A 17-year-old in Tampa, Florida, is being accused of taking over Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and numerous Twitter accounts of other celebrities to trick people into sending him Bitcoin. The teenager, whose name and photo CNBC is not publishing because he is a minor, was arrested and charged, …
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