If you see us make a funky Twitter post, always check the username!

Anyone on Twitter can call themselves absolutely anything they want. Their display name can read “The Real Elvis Presley (not dead)” or “McDonalds” or, hey, “CryptoKitties”, even if they’re not affiliated in any way with anyone but their pet cat Sprinkles.

And, sadly, scammers make Twitter accounts that look like us a lot. They make their display name CryptoKitties, and then create a username that’s hard to differentiate from us (@cryptokities, for instance, or @crytokitties). Once they open the account, the first thing they do is block the actual @cryptokitties account, so we can’t see any of their posts.

These scam posts usually announce they’re running a contest (probably for free ETH) and in order to join, you just have to send them some ETH as a sign-up fee.

We report these scammers to Twitter as soon as we’re made aware of them, which usually happens pretty quickly (because you guys are awesome!), but if you see a post like this, please mark the Tweet as spam. The more times that happens, the quicker Twitter jumps on deleting the account!

Let’s pretend that @wrenhandman is a scammer. They’ve commented on our post with some pretty racey comments.

Click on the down arrow next to the Tweet, and select “Report Tweet.”

Choose “It’s spam” and click Next to start the reporting process. Twitter will flag the account as spam, and if they get enough of those reports they’ll quickly take the account down.

Sadly, as soon as we get one spam account taken down, another quickly appears in its place. But for now, getting each one individually removed is the best we can do. So practice caution, remember that we will never, ever ask you to send us ether directly, and never share your private key!

And if you are on Twitter, follow us to check out our latest Fancy Cat clues, or keep up to date on product information.