When I made this video several years ago, I didn’t necessarily think that later on this was going to happen to me and I was going to be able to save all my crypto. In today’s live stream recap, we’ll be talking about the Twitter hack that happened this past weekend, how it happened, what could’ve happened, and how it could all have been prevented. DON’T let this happen to you!
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0:00 Intro
0:39 What Happened?
3:11 To Those Who Lost Money
7:53 My Old SIM Swapping Video
10:22 Verizon Store Visit
17:36 Key Takeaway
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This will probably be the most important Video you guys ever watch Um to be honest with you When I made this video several years ago I didn't necessarily think that later on This was going to happen to me and I was Going to be able to save all my crypto Now I was hacked this weekend A lot of People lost money seven hundred thousand Dollars I think got sent to the hacker Address okay Zach xbt which we're going To look at in just a minute he already Confirmed that it was the same hackers That got John Dean which I guys this is Why I made on the video people were like Somebody wrote like oh Big Boy's so Braggadocious he said he's gonna sleep Like a baby he's going to get his Twitter account back like yeah obviously Guys because they got Steve Aoki they Got John Dean like this is a trend here This is not something that is Um you know that just happened off the Wall they've been bragging about this Stuff that they were going to do it to People and so It obviously was a you know a Twitter Hack I didn't know at the time I was SIM Card swapped so here's what happened so Friday I got uh what is called email Bombed which is where somebody uh Basically started sending a ton signing Up my email account to a ton of Different things right spam everywhere
Now we fixed it uh Allison's good Alex And had it fixed with by by that Afternoon it was already it was already Over but I got email bombed okay then Saturday Um Saturday evening probably about 8 30 I get text message bombed which is the Same thing somebody has my phone number And they plug it up to this thing that Starts putting all of these uh you know Text messages out they're all spam text Messages right so I mean that's easy you Just go in you you thankfully you can do This now you just couldn't do this on Apple but you go into your messages and You just go put on a filter where you Have the difference between known and Unknown you go to all the unknown emails And you just hit the ellipses and then You the three dots you don't know what That is and then you hit Mark all and Then you delete it's very easy to stay In front of it started happening at 8 30. all this is relevant you guys are Going to understand what the process That happened here so about 9 30 I get a Call through an app that I have not Through my regular phone okay and it is Uh it's Cassie who's the CEO of uh Bitcoin and she says your Twitter Account's been hacked I was like oh crap You know this is horrible so Um I I go try to log in obviously it's Gone she starts sending a screenshots
What they were posting We got people in The office start retweeting and doing The whole thing Um and she caught it within three Seconds so we were right on it Immediately now we didn't catch the hack In three seconds the first time they Posted that was when we saw stuff okay Now I'm thinking it's not it's not a Huge deal the Twitter account got hacked We're obviously gonna get it back but People are losing money and look I won't Be frank with you guys I'm gonna be real Frank with everybody that lost money it Was your fault you clicked a link you Didn't trust now I have to say that We're gonna do our bet we're gonna try Some things to pay people back okay even Though this was gonna happen I already See it we're going to go on Twitter We're going to come up with a way Whether it's through a uh paying part of It with Bitcoin but you know maybe we do A GoFundMe or something similar to that Have an address people can donate money To and and we use that to pay people off We're also gonna be suing Verizon which I'll explain in a minute we are going to Be suing Verizon a hundred percent Um and part of that will be hopefully to Get the money back to pay people back However we'd like to figure out a way to Do it before that because we can do it Before that people are able to get their
Same funds if it's two years down the Road when this lawsuit is over and they Settle with us then I'm I could only pay You back the amount that you lost at the Time most likely unless this we balloon This up and we considered the crypto Which could be complicated in a court System okay so we're do we are going to Do everything we can and I can already See it now because oh he's trying to pay People back but he he must have done it Himself blah blah blah blah blah I can't Win on the internet you guys know that There's there's nothing you do one thing People are going to say you're gonna Have some people love it other people Hate it you the other thing there's Nothing there's nothing there's nothing I can do show me on the dollar I mean You saw the new accusation that anyone Who supports you now or must be a paid a Paid slate yeah which is an oxymoron but You know you you would wonder how it got To be the biggest influencer overall in Crypto but whatever Uh the point is is that Um we're doing our part but but I have To tell you yeah if you sent money in That is your fault guys you got to learn Not to connect your wallets to stuff This is a hard talk because I feel sorry For you I feel sympathy and we're gonna Try to help But just like I learned when I got
