The computer pirates took control of the social media account of the Saudi Law Conference in X, used it to impersonate the crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman and promote fraudulent cryptocurrencies.
In a series of publications now eliminated, the scammers used the name and image of the heir prince, who serves as Prime Minister of Saudi Arabia, to promote an “official memecoin of Saudi Arabia”, as well as a “memecoin Falcon”. The positions were accompanied by contract addresses to identify the tokens.
It should be obvious. But in case it is not: the Saudilawconf Twitter has been pirate and reused, as confirmed in its Insta.
There is no official Saudi currency. pic.twitter.com/l8jdfiziuu
– Barry (@badlydrawnbarry) February 17, 2025
The conference, an important legal event in the country, confirmed on LinkedIn that the official X account was compromised and advised users that any “content published through the account does not represent our official opinions or positions in any way.”
“We confirm that we are urgently working to recover control of the account and give up all the responsibility of any unauthorized publication made during this period. We also apologize to our followers for any inconvenience that this can cause and urge everyone to have caution and refrain from interacting with any suspicious content published through the account to an additional warning, ”wrote the Conference of the Saudi Law.
The incident occurs in the midst of the controversy around the Argentine president Javier Milei on a post promoting a memory called Libra and its subsequent elimination.
Discharge of responsibility: The statements of the Saudi Law Conference for this article translated with the use of artificial intelligence.
