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The "vote for me" scam remains a major ongoing phishing issue on X as of March 16, 2026. It continues to spread through hacked accounts, leading to widespread takeovers where hackers quickly change the email, phone number, and sometimes the handle. This makes standard recovery very difficult or impossible for many users, as X's process relies heavily on those altered details. How the "Vote for Me" Scam Operates Scammers compromise an account (often through earlier phishing, reused passwords from breaches, or credential stuffing). They then use it to send direct messages (DMs) to followers or mutuals. Typical messages include: - "Hey, quick favor! I’m in the running to co-host a major podcast event with Spotify & Google. It’d mean a lot if you could drop a vote for me!" - Or similar urgent pleas like "Vote for me in this podcast/influencer contest before it ends today" with a link. The link (often shortened with X's t[.]co or suspicious domains like .fwh.is, .gt.tc, bestvotees[.]fwh[.]is, or fake voting sites) leads to a phishing page mimicking an X login or voting form. Entering credentials (or sometimes just loading the page) hands over access via stolen passwords, session tokens, or cookies. Once in control: - Hackers change the email and phone to ones they own. - They may add or take over 2FA. - The account starts auto-sending the same DMs to the new victim's network, turning it into a viral chain (like malware propagation). - Some pivot to posting crypto promotions, spam, or other scams. Reports show this has hit everyday users, verified accounts, journalists, coaches, athletes, celebrities, and more throughout early 2026. Victims often wake up to friends warning them or see their own account spamming others. If you get an unauthorized email change notification from verify@x.com early enough, you can sometimes revert it via a provided link, but speed is critical. Key Hacking and Recovery Challenges on X - **Fast alterations** — Hackers prioritize changing email/phone/handle to lock out the owner immediately. - **Recovery barriers** — X's hacked account forms require original contact info for verification. Once changed, appeals often fail or drag on with little response. Many users report repeated submissions with no fix, leading to permanent loss of accounts, content, connections, and features like monetization. - **No strong fallbacks** — There's limited use of immutable identifiers for proof of ownership, so proving "this was my original account" is tough without access to the updated details. - **Spread and scale** — The DM-based trust exploitation (from "friends") makes it highly effective and hard to contain. Even cautious users fall for it occasionally due to the social proof. Plea to Elon Musk and the X Team @elonmusk and @X: This persistent "vote for me" phishing wave and resulting account takeovers are damaging user trust and causing real harm, people are losing years of history, communities, and income with little recourse. The ease of changing core details (email, phone, handle) lets hackers lock owners out permanently, while recovery remains slow and ineffective via email. Please implement stronger safeguards urgently: - Lock the original handle and email used at creation (or allow easy reversion with robust proof). - Add a permanent, unchangeable account ID number visible to the owner for appeals and public, reference, and recovery verification — something hackers can't touch. - Improve hacked account reporting with faster manual reviews, better tools for cases where contact info was altered, and proactive detection of mass DM spam patterns. - Enhance link scanning in DMs to flag/warn about known phishing tactics and domains. - Provide clearer, quicker paths to reverse unauthorized changes. These changes would drastically reduce chain-reaction hacks and help restore confidence. @elonmusk @nikitabier @Safety