Graham Ivan Clark, 17, was arrested early on July 31 and charged with 30 felony charges over the scam, Hillsborough State Attorney Andrew Warren’s office said in a statement.

The Tampa teenager managed to gain access to numerous Twitter accounts, including those of former US President Barack Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, rapper Kanye West and his wife, model Kim Kardashian. 

He then posted tweets from many of the accounts claiming that they wanted to "give back to the community" and would double Bitcoin donations sent to an attached address.

Clark managed to collect more than $100,000 in Bitcoin in just one day, the attorney’s office confirmed.

While the probe into the scam was headed by the FBI and deals with federal crimes, the teen will be prosecuted by a Florida court, given that the state's law allows minors to be charged as adults in financial fraud cases.

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