@beam Impersonation Attempt
@baem Ends in Permanent Ban
The person allegedly behind the fake
@beam username is an Indian scammer known as "Vir" (Slugma)
It is claimed he spent over $9,000 within a week to impersonate the trusted middleman
@beam using a highly convincing lookalike
@baem
After Beam and members of the OGU community reportedly contacted Pavel Durov, the fake username was permanently banned
@scholar later bought the banned username for $1,800, but after saying, "Beam is pissed at me, so I'll probably just give it to him," he decided to burn the username instead