My Twitter account has been hacked. @LawrenceLepard on Twitter is not me. I have no idea how this happened. No information given. 2Fa on. They disabled 2fa, changed email, changed password. Another reason to ditch Twitter and go NOSTR! Second time, I mean WTF. DM security experts who can help with recovery. Ty.

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Chako Chino 10 months ago
Good to see you here Mr Lepard. Have been enjoying your book and your recent appearances on numerous podcasts. Hope you spend more time here. All the best with sorting out X.
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Edmond Dantes⚡ 10 months ago
I am mostly a lurker on both X and here (don't care about follower count), but I am finding that it won't be long before I never go back to see what's happening on the ad riddled and scammy X. BTW . . . great new book!
You need to have the green cloud in the picture to be Grey with a Line going thru it - means it's turned off and only on your phone so, it's not sync with Google cloud image
I used to think that but then I changed my name to Lawrence Lepard and everything was wavy.
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Ploughboy 10 months ago
I didn’t think it was you but then he dropped a f-bomb and I wasn’t sure. Kidding. Sorry brother.
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Don Aristides 10 months ago
Thankfully, most of your followers should be sharp enough to catch on.
I was sim swapped. It was a T-Mobile employee. My phone still worked but some accounts I had were compromised. It was weird. I'd assume it's an inside job. From within X. Someone was social engineered, had their laptop stolen or something where they had access to the database of X. Anyway. I'm reminded of this: Mat 7:15-19 KJV ¶Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? 17. Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. 18. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 19. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Shared using AndBible: Bible Study. (https://andbible.github.io) So regardless whether it is real Larry or Fake Larry it (The Words) is bad fruit then it's no good and should be disregarded. E.G. How do we know it is real or not? X is no good anyway. I will pray that you get back on course with minimal damage.
Your X profile is saying you got your account back? Is this true?
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My Twitter account has been hacked. @LawrenceLepard on Twitter is not me. I have no idea how this happened. No information given. 2Fa on. They disabled 2fa, changed email, changed password. Another reason to ditch Twitter and go NOSTR! Second time, I mean WTF. DM security experts who can help with recovery. Ty.
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R 10 months ago
Sorry that happened. I’d say shut it down, but since I will only ever see your notes on nostr and never in X, that’s easy for me to say. Might be fun though to find out how many will come here if they know it’s the only place to find you.
It happened to me two years ago, after I opened a doctored message. I contacted the Twitter assistance. I had to answer some verification questions. Once I regained access I opted for a 2FA based on Yubikeys.
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Bacon Hodl 10 months ago
I thought this was your second go round with account hijacking on Xitter. The larger, the more influential the account, the larger the target becomes for public diminishment or reputation smearing. Sorry this is happening to you Larry.
This is a sign to go Nostr only my friend. It will keep happening...do you really want the hassle. Follow @Jeff Booth example and ditch X. Cold Turkey
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Benjamin 10 months ago
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SaM sam@zaps.lol 10 months ago
Same happened to me. Keep emailing to support for two weeks already, no help
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npub1zrxc...s2lx 10 months ago
When referring someone to the correct direction, I can only talk about harveykelvin778@gmail.com you will get help with a guaranteed service.
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bc21 10 months ago
STAY HUMBLE AND STACK ZAPS ON NOSTR LARRY!
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Lostdog 10 months ago
Potential cause: many people sync their 2FA to the cloud. On Android this is even the default 😖, not sure about iOS. As a result, your cloud account becomes the weakest link and a hacker only needs access to that in order to gain access to all your accounts, including 2FA. An alternative is X staff messing around. Their security and customer support staff have been slashed in the name of "efficiency" Best long term fix: ditch X, embrace nostro
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BTC Freedom 10 months ago
Hope you can figure this out soon. It must feel horrible. Nostr is the future 🫡
Sh*t. Horrible timing. It’s a tough call while we try to straddle both platforms while this one ramps up. I feel like I’m posting into the abyss here so far. But it’s where I’d prefer to be.
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npub10pja...5z7c 10 months ago
There are still a couple of obvious impersonators accounts on X fyi