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It sounds like a scam because I'm distilling all the things that told me it was a scam. I'm glad you can take what I'm tell you is a scam and say "yes thats a scam". Congrats?
Musk also does stupid stuff that loses money. He's (likely illegally) giving away money to buy votes in some states. Musk is also a known cryptobro. The idea that Musk would be giving away crypto to try to build influence or attention isn't far fetched.
I mean, "give access" and "double your bitcoin" are somewhat textbook phrases for scams...
Although, I def. see how one can miss it at first. I remember one bank scam call where the thing that ultimately clued me in was a rather unprofessional response along the lines of "don't call crying back to us" when I've said I'm a bit busy to go check the card or whatever they've asked to, while what should've done this in the 1st place was another textbooky "have u transfered any funds to Joe Shmoe". Looking back, would've been funy AF to pull the Karen on them 🥲
You're underscoring my point. I don't think either of those two exact phrases were use in the scam video. In my post I was communicating the paraphrased things they were saying. Its like you're finding the words in the word search because I circled them, then handed it to you, and you're saying "there's the word, its in the circle!".
I didn't commit to memory the exact language used because as soon as I figured out it was a scam I had no reason to remember their exact words. If you go looking you might find an example of the video. Its beyond my interest though.