Fished back in 2018 I lost what was it At the time a lot of money for me it was Three thousand dollars the the turret Would have turned into 20 30k I think in The Bull Run maybe it was 50k in the Bull Run that I lost and I was already Down bad because of the bear Market I'd Already lost all my money that I made And you know I was down bad But I learned the lesson it was my fault I got fish I clicked something I Shouldn't have clicked guys this is Crypto don't trust verify Guys I I would never do a sale I when I Bought Bitcoin I explained well the Reasons why I bought it is because Then.heath did the sale I can't do a Sale I'm an influencer I've said that Many times and then right after first of All you know we'd like to keep things Family friendly not as much on Twitter The name of the coin was literally Fsec like I wouldn't that's not what I Would do but the fact is guys you've got To learn a lesson through this and so One thing we're we're going to be trying To do is we're not just going to send All the funds back out to the addresses You're gonna have to verify that that's Your address and what we're going to do We're going to come up with some way Where you can take a security course To get your money back Uh because you've got to learn this
Lesson I I feel bad I paid one guy back One guy lost like 10 billion in Bitcoin He was the first guy that lost it said I Can't pay everybody back right now if we Do that we'll blow through the treasury Funds okay that's like seven hundred Thousand dollars of Bitcoin right now is Like about a a quarter I think of what We own in it so like that's used for Treasury and other things So uh we have talked about doing a fund To pay people back already for people to Get hacked and scammed so we're working On it But guys You can't fall for stuff like that Especially this just happened to John Deaton's account it just happened John Dean's account I think on its birthday Which is about a week ago we covered it On the show So a lot of people were just throwing Money out and and their were some Allegations that a lot of that money was Um the hackers themselves sending money Through that account because they uh to Make it look like people were sending Money so people thought it was safe uh I Talked to Zach xbt this morning I sent Him a message about it and he said it Doesn't look like that's probably true What what it looks like it was for the Most part people that went in and Connected their wallets and so I'm sorry
I have sympathy we're going to do Everything we can Um even though it's it's not my Responsibility to do that though I want You guys to understand like I got hacked I was the one that was the victim here And I'm not going to play the victim Role but I was the one that was hacked We're going to talk about what happened With Verizon in just a minute but at the Same time like You got it you gotta learn listen I Didn't lose anything in this and we're Going to talk about why you go back to This SIM card swapping video it's funny Like when you actually click on this Video here Uh what it starts out it's like all Right it's 9 30 on a Saturday night the Funny thing is I got hacked on a Saturday at about 9 30 p.m and that Hilarious that's pretty bad this was Made um let's see what the date on this Was December 5th 2018 December 5th 2018. So about uh what is that four and a half Years ago It's funny the way I started out Randomly it matched my story I don't Think that was done on purpose I don't Think they knew this so it's very Important that I explain this to you Guys to understand how to stay safe Because that's more important than Anything we're going to talk about today
On the show okay guys I would have lost me I was not keeping Any crypto on my phone for a long time Nothing to my phone I I have some on there now right so the Point is I could have lost a lot of Money here okay What happened is Michael Turpin Basically he was uh 24 million dollars He lost in this case this was in Consensus of 2017. so this tells you This is almost exactly as I would have Been in May I think 2017. this is six Years later and the case is just over Michael turbine was hacked for 12 Million dollars he was doing he was Crushing him though I thought he was Crushing him I don't know what happened Here Um this just happened it was 220 million Dollar lawsuit Um is what it was I wonder if they Wonder if they settled at all Uh let's see robbed him oh robbed him of 24 million dollars Uh let's see the scene falls down Assured him only two if they would keep His phone safe Guys this is not right if he lost his Case this is unbelievable that's Absolutely stupid this is unbelievable Because let me tell you Let me tell you Maybe we should do a class action
