Fox Business correspondent was convicted of promoting fake distribution XRP – Bits Media

Fox Business Senior Correspondent tried to criticize Ripple, At the same time, by accidentally spreading fraudulent tweet on the distribution of XRP tokens.

Charles Gasparino (Charles Gasparino) Commented on tweet, published from the account of scammers. There was Written, that the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange has repeatedly placed XRP on the platform and announced the free distribution of the coin as a sign of gratitude to the XRP community.

In the comments, Gasparino wrote, that XRP and Ripple now live a "separate life". Twit Gasparino has already scored about 597,5 thousands of views. Twitter users showed him, that the journalist quoted scammers, thereby even more extending the post of attackers. Supporters of XRP announced, that Gasparino earned the title of "greatest laughing stock in the history of Fox News".

However, Ripple Technical Director David Schwartz (David Schwartz) stood up for Fox journalist, Explaining, that now it is very difficult to distinguish a fake Twitter user from the present. Attackers began to lure people more often in their schemes through accounts with a blue checkmark, which previously proved the authenticity of the account.

“Sorry, that there is no way to determine, What are genuine accounts, And which are not. Then people would not fool like such a meaningless misinformation ", —
Set the top manager Ripple.

Last week, David Schwartz has already warned about fake distributions of XRP coins. These schemes are organized by scammers, Those who want to take advantage of the hype around the partial victory of Ripple in trial with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).