Tactics of Fake Elons on X and Other Phony Clowns on This Platform

Since mid-January 2025, this platform has been overrun!

Overrun by fake Elon Musks, fake Maye Musks, and a ton of other pseudo-clowns!

The first thing you notice is their awful English.

Users who aren’t great at English often wonder what the hell DeepL is translating.

Or how.

At first, these fakes come off as friendly.

With lines like:

Or other fake celebs tried it with me like this:

They try to worm their way into your trust!

Sure, with the second example, I had to Google and ask Grok because that name meant absolutely nothing to me. I’m German and live in Germany.

I can’t and won’t know every damn celeb from the States!

That’s when it really starts.

It varies!

Some pseudos focus on isolating their chosen victims. For example, they badmouth friends.

Others start with love declarations that, in my eyes, are unbearably stupid.

After that, special images or videos of a certain body part usually follow.

As a woman, you have to look at this thing soberly or cold as ice.

Then there are the fake Elon Musks that start with isolation:

 This is how the isolation begins. 

If you ask the fake Elon a question, he tries to steer the conversation toward a sales pitch:

Some come with weird lists.

Others try begging for gift cards from Walmart (which hasn’t existed in Germany since 2006!) or Apple Cards. Spacex20068, for example, asked me for grocery gift cards when I told him Walmart doesn’t exist here.

Another one even wanted me to get an Apple Card. Spoiler: That’s not even a thing in Germany!

But they claimed it was possible!

Then there’s their endless hunt for Steam cards. In Germany, you can’t get those in the high amounts they want.

They don’t believe that either. Germany is just different from the USA! But they don’t get it!

I could list tons of examples, but what’s the point?

Will X finally wake up from its Sleeping Beauty slumber?

I’ve uncovered plenty of their behavior patterns, but does naming them make a difference?

When will someone finally take action?

I won’t post my chat logs or those of my friends online!

Embarrassingly, X can’t even manage to remove spacex20068 from the platform.

He had the same name on Telegram.

After a damn tough surgery, when I was still in the ICU, he wanted me to get up and buy him Apple Cards. All in the name of Elon Musk! 

He came to my friend with a stupid list, thinking she’d invest in some imaginary website he called his platform.

When we said no, he started writing in all caps, like “GO AWAY.”

Seriously, where was she supposed to go? She was at home on her couch. Should she have gone to the kitchen or the bathroom?

These fakes are ruining Elon Musk’s reputation!

Why does Elon Musk allow this?

Why? Can anyone explain that to me?

I have 202 saved chat logs with wannabe Elon Musks and a few other fake celebs.

I also have 19 chat logs from my best friend. She’s already fled from X but gave me her logs to use.

And a very long chat with a dear woman. She became homeless because of a fake claiming to be Elon Musk.

It really brings tears to my eyes. There are many familiar patterns, but also new ones I recognized.

I’m still translating them.

I won’t give X the name of this fake!

It’s apparently too hard for them to even ban spacex20068. That’s beyond embarrassing!

My trust has sunk into the negative.

Watch out for yourselves when you’re on platforms like X!

Translation assistance from grok.com