Against them even though we went but Then we wouldn't get any money to pay People back which we can figure out Another way to pay people I mean part of It needs to just happen just for Awareness yes for how 100 people 100 Percent Foreign Let's go back to the timeline here okay I get email bombed on on Friday I get Text messages bombed Saturday evening Twitter account gets hacked right after That all this place together oh these Hackers thought they had me they did for Sure they thought they had me for sure So here here's what happens I think I Get the Twitter account back I do I do The video Saturday night Sunday I'm Expecting to wake up it's probably all Taken care of it took an extra day not a Huge deal to get the Twitter account Back I take my kid to his ball tournament on Sunday morning he about a left-handed All weekend Steve's now a switch hitter He went like eight for ten left-handed Only someone missed one time super proud Of my kid wow but anyway the point is He's a great ball player point is is That Sunday I get ready to take him as Soon as I leave the wi-fi at the house My phone's not working I immediately knew I was SIM card Swapped because the night before
I didn't realize people were trying to Call me I told that person call me Through an app regular phone wasn't Working I didn't know it and so what Happened is is everybody's trying to Call me and it was you know I wasn't Answering they were actually the hacker Was in possession of my phone number at That time so you were calling them you Weren't actually even calling me okay so I realized what happened I'm like oh my Gosh like I tried Allison's asleep it's Early on a Sunday I also sleeps late Like I do when she doesn't have to be Aware and so I'm like man she's probably Gonna wake up till 10 or 11 like you Know you know she stays up all night Watching Netflix you know uh you know a Lot of hands chose you know a lot a lot Of ring ninjas so I say okay I'm gonna Go drop my kid off his tournament it Which it starts at 10 30. the Verizon Store open at 10. I go in the Verizon Store got guy in the store recognized me Which is kind of cool which made Everything a lot faster he was awesome The people with Verizon store were Awesome I I do want to say that okay the Girl that helped me she was phenomenal She was also bewildered she was very Bewildered she says I've never seen Anything like this account As soon as she pulled up my phone number You didn't have to verify anything
Nothing wow all you have to do is pull Up my phone number and anybody can make Any changes they wanted to it no idea Verification No password verification no pin number Verification which several years ago I Put that on my Verizon account that They're supposed to verify all this Stuff first so She's like Whoa this is weird so we go on because She never seen anything like this before And I tell her I say this is very key Okay I tell her I said if you go watch This video you will see I talk about This I talk about this being organized Crime from the inside of these phone Companies almost all of these high Profile hacks Are inside jobs there's a lot of Evidence to show this and you really got To think this is organized crime at its Best Michael turbin says he actually Believes that there are hundreds of Millions of people involved in this so I Don't know if there's that many that's a Lot but organized crime syndicates are Making these Sim swaps possible they've Got people in place different parts Around the world in order to steal these Numbers I also talk about what Michael Turban discovered which is You literally sign something with your Phone company that says
If an employee at the company Steals from you directly because they Have access to your account through Working there The company is not liable So listen to this if you think to Yourself oh well if I end up getting all My crypto stolen or my bank account Hacked or whatever the case may be and It's proven that someone within the Company within the phone company was Responsible for it that's a slam dunk Lawsuit correct Wrong again while you certainly would Have a chance to get this thrown out a t And I'm assuming many of the other phone Companies actually have a clause within Your contract if you suffer loss via Fraud and it's proven that it is Directly the result of the actions of an At T employee At T is still not responsible for that Is the point there that they're saying You sue the individual that do it did it So listen now this is funny I told her I Said well you know there's a big thing That's where they do to high profile People it happens a lot they use this to Steal cryptos to other stuff and she Says I told her I said this is organized Crime it's the mafia This this is what they do they pay People off inside the the phone store She goes oh that makes a lot of sense is
It really she goes yeah we just went Through a training called don't take the Bribe Oh my goodness They are these phone companies are Literally Doing training with their employees About not accepting bribes from Organized crime to SIM card swap Meanwhile They're doing nothing to prevent it well And you know why companies do trainings Right because something happens and They're very aware of it absolutely so Um uh so yes we we are going to be suing Verizon Michael Turpin was unsuccessful Which really sucks so I'm trying to talk To him Um yeah what says that would not stand In court correct I know that won't stand In court Um 100 percent And I Michael Turpin losing this case Actually even gives us more leg to stand On because civil course precedent Doesn't stand the same way criminal does But the point here is this is that Because of this lawsuit all these phone Companies know that this is going on oh My goodness guys it's not hard all you Have to do is make it to where you need If a phone number is going to get ported It needs to move up the ladder three Rungs get approval three rungs up
