Crypto traders lost an estimated $10million over the weekend that Elon Musk made his appearance on SNL, a financial expert claims.
The Tesla CEO, 49, hosted Saturday Night Live on May 8 and across the weekend beginning May 7.
People trading crypto currencies were tricked by a scam involving verified Twitter accounts, which had been hacked, impersonating celebrities, Business Insider reports.
These hacked accounts promoted offers to people promising crypto currency in exchange for an initial crypto investment.
Crypto traders lost an estimated $10million over the weekend that Elon Musk made his appearance on SNL (pictured), a financial expert claims
Sarang Naram, a research engineer at cyber-exposure firm Tenable, claims that as much as $10million was harvested by scammers - with the people behind snlmusk.com taking almost $150,000 of ethereum, bitcoin and dogecoin.