Jeanie Buss, the proprietor of the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers, had her Twitter account hacked earlier to day as a part of a PlayStation 5 rip-off.

Over the afternoon her account despatched out a tweet promising that she, the multi-millionaire proprietor of probably the most marketable sports activities manufacturers on your complete planet, had three PlayStation 5 consoles she was going to be promoting for charity. Which appeared like they had been sitting on her kitchen ground. By way of her DMs.

The whole tweet was in fact a pink flag—which charity? the place’s the capitalisation?—and anybody truly messaging her account on twitter shortly after was directed to ship cash to a random Zelle account, after which their “delivery label can be created” (it could by no means be created).

A transparent and apparent rip-off, then, however Buss has 430,000 followers on Twitter, so who is aware of, perhaps a few of them truly fell for it. Locked out of her account by the hack, Buss needed to leap on the workforce’s official comms to get the phrase out and warn followers to not ship any cash.

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Lakers Fans, my Twitter account has been hacked. Please do not engage with it or send any money. These are NOT legitimate offers. The Lakers will alert you when I am back in control of my account – Jeanie Buss

She eventually regained control of her account and deleted the scam tweet, but not before some folks had some fun with it, using the scam as an opportunity to shake up the Laker’s ageing, busted, top-heavy roster. That is Buttcrack Sports activities with the very best try at getting Russell Westbrook off the workforce I’m but to see this offseason:

In the event you’d like a PlayStation 5 by means of extra typical means, you need to in all probability simply attempt to purchase one, particularly since Sony is lastly going to have the ability to get some out the door this vacation season.