The first known scam tweet was sent from Elon Musk's Twitter account at 20:17 UTC on July 15, 2020.[8] Other apparently compromised accounts included those of individuals such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, MrBeast, Michael Bloomberg,[2] Warren Buffett,[9] Floyd Mayweather,[4] Kim Kardashian, and Kanye West,[11][6] as well as companies like Apple, Uber, and Cash App.[12] A number of cryptocurrency Twitter accounts were also targeted, including the accounts of Coinbase, CoinDesk and Binance.[13] Most of the accounts that were accessed in the scam had at least a million followers.[2]