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At 2:05 AM UTC on March 21, Watcher Guru’s X account posted a fake update claiming SWIFT was finalizing a deal with Ripple to use XRP for global payments. The post said billions of XRP were locked in escrow to support this so-called partnership. The post was deleted within minutes, but not before it spread across Telegram, Discord, and Facebook through Watcher’s automated bot system. Shortly after, Watcher Guru explained what happened in a detailed thread on X. “Our X account was hacked today,” the post said. They confirmed they had already flagged suspicious behavior two weeks earlier and had contacted X’s cybersecurity team. But no one from the company responded. Attacker used Telegram link that mimicked official X domain On March 5, Watcher Guru received a message on Telegram. The person sent them a working x.com link that pointed to one of their older posts. But the team noticed something was off. The link looked legit, but it was from an X Developer staging site. It had a weird token string at the end—something not seen in standard X links. Even though the link used X’s actual domain, the team suspected something shady was going on. So they reached out to @cstanley, who is X’s head of cybersecurity. But they never got a reply. Then on March 21, just after 2 AM UTC, the fake post hit their feed. The message was written in a way that matched their usual “JUST IN” style alerts. That triggered their auto-posting system, which pushed it to all their other social media channels instantly. The message got maximum reach before it was taken down. Watcher Guru deleted the post within minutes, logged all devices out of their account, and changed passwords. But by then, the fake SWIFT-XRP story had already gone viral. According…

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