My Opinion on Fakes and the Damage They Cause on WhatsApp, Telegram, and X

Fakes are not just annoying – they destroy lives, reputations, and trust.
On WhatsApp and Telegram, they operate almost unchecked: mass video calls, fake giveaways, pig-butchering scams, romance fraud. 
Victims lose thousands of euros, their savings, sometimes everything. 
People like me have to spend 400 euros on a new phone and new number just to escape the harassment. 
Real financial and emotional damage – and nobody compensates the victims. 
Many can’t afford expensive civil lawsuits or, like me, get a letter from the public prosecutor saying the case has been dropped.
Here are just three media examples showing how real the damage is:
  • A 76-year-old woman loses 18,000 euros to a fake Elon Musk in a love scam ZEIT article.
  • A 43-year-old woman pays around 12,000 euros to a scammer pretending to be Elon Musk Stern article.
  • Overview of common Elon Musk scam tactics with phishing and investment traps Watchlist Internet.
On X, the fakes are visible and get deleted faster when reported (I’ve experienced it myself – accounts gone in 2 hours). 
But the real damage happens off-platform: the lures lead to WhatsApp and Telegram, where the actual theft takes place.
The DSA collects millions from Elon Musk – but does anything against the real scam hotspots? Apparently not. The actual victims get nothing.
Elon Musk’s reputation is systematically destroyed by thousands of impersonators – and apparently nobody in politics cares.
This is not fair. Not democratic. And not just.
The platforms where the real fraud happens get a free pass – while X is punished for problems it didn’t create and is actively fighting.
That’s the bitter reality.
More on this in my earlier posts:
Stay vigilant out there.

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