The the customer service rep has to do It their manager has to do it and then Their boss's boss has to also verify for A phone number Port that it was verified Correctly It's not hard because here's the thing I Said okay well this is gonna be able to Be tied to an employee correct and she Said No it it just shows up that the system Itself made this change The system itself made the change That doesn't make any sense so this is Getting done to where it's not tied to An employee so so think about this Here's what here's what happens they Send this thing on for on the Friday to My email address they send this thing on Saturday night to my phone number what Are they doing Tim what do you think They're doing by the doing that do you Know They're sending the they're trying to Fish for your phone number they already Have my phone number they're trying to Hide The emails that would say my password Was changed on Twitter or if I get a Text message regarding the same thing uh They're trying to overwhelm it with junk So I couldn't see it I'd already fixed all of it and I saw it However I was on low battery mode so so My my email didn't uh immediately update
I had to refresh it for it to update and Then that's when Cassie called me and Told me what happened so Here's the thing my Twitter account gets Hacked But I don't lose any funds how do I not Lose any funds In this situation Go watch that video Guys I do not have my phone number Or any phone number there is not a phone Number at all That is attached to my Gmail account Or email account you know a corporate Account to run through Gmail there's no Phone numbers that are attached If you go and try to sign up through Google they will try to force you they Make you think you have to attach your Phone number to your email account so Let's play this out If my phone number is attached to my Email account here's here's the way they Thought it was going to happen They go they get inside my account My phone number they have my phone Number They go to Twitter they log in with the Phone number They don't know the passwords they hit Forget password oh and put in your phone Number they put in the phone number log In with a one-time code Twitter
Sends them a code to log in without Having to have the password or either They were able to do a password reset Through the phone number that's how they Got in okay now here's step two Step two is When your phone number is attached to Your Gmail account What you're able to do is do that same Kind of process on Gmail you're able to Go in And retrieve your pass your password Your account through your phone number Once they get access to your email They have everything credit.com you have A crypto.com account you have a coinbase Account if you have a Gemini account now I'm not sure about metamask I think Metamask is device specific and I don't Think you can do I I don't think it's Linked to an email I think if you forgot Password uh I think they want your seed Phrase or something like that they don't They don't want I don't think it's Attached emails so metamask probably Would have been safe okay All these other accounts I got money Floating around in They do the same thing they did on Twitter except now they have your email Now they go they hit forget password the Email the the new password request gets Sent to the email they have everything They can get in your bank account most
Likely they can get in your coinbase Account now if you have 2fa turned on And it's not phone number email Associated and you have an authenticator App A lot of these authenticator apps you Can actually recover as well with your Phone number but it takes 24 hours and So it's too long for this to happen so I Was able to save all my crypto because Of a video I made four and a half years Ago where I understood do not attach Your email account to your phone number I really started wondering man is my Phone actually secure and I started Digging around the old interwebs and Come to find out that I am not safe you Are not safe none of us are safe from SIM card hijacking there's nothing you Can do to prevent someone from being Able to steal your phone number if you Guys have a Gmail account or an email Account you need to go through and you Need to unplug your phone number if There's not an option to unattach it Then what you need to do is you need to Go to like GoDaddy smart line or there's Things called hotlines or Sidelines I Don't I would not suggest using Google Voice for this Find somewhere you can create a phone Number that's not attached to a major Carrier and then go put that in there as The phone number so that's the Saga
That's what happened over the weekend The fact is you have to neutralize the Threat because you cannot stop it so Basically what you have to do is you Have to build your life in a way so that If the hacker is able to get access to Your phone number that they're still not Going to be able to do anything with it Until next time big boy out Foreign Thank you