{"id":64071,"date":"2026-03-21T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64071"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:41:24","slug":"the-vote-for-me-scam-how-to-lose-your-x-account-permanently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=64071","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;vote for me&#8221; scam: How to lose your X account permanently!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once you are hacked, you\u2019ll be PERMANENTLY locked out of your account because X support will refuse to give you your account back because your credentials don\u2019t match the scammers who currently control your account.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-vote-for-me-scam-how-to-lose\">https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-vote-for-me-scam-how-to-lose<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once you are hacked, you\u2019ll be PERMANENTLY locked out of your account because X support will refuse to give you your account back because your credentials don\u2019t match the scammers who currently control your account. Finish reading:\u00a0https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/stevekirsch\/p\/the-vote-for-me-scam-how-to-lose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64072,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64071\/revisions\/64072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}