional video you saw is fake and probably used artificial intelligence tools to make it look like Elon Musk was saying something he never said.
People are losing millionsDid someone reach out to you on a social media site like Facebook or Instagram claiming to be Elon? Did they tell you to talk with them over Signal or Telegram or WhatsApp? That person is a scammer. Elon Musk does not reach out to people on websites and ask them for money. And if they haven’t already asked you to send money, that part is coming.
Again, you might be skeptical. A lot of people want to believe that Elon Musk is offering ways for the average person to become rich. But he’s not. Among other reasons, he doesn’t have time.
Here at Gizmodo, we’ve written about scammers impersonating Elon Musk for years.
- There was the woman in Washington who lost $63,000 because she thought she was talking to Elon.
- There was the man in North Carolina who drained his 401k of over half a million dollars.
- There was the person who lost over $18,000 watching a video livestream they thought was for Tesla.
- There was also the Florida principal who sent an Elon Musk scammer a check for $100,000.
People have literally been losing millions of dollars to scammers over the years because they thought they were investing in something approved by Elon Musk. But it was all fake.
Scam AI VideosIt’s incredible what can be accomplished with AI these days. You can make people appear to say things they never said. For example, here’s an ad we spotted below. Elon never said any of that.
Fake Elon WebsitesAll of the websites below are scams. And while Gizmodo is often reluctant to advertise the web domains of scammers, because it risks inadvertently driving more people to scammy websites, using the names of the scams is the only way to help get the word out that these specific websites will steal your money.
And this list only scratches the surface. These are some of the domains that have been reported to the FTC, but there are so many more out there.
- ceomusk.org [SCAM]
- elonbitcoin.fun [SCAM]
- elonchristmas.com [SCAM]
- fastmars.net [SCAM]
- investmuskspace.icu [SCAM]
- marshome.us [SCAM]
- marsway.net [SCAM]
- marsyox.com [SCAM]
- marsvalue.net [SCAM]
- myteslatoken.com [SCAM]
- official2xMusk.com [SCAM]
- shippingteslamail.com [SCAM]
- tesla-clubs.com [SCAM]
- tesla-prize-x.com [SCAM]
- teslaminingprogram.com [SCAM]
- teslaminingplatform.aphatrad.com [SCAM]
- teslaoption.com [SCAM]
- teslapresale.net [SCAM]
- tesla.token-presale.org [SCAM]
- teslatoken-presale.online [SCAM]
- telsaxmarketing.com [SCAM]
- tsla-marketspro.com [SCAM]
- teslgets.com [SCAM]
- tsl-xspace.pw [SCAM]
- x-coin-platform.io [SCAM]
There are also scams that you may know by various names that aren’t dedicated websites, but are being spread through social media platforms. Some of the common ones we’ve seen are below.
- Elon Musk Fan Page Membership Card
- Elon Musk x Donald Trump Crypto Giveaway
- Space Stock Mining
- Tesla Bitcoin
- Tesla Token
- Tesla Mining
- Neuralink Crypto Token
- SpaceX Token
Maybe someone sent you this article. Maybe you found it through Google. Please know that visiting these websites and “investing” in them will only lead you to heartache and pain.
The people who’ve been scammed at these sites often feel foolish afterward. And we don’t want you to feel foolish. We want you to avoid just handing your money away for nothing.
If you’re interested in investing, there are plenty of reputable places to do that. You can even invest in Musk’s company, Tesla, if you want to buy stock in that company through a reputable stockbroker. All investing involves risks, but the websites we’ve featured here aren’t just risks where you might make some money or you might lose some money.
If you give any of these websites your money, you will only lose. We promise you.
Have you been scammed and want to tell your story? You can email the author of this article at [email protected].
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