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Understanding the Cryptocurrency Free Giveaway Scam Disseminated on Twitter Lists. (arXiv:2306.10634v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)
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This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the cryptocurrency free
giveaway scam disseminated in a new distribution channel, Twitter lists. To
collect and detect the scam in this channel, unlike existing scam detection
systems that rely on manual effort, this paper develops a fully automated scam
detection system, \textit{GiveawayScamHunter}, to continuously collect lists
from Twitter and utilize a Nature-Language-Processing (NLP) model to
automatically detect the free giveaway scam and extract the scam cryptocurrency
address.
By running \textit{GiveawayScamHunter} from June 2022 …
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