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Thousands of fake employees claiming to work for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) have been running a scamming network designed to lure people into financial traps according to a report from the MIT Technology Review that uses information gathered by a columnist working for Financial Times China. The ‘accounts’ claim to work for the American company, after having graduated from top universities in both the U.S. and China. They are part of an elaborate network of fake LinkedIn accounts that have managed to trick people out of large sums of amount, which in one case amounted to an eye-watering $1 million.
Fake SpaceX LinkedIn Accounts Claim To Have Spent Decades In The U.S But List Down Profile Information In Chinese
The report cites information from Jeff Li, who writes for the Financial Times China and is based out of Toronto, Canada. A YouTube report from Li in July this year shared thousands of profiles on LinkedIn that allegedly belonged to individuals working for SpaceX and claimed to have graduated from U.S. and Chinese universities.
The trend was even reported on the Chinese social media network Weibo, with one user sharing a local publication’s report of graduates from China’s Tsinghua University, and others calling the ‘SpaceX employees’ traitors and even stating